QNX had this back in the 90's. I laughed at people shuffling a WordPerfect legal document around between 5 secretaries and having to combine their edits and get the document out before the end of the night. They could have done it in a fifth of the time had they used QNX and this awesome work process (who's name now escape me). It used QNX's message passing architecture to work it's magic. It was truly neat watching edits to a document occur in real-time - and this was back in 1991.
'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud...'...and the ship is unsinkable, the volcano is dormant, the electronic voting system is un-hackable, and that really popular operating system doesn't totally suck.
Hell, I've been playing games since I was ten back when Pong was first released on a home system. Sure I've beaten the piss out of a few tennis players now and then but they deserved it. But this doesn't mean I'm going to go around smacking up gorillas, plumbers, or busting ghosts. Common! Man this just urks me. That's it, I'm gunna find me some dinosaurs and do some damage!
I'm writing to tell you how displeased and disappointed I am in EA's decision to include DRM in the game, Spore. Normally, having to spend $50+ dollars on a game and having to always keep the CD handy and inserted for game play is annoying enough, but from what I'm reading on many sites, your DRM limits the number of game installs and installs itself as a root kit and is impossible to uninstall without wiping out Windows and all my data. What's wrong with you people? Do you seriously think all of the people that buy and play your games are thieves? Apparently so.
I read somewhere that the Spore DRM was already hacked and bypassed so all you are doing is punishing honest game players with invasive/deceptive software and treating us all like criminals. Hey people, the criminals are playing the UNPROTECTED HACKED version of Spore for free while I am deciding NOT to pay $60 for Spore because of the DRM. Do us honest people a favor and get rid of the DRM, lower the price of the game, and maybe turn a few game pirates into honest people for a change. You are just shooting yourselves in the collective foot (as it were).
My 7 years son is now VERY sad because I told him the game wouldn't run on our PC or the PS3 we own. Had you released the game for the PS3, I'd happily shell out $40 for it. I'm sure the 10+ million (or is it 100+ million) other PS3 owners around the globe would too.
Just answer me two simple questions.
1. Are your executives THAT incredibly stupid?
2. Can I have a job as an executive because I am more than qualified to make these incredibly bad decisions.
Thanks for not listening (which I'm sure you're not).
p.s. I wonder if the creator of Spore wanted to spend six years developing a game than only a handful of people would play because a game publisher/distributor is greedy and stupid? I'll probably never know.
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QNX kernel was less than 8K back in the day. It's probably 10K today.
QNX had this back in the 90's. I laughed at people shuffling a WordPerfect legal document around between 5 secretaries and having to combine their edits and get the document out before the end of the night. They could have done it in a fifth of the time had they used QNX and this awesome work process (who's name now escape me). It used QNX's message passing architecture to work it's magic. It was truly neat watching edits to a document occur in real-time - and this was back in 1991.
'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud...' ...and the ship is unsinkable, the volcano is dormant, the electronic voting system is un-hackable, and that really popular operating system doesn't totally suck.
Hell, I've been playing games since I was ten back when Pong was first released on a home system. Sure I've beaten the piss out of a few tennis players now and then but they deserved it. But this doesn't mean I'm going to go around smacking up gorillas, plumbers, or busting ghosts. Common! Man this just urks me. That's it, I'm gunna find me some dinosaurs and do some damage!
I'm writing to tell you how displeased and disappointed I am in EA's decision to include DRM in the game, Spore. Normally, having to spend $50+ dollars on a game and having to always keep the CD handy and inserted for game play is annoying enough, but from what I'm reading on many sites, your DRM limits the number of game installs and installs itself as a root kit and is impossible to uninstall without wiping out Windows and all my data. What's wrong with you people? Do you seriously think all of the people that buy and play your games are thieves? Apparently so. I read somewhere that the Spore DRM was already hacked and bypassed so all you are doing is punishing honest game players with invasive/deceptive software and treating us all like criminals. Hey people, the criminals are playing the UNPROTECTED HACKED version of Spore for free while I am deciding NOT to pay $60 for Spore because of the DRM. Do us honest people a favor and get rid of the DRM, lower the price of the game, and maybe turn a few game pirates into honest people for a change. You are just shooting yourselves in the collective foot (as it were). My 7 years son is now VERY sad because I told him the game wouldn't run on our PC or the PS3 we own. Had you released the game for the PS3, I'd happily shell out $40 for it. I'm sure the 10+ million (or is it 100+ million) other PS3 owners around the globe would too. Just answer me two simple questions. 1. Are your executives THAT incredibly stupid? 2. Can I have a job as an executive because I am more than qualified to make these incredibly bad decisions. Thanks for not listening (which I'm sure you're not). p.s. I wonder if the creator of Spore wanted to spend six years developing a game than only a handful of people would play because a game publisher/distributor is greedy and stupid? I'll probably never know.