(EDIT) And here is the Rock, Paper, Shotgun version. They seem to be a bit more willing to take Frontier to task over this, as opposed to PC Gamer, which just seems to be more interested in reporting as is, rather than editorializing about it. And the comments under there are just as negative to this overall as they are at PC Gamer, which is nice ( Read more... )

Of course he's going to say that. Doesn't make it true, and I'm still not buying his game explicitly because of it.

And here is the Rock, Paper, Shotgun version of the previous post. The comments under that are also largely negative about this change, with the occasional defender throwing in their worthless two cents, of course.

This was yet another one of those games that I'd been seriously eying as a potential purchase, but now won't be touching with a ten- ( Read more... )

News like this makes me glad I didn't back this game, and if I had backed it, I'd definitely be asking for a full refund. And now I won't even be buying the finished product when it comes out, though I'd already been somewhat leery of it to begin with ( Read more... )

As I said in my comment over there in owsf2000's LJ, I'm just going to put up a link here to his post and just say THIS.

DLC has indeed simply become yet another form of DRM. That, more than any other consideration, is why it's so prevalent these days, even and especially when it's "free." (And of course the comment section under the article is filled ( Read more... )

Good luck with that, EFF. More power to you. Forgive me if I don't hold my breath on this, though.

Yeah, and I wonder how many legitimate customers have been hit with this anti-piracy measure (assuming it is indeed a legitimate anti-piracy measure and not just the more typical case of EA screwing something up). If the answer is "more than zero," then this is a failed anti-piracy measure, in my eyes ( Read more... )

I never really cared all that much about Twitch before, and I'm not going to start now, thanks to stuff like this. I just wonder if this sudden move has anything to do with them potentially being bought by Google. (EDIT) Looks like the deal did go through, so I'm pretty sure that this is indeed related to that. (/EDIT) I will say that this is ( Read more... )

A few days ago, EA announced that they were making "The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection" available for free. The catch, however, which EA neglected to mention, was that it contains SecuROM. So, just to be clear, it has SecuROM in addition to being tied to their crappy Origin "service ( Read more... )

*facepalm*

Yeah... that's about all I have to say about that.