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[vombatus]

I have just read a rant on arstechnica about how great the current gaming industry is and how everybody is complaining about and how unfair it is. Since joining the comment fray seems silly and dangerous for sanity, but the desire to vent is strong, I will list my personal peeves here, where I can only annoy a few people. Today's gaming industry is

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[dimmaster]

Just wanted to add my 2 cents.

I wrote two pages after reading the article, then deleted the whole thing cause it's same old complaining.

But in the process I figured out the tendency of golden age of games - spend more money on DRM than on the game itself, punish all those who gonna pay us money with our new creative way to fight piracy. And all this have to last only the first two weeks, because after that most of the DRMs gets broken anyway, and the sales tend to slow down.

I have to mention that I haven't played most of the recent games. Last thing I played was Dragon Age, which I abandoned half way cause of boring gameplay. I was waiting for SW Old Republic to come out, but after EA announced presale for $60 + monthly subscription and no actual release date, I lost fate in the game.

[vombatus]

Well, like it or not, $60 seems to be the new price for a new releases of a major game titles. The part that bugs me is Blizzard's "if you want to play Starcraft 2 with your girlfriend in the same apartment it will require an internet connection, be slow as hell because both sessions will go through our servers and cost you $120" attitude.

[dimmaster]

And it's not only Blizzard, although they were the first to charge $60 for the title, before SC2 $39.95 was standard price for a PC release.
Also $60 bucks for a MMO is just plain greedy(even Blizzard didn't do that), they want monthly sub fee in addition to this.

It seems that publishers have realized that one mistake, one bad review and their game will be mostly pirated, so they are trying to milk it for what it's worth without making proper effort to promote legit sales by making quality and easy to use product.

And it's sad that when I actually have disposable capital to buy games - I get discouraged by these ridiculous policies. And $60 bucks is still a lot of beer.