Atlantico: Good grief. Steam is now DRM-free? What the heck do these people think DRM is?
Server authentication being around *before* DRM? Again, WTF do these monkeys think DRM *is*?
karnak1: There are all kind of whackos and fanatics in the world. There are plenty of Steam and DRM fanatics. Same way there are islam (and other religion fanatics) who slaughter people and claim to do so in order to fulfill some "greater good" and obey some "higher power".
The imbecile quoted above is the kind of geek who has now seen
E: D as some sort of second coming. The question of wether the game is any good is irrelevant. The game must come out, regardless of wether it's filled to the brim with DRM and will format your hard drive or install spyware on your pc.
tomimt: I think some people just believe that indie devs are automatically somehow more honorable than big companies are and thus can do no wrong. And David Braben has gathered a quite a bit of hero worship during the years same way as Richard Garriott has for an example (yet another old school dev who is developing a MMO game that is supposedly going to have some kind of off-line mode, but as far I know only thing they've shown thus far of Shroud of the Avatar is MMO stuff.)
karnak1: The same Richard Garriot who, in the end, destroyed the same loving franchise he created.
Let's not forget that even
Ultima X (which was cancelled) was conceived as being an online game.
Steam fanatics are not DRM fanatics. Steam, and Valve, are not DRM. They employ DRM, they popularize it which is worse, but DRM is not all there is.
