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Here is an article, written back in August of 2015, that I found while doing searches for "video game industry crash," after writing a comment in response to owsf2000's newest post about the state of the video game industry. I think it's a pretty good article, and one that I could have ( and indeed probably already have) written myself.

Yeah... this thing sounds like absolute shit. :(

Since I've already said most of what I feel the need to say about this over there in owsf2000's post on the subject, I'll just link to that and be done with it.

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Here's another one via owsf2000 to which I can do little more than simply say "This" in response.

(EDIT) They've already updated the installer for the Double Dragon games to make the Galaxy client actually optional. Why this wasn't the case already, and why the Galaxy client was originally hidden in the installer for these games, I don't know (though I have theories as to why, and I'm sure you can guess what they are), but there you go. As ( Read more... )

"We're still going to look at how to do [an offline mode]. You know, It's not off the table. We just can't promise it, and that's caused a lot of people to get very angry. I am always upset when people are [angry]-especially when they've backed us-but we had a vision and we're trying to stick as closely to that vision as possible, which is to do ( Read more... )

Link.

You know, in case you're one of the few on my LJ friends list who isn't also on owsf2000's, for whatever reason, or else otherwise missed it. Essentially, he sums up most of the reasons why I give almost no fucks whatsoever about modern video games anymore.

As they fucking well should. Of course, the way Braben is talking, he makes it seem more like he's magnanimously extending a bothersome and unnecessary boon to the peasants rallying at his castle gates with torches and pitchforks, rather than admitting that it was a thing they should have been doing in the goddamn first place. Oh well, better ( Read more... )

I used to be amused by this sort of thing, but no more. This is just DRM, same as SecuROM and same as always online, no matter how cutesy they try to be when they implement it. And, just like any other DRM, if this crap ends up adversely affecting even one legitimate customer (and in at least some of those cases, it definitely already has), then ( Read more... )