arstechnica.com — Microsoft sat down with Ars at GDC 2009 to announce its upcoming additions to the Games for Windows platform, along with more protection for publishers. They want you to know that this isn't DRM, and they don't think you're a bad person. They just want you to buy the games.
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Closed AccountMar 25, 2009
Windows Live = DRM
misterfizzleMar 25, 2009
Sounds like DRM to me.Since there is a bypass method, somebody will find a way to hack it.
lilrabbitfoofooMar 26, 2009
Steam games are cracked the moment they are pre-downloaded. Would YOU like to tell everyone how it's done? I don't. 8P
cryoniqMar 26, 2009
"They just want you to buy the games."And we just want them to lower the prices down to around 1/10-1/20 of the price today.Wonder when they going to start realise that they just throw money into the abyss developing more DRM mechs.
genmaMar 26, 2009
what trade-off? just back them up and play offline, you can burn/archive whatever you want, all the games distributed on steam are portable standalone versions that need no install. you only need the client, you don't actually have to connect. if you save your user key locally you could play any single player games without connecting.this is why steam is not so hated among gamers, they actually think about s**t like this in advance, not waiting till they f**k over enough people to make it a pr issue.
Closed AccountMar 26, 2009
For you and I, that's a simple task Genma. For other gamers it's not that simple. If Steam goes offline and customers want to use their backed up copy on another machine, most people wont know how to add information to their registry if the game requires it. I don't see what you mean by portable standalone version. You download the full game unpacked, not a packaged install file, with the settings installed on the system. This is not the same is having a hard copy in the form of a CD or even a portable copy in the form of an image file. The customer remains dependent on Steam if they wish to play their purchased games on other machines.
surfingmonkeyMar 26, 2009
Read about the Steam owner presentation regarding price drops = higher sales. (They went through the roof.) When I read Left 4 Dead was on sale for 20$ I headed to steam. Found out that it was back to its 50$ price tag, logged out and forgot about it.
sil3ncerMar 27, 2009
If it FRUSTRATES like DRM, LIMITS like DRM, and FUNCTIONS like DRM, then It Must BE DRM.
yournamehereMar 29, 2009
I'm using Vista and Windows 7 and Vista has been extremely stable since SP1. The fact still remains that Windows 7 is built on the Vista core. They were asked that outright and that was the answer they gave. Windows 7 is what Vista should have been at the point of it's release.
rockleemanMar 19, 2010
yea... <a class="user" href="http://www.myideason.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.myideason.com</a>