Re:Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
by raylu on Thursday March 07, 2013 @11:07PM
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EA is also actively working on making things less bad by provisioning more hardware and disabling "non-critical" features.
DRM is DRM. People only get angry when things don't work, with the occasional philosophical argument thrown in to prove a point after the fact.
Steam gets less hate only because their servers have better uptime, but the hate towards EA comes in the form of a philosophical argument about how DRM is fundamentally broken.
Re:Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
by pdwetz on Friday March 08, 2013 @12:04AM
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Ultimately I think users are pragmatic; if DRM stays out of the way they won't care, and that's by-and-large how Steam is for most people. They also seem to focus on value-add items, such as being able to install (easily!) on multiple computers, operating systems, etc., whereas EA and other companies seem to provide more pain than pleasure. If a company appears to be trying to help people, they'll lovingly hand over their money. If a company seems to be only interested in their wallets, twitter and message boards will not be kind.
1) You can play most of games offline if you have a flaky connection; 2) They don't have a standard practice of turning off servers to 'obsolete' games, unlike EA. The Steam games are expected to work as long as Steam itself works; but SimCity most likely won't work much longer after the next SimCity is released, as we can see from EA current practices.