this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
67 points (95.9% liked)
PC Gaming
8573 readers
267 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why on this overwhelmingly zealous communist site are people upvoting this bullheaded victim blaming free hand of the market put down of consumers?
If you were paying attention you'd know the campaign is as interested in data preservation as it is the consumer-product experience. Troves of games and the art and effort behind them are being lost in a black hole because of these DRM problems. In a chicken and egg problem of this kind of abuse having always been the norm for customers because of our antiquated copyright systems you are mad at games preservationists for being hungry.
Moreover how did Ubisoft and these other companies who abuse these practices get those reputations? Oh yeah that's right, by butt fucking people dry in the first place. Everyone has to have their own bad experience or read about one in the first place before they make it an axe to grind. You've definitely been burnt by these practices at least once and learned better right? So why should we not lobby for change?
Like who are you Ubisoft Man?
If you complain about Windows having ads, telemetry, and security concerns on this site, you will be told to install Linux. They're not using a bullheaded victim blaming free hand of the market put down of consumers. They're telling you there is an alternative that has what you want. You don't need the government to regulate operating systems. You can just install any one of the many Linux distros.
This is the exact same thing. Stop buying video games with anti-consumer DRM. Video games without these features already exist and are actually the norm. It really isn't complicated.
Yes. I loved the Hitman series. It now has always online DRM. I haven't bought a Hitman game since 2012. My life hasn't been affected negatively in any way. I still have a huge library and backlog of other games without DRM. What would I lobby the government for? Remove DRM from Hitman? What a terribly insignificant thing to concern myself with. I have a backlog of other games to catch up on.