Well, Deepsivler, Egosoft and Tages all profit from sales so I feel just fine being annoyed with all three of them. Though I must admit that I feel mainly annoyed with Deepsilver because I know that they’re probably the main culprit. I’m not sure how much muscle Egosoft have seeing as the X series are quite niche games by their nature. Tages are a just a company that prays on the gullibility and stupidity of publishers, in this case Deepsilver. Plus this level of DRM is too much hassle and won’t always be around, Tages’ days are numbered. I’m being soft on Egosoft because in fairness they do offer a very good service in terms of updates and free enhancements to games.Socrates wrote:To be angry is easy. To be angry with the right person, at the right time, about the right thing, and in the right amount, that is the challenge.
You’ve got to love the oxymoron of the logic though: A publisher pays a company to implement a DRM system to stop pirates, pirates hack and remove DRM so it’s no longer a problem for anyone who illegally downloads the game. The DRM system massively annoys the paying customer. The next time an interesting game come along with the same DRM the paying customer won’t be burned twice and becomes a pirate.
I would have really liked to have played X3 this morning though when I dragged myself out of bed. I’m hoping that a) Tages staff are back at work tomorrow and reboot the server and b) enough people have complained that deepsilver will be a little more customer focused in future.
On the plus side I ended up getting bored and bought Portal via Steam (dead cheap as well) Didn’t think I’d like it but it’s actually a really clever game. Weird as hell though. “The cake is a lie.”