Posted June 24, 2014
high rated
Uh? Are you serious?
Should you remember years of 'no Steam no sales' everywhere on developers' forums?
Should you remember years of Steam memes and false advertisement from Steam fanboys saying that Steam sales are the better ones of digital market?
Should you remember years of 'Steamworks for the win', 'DRM-free addicts are evil pirates', 'too bad for other sellers, Steam cards and Steam achievements are key-sellers'?
Should you notice how many topics are created here on gog's forums to have Steam keys?
I only suscribed for a year, but I followed the 'DRM-free movement' for years.
And I understand (and I agree) with people getting tired of years of 'Steam blablabla', especially when they hate Steam.
Because years of that thing on every news website, every developer's forum, every social media...
Especially when the main problem is DRM, because it's matter of freedom and guilty.
Especially when some main publishers don't release their games as DRM-free.
We aren't at the beginning of DRM-free demands.
Like you said, things have changed. Because we are in 2014. And after years of waiting, even when some crowdfunding projects based on DRM-free versions try to escape and only came back to DRM-free because of true internet shitstorms...
I understand that many people hating DRM don't want to stick the actual catalog, and are waiting for too much time.
And for your information, in the world of trolls, whinners and co, Steam forums are way more ahead than DRM-free purists.
In the other hand concerning the classic Fallouts, while I am still unhappy to not see them available on a DRM-free store, critizing the new logos is missing the point.
Zenimax/Bethesda have purchased the IP and won the case. So we should respect justice.
It's rights holders' matter.
I remember when I purchased the Total War Eras box and saw the new SEGA logo on screen for each game and not the EA logo for Shogun and its addon, nor the Activision logo for Medieval and its addon.
Yes, it is the true end of an era for some nostalgic minds. But we already knew that. So we should accept it.
The only thing we should ask Bethesda and Zenimax for, is the release of their catalog on a DRM-free digital store, not bother with logos...
Should you remember years of 'no Steam no sales' everywhere on developers' forums?
Should you remember years of Steam memes and false advertisement from Steam fanboys saying that Steam sales are the better ones of digital market?
Should you remember years of 'Steamworks for the win', 'DRM-free addicts are evil pirates', 'too bad for other sellers, Steam cards and Steam achievements are key-sellers'?
Should you notice how many topics are created here on gog's forums to have Steam keys?
I only suscribed for a year, but I followed the 'DRM-free movement' for years.
And I understand (and I agree) with people getting tired of years of 'Steam blablabla', especially when they hate Steam.
Because years of that thing on every news website, every developer's forum, every social media...
Especially when the main problem is DRM, because it's matter of freedom and guilty.
Especially when some main publishers don't release their games as DRM-free.
We aren't at the beginning of DRM-free demands.
Like you said, things have changed. Because we are in 2014. And after years of waiting, even when some crowdfunding projects based on DRM-free versions try to escape and only came back to DRM-free because of true internet shitstorms...
I understand that many people hating DRM don't want to stick the actual catalog, and are waiting for too much time.
And for your information, in the world of trolls, whinners and co, Steam forums are way more ahead than DRM-free purists.
In the other hand concerning the classic Fallouts, while I am still unhappy to not see them available on a DRM-free store, critizing the new logos is missing the point.
Zenimax/Bethesda have purchased the IP and won the case. So we should respect justice.
It's rights holders' matter.
I remember when I purchased the Total War Eras box and saw the new SEGA logo on screen for each game and not the EA logo for Shogun and its addon, nor the Activision logo for Medieval and its addon.
Yes, it is the true end of an era for some nostalgic minds. But we already knew that. So we should accept it.
The only thing we should ask Bethesda and Zenimax for, is the release of their catalog on a DRM-free digital store, not bother with logos...