![]() ![]() And it's nothing that can be avoided since it's the one way in which copyright law works in the first place. There are ten thousand unethical lawyer out there who have, in the past, happily taken every legal precedent to abuse the law in order to extort.Īnd what it also unavoidably means is that if I install a Blizzard game Blizzard suddenly owns my computer. If they succeed in this it doesn't matter if their intentions are as pure as the driven snow. But in this case? Blizzard is also saying they OWN what takes place on SOMEONE ELSES HARDWARE. See, if Blizzard simply banned the account of the cheater, that's a clear-cut use of ToS. That means in order to have even one legal leg to stand on, Blizzard must first determine that the computer user is not the owner of the hardware or the blizzard-unaffiliated third-party application. See, from what I know of the situation, Blizzard are having the issue because a third-party application which resides in memory can intercept a game client instruction which says the map is "hidden" and convert it to one which says the map is "revealed". No, I'm afraid I'm NOT making the issue bigger. It's not like VN companies are known to last for decades. ![]() Particularly those, which relies on some server to keep running. Obviously a DRM free disc made it online in no time.Īs for VNs with DRM: avoid it at all cost. There was even a case where a company only put DRM on some of the discs to save money on DRM fees. It's used for totally other purposes, which I read once, but right now I can't remember why. You might have a data cap, but that's your problem.ĭRM is not in the interest of the user and it often does very little in regards to pirating the game. Also they update using a bittorrent system and since it's their files on your HD, they distribute their files without directly informing you. You also accepting that updates can change minimum system requirements and there is no compensation if an update prevents your from playing on your current hardware. You are not allowed to prevent an update. Since they own it, they can decide if it should be updated or not. You rent it for that one time fee you paid to get it. Have you even read the EULA for StarCraft 2? It says you don't own the copy of the game on your HD. Always online is an approach to planned obsolescence, hence pushing people on to the market to buy new games.Īnother issue regarding anti-cheat/copy protection is what Blizzard is doing. It is also a gamble that the server will keep running and in addition to companies going bust, there are some, which shut down servers because "not enough are playing the game anymore". It turns out that a lot of people are actually NOT online at the location where they want to play. It's a complete mess.ĭiablo 3 was announced that it's a good thing that you have to be online at all times because leaving chest contents generation to the server will prevent cheating. The fact that it doesn't work in windows 10 and a lot of computers today have no optical drive doesn't help on the issue and while it's not being used in new games, it's not like people are just throwing out their AAA games, which has this system. The amount of complains, online talk about boycotting games, people claiming to use unofficial no disc patches to play and that way can't update was staggering and it resulted in official updates, which disabled the disc check (at least for some games). That's not the case and it became widespread that people bought a second DVD drive to hopefully get something, which works, but even buying a drive, which works for other people is not a a sure way to fix the problem. Wikipedia claims reinstalling tend to fix the problem. Another common issue is that it doesn't support all drives and there is no official list. Sounds ok, but the detection system for virtual drives has a tendency to make false positives, meaning some computers can't run the game for no apparent reason. The idea is that the game refuse to run unless the disc is in the drive. ![]() I do know about this one and it's a mess, even worse than Wikipedia makes it out to be. I don't know the details of that connection, but I find it interesting that the also appears together with SecuROM. I don't know much about Denuvo, but it looks like it has to do with Sony DADC DigitalWorks.
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