In a drunk fit last night I actually sent a rant to them about it, I don't remember what I said exactly but I pointed out that DRM has actually driven me to download games instead of pay for them and if I couldn't expect to defeat the copy protection bullshit then I just wouldn't play the game.
Nothing no one's thought or said before, but I'm sure if enough gaming curmudgeons drank enough smirnoff ice at the same time while listening to EBM then there would surely be a rival to the mass mailing botnets that don't actually have anything useful to tell anyone.
It's freaking hot in here and Qwerty pisses me off. I'm going to drink some vinegar and go to bed.
I don't play a whole lot of games, and I'm not proud to say it, but the ones I have played I've either downloaded, borrowed from friends, or got it cheap at second-hand retailers. Mostly downloaded. In fact, the only three games I ever bought new were for friends.
I don't get a whole lot of money. I get SSI and I'm in college right now. I could save money to buy games, but I have more beneficial things I'll put my money towards until I do have a good paying job.
I'm not proud, but I also have no regrets. As the... 'industry' has changed, it's become too much of a gamble. I've seen really good reviews for games, downloaded them, played them all the way through, and thought to myself, "what an awful piece of shit that was, why did I choose to waste my time on it?".
I think Timeshock in particular was one game that made me angry. I heard good things, I saw some good reviews, so I downloaded it and played it, and it was just a completely terrible game. It makes me happy I didn't pay for the game. I don't want Sierra to get that 50 dollars for that garbage.
I suppose I could do what other people say they do and buy it after I decide I like it, but the only game I ever played more than once was Half Life 2, and my friend bought it for me on Steam so I could play HL2DM. Oh, and VTM Bloodlines, and that was also given to me.
There's some good games that stand up and make it and keep making it, but it's painful to see games, like Bloodlines, such incredibly awesome games by incredibly awesome designers go bankrupt or bought out by some horrid producer.
The real enemy to me in gaming is demographics. Unfortunately, the percentage of people I'm forced to share audience with is growing more and more into boneheads and action lusting morons who like gibs and explosions and cheap code tricks everyone and their pocket change label as "technology". I really hate that word, it's so disgusting to see how it's used.
I'm tired and I'm frustrated from typing on Qwerty. Whatever, I don't even know what the Hell I'm saying. I'm doped out on codeine and I had a nasal polypectomy yesterday.
I don't see why the company is trying so hard to suppress this. It's not like it's their fault, they could easily just blame their customers for misusing the device.
If they just (successfully) dropped the blame on the law enforcement and campus cops and civilians for misusing the device, it would actually help them and the people that might some day get hurt.
By trying to make their device seem somehow less dangerous, they're doing the most irresponsible thing.
There's also no point to this approach, there's no telling anyone who knows the least about the effects of electricity on the human body that it's not going to ever kill people.
A 9 volt battery can easily kill a person if the resistance of the skin is defeated, and tens of thousands of volts has no problem overcoming that resistance.
Maybe it's about time someone designed a full-body faraday shield for those average, every day people who do nothing wrong to run around in all day so they won't have to worry about some asshole cop believing tasers are magical tools that harmlessly make people stop 'resisting arrest'.
Couldn't they just make a copy of the 'locked' chip (I'd never believe it would work like they say) and intercept the information sent to the chip, and just play that back to the copies?
I don't know how this chip copying works, but if they stick it under a microscope or something and copy it straight from that, then shouldn't they have the resources to bypass the 'lock' anyways?
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In a drunk fit last night I actually sent a rant to them about it, I don't remember what I said exactly but I pointed out that DRM has actually driven me to download games instead of pay for them and if I couldn't expect to defeat the copy protection bullshit then I just wouldn't play the game.
Nothing no one's thought or said before, but I'm sure if enough gaming curmudgeons drank enough smirnoff ice at the same time while listening to EBM then there would surely be a rival to the mass mailing botnets that don't actually have anything useful to tell anyone.
It's freaking hot in here and Qwerty pisses me off. I'm going to drink some vinegar and go to bed.
Well, from what we've seen out of Microsoft so far, how ridiculous would it be for them to sabotage one flagship product to sell another?
I don't play a whole lot of games, and I'm not proud to say it, but the ones I have played I've either downloaded, borrowed from friends, or got it cheap at second-hand retailers. Mostly downloaded. In fact, the only three games I ever bought new were for friends.
I don't get a whole lot of money. I get SSI and I'm in college right now. I could save money to buy games, but I have more beneficial things I'll put my money towards until I do have a good paying job.
I'm not proud, but I also have no regrets. As the... 'industry' has changed, it's become too much of a gamble. I've seen really good reviews for games, downloaded them, played them all the way through, and thought to myself, "what an awful piece of shit that was, why did I choose to waste my time on it?".
I think Timeshock in particular was one game that made me angry. I heard good things, I saw some good reviews, so I downloaded it and played it, and it was just a completely terrible game. It makes me happy I didn't pay for the game. I don't want Sierra to get that 50 dollars for that garbage.
I suppose I could do what other people say they do and buy it after I decide I like it, but the only game I ever played more than once was Half Life 2, and my friend bought it for me on Steam so I could play HL2DM. Oh, and VTM Bloodlines, and that was also given to me.
There's some good games that stand up and make it and keep making it, but it's painful to see games, like Bloodlines, such incredibly awesome games by incredibly awesome designers go bankrupt or bought out by some horrid producer.
The real enemy to me in gaming is demographics. Unfortunately, the percentage of people I'm forced to share audience with is growing more and more into boneheads and action lusting morons who like gibs and explosions and cheap code tricks everyone and their pocket change label as "technology". I really hate that word, it's so disgusting to see how it's used.
I'm tired and I'm frustrated from typing on Qwerty. Whatever, I don't even know what the Hell I'm saying. I'm doped out on codeine and I had a nasal polypectomy yesterday.
I don't see why the company is trying so hard to suppress this. It's not like it's their fault, they could easily just blame their customers for misusing the device.
If they just (successfully) dropped the blame on the law enforcement and campus cops and civilians for misusing the device, it would actually help them and the people that might some day get hurt.
By trying to make their device seem somehow less dangerous, they're doing the most irresponsible thing.
There's also no point to this approach, there's no telling anyone who knows the least about the effects of electricity on the human body that it's not going to ever kill people.
A 9 volt battery can easily kill a person if the resistance of the skin is defeated, and tens of thousands of volts has no problem overcoming that resistance.
Maybe it's about time someone designed a full-body faraday shield for those average, every day people who do nothing wrong to run around in all day so they won't have to worry about some asshole cop believing tasers are magical tools that harmlessly make people stop 'resisting arrest'.
(first time posting because I'm bored)
Couldn't they just make a copy of the 'locked' chip (I'd never believe it would work like they say) and intercept the information sent to the chip, and just play that back to the copies?
I don't know how this chip copying works, but if they stick it under a microscope or something and copy it straight from that, then shouldn't they have the resources to bypass the 'lock' anyways?