Actually this is not the first time eve will be distributed in boxes. When they launched in 2003 Eve was distributed by Simon & Schuster Interactive. After a few months CCP purchased back the rights for distribution from them, since they found out that the digital downloads from their own site greatly outnumbered the physical copies sold and thought that they can manage much better on they own( Quite correct I may say they are alive and growing 6 years after that)
Unfortunately, those are few and far between. I can accept games like Supreme Commander, which are initially copy-protected, but which have the protection removed by the game developers themselves afterward (as the DRM is usually demanded by the publisher, not the developers).
You should try Sins of a Solar Empire. Stardock promised to release the game without any copy protection and they kept their promise.
Actually, it turned out to become one of my alltime favourite games.
I remember reading a great article about it in ars
exactly when the whole **it with spore and amazon just happend:)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/09/05/solar-empire-moves-500-000-units
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Actually this is not the first time eve will be distributed in boxes. When they launched in 2003 Eve was distributed by Simon & Schuster Interactive. After a few months CCP purchased back the rights for distribution from them, since they found out that the digital downloads from their own site greatly outnumbered the physical copies sold and thought that they can manage much better on they own( Quite correct I may say they are alive and growing 6 years after that)
and only purchasing DRM-free games.
Unfortunately, those are few and far between. I can accept games like Supreme Commander, which are initially copy-protected, but which have the protection removed by the game developers themselves afterward (as the DRM is usually demanded by the publisher, not the developers).
You should try Sins of a Solar Empire. Stardock promised to release the game without any copy protection and they kept their promise. Actually, it turned out to become one of my alltime favourite games. I remember reading a great article about it in ars exactly when the whole **it with spore and amazon just happend :)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/09/05/solar-empire-moves-500-000-units