Prince of Eckmühl
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Well, let's go back to the top of the thread, shall we? quote:
ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm Norb said yesterday over on the SOWGB forum: "I fully expect to remove the drm stuff at some point. I like to do that once we're done with it ourselves." Just thought I'd pass this along to anyone who has been holding back because of the activation DRM. I ASS-U-ME that a spokesman for the game actually made the comment that's attributed to "Norb." With that proviso, let's take a moment to analyze its import to our readers and their reaction... On the one hand, you have folks who won't buy a game that employs the type of DRM adopted by the developer/publisher. As near as I can tell, their response to the announcement is 100% positive. Several posters have indicated that they read the thread because they believed that it meant that the DRM scheme really was being abandoned, HUZZAH! Likewise, they expressed a degree of disappointment when further examination of the several posts revealed that its departure was being delayed. Good enough, right? Well, apparently that's not the reaction that some fans of this new game were looking for... What exactly do you guys want? NSW has said that it is considering abandoning its DRM scheme at some point in the future. Does that not imply that the developer/publisher believes that it may be(come) unnecessary? Likewise, is it not a tacit recognition and admission of the fact that there is a pool of gamers, unknown in number, who won't pay for the use of software that they may lose access to at some point in the future, particularly if the business concern in question fails? Or was there some other motive behind posting this news to the Matrix Games' forum?
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