Posted July 08, 2023
high rated
I plan on buying this game. I HAVE NEVER played this game despite being a massive Warhammer fan.
The reason...it has NEVER been DRM free. It ALWAYS required an online activation and DRM even more seriously than that. The DRM on this game was MASSIVE.
That this game is even here and you can play single player is a massive thing. I still don't like the DRM indications of it's online component...BUT...it was one of the MOST DRM'd stronghold games EVER.
It's probably because it's only after 14 YEARS that they are going to relax their DRM. It's the stupidest DRM I ever saw. Required DRM meant that they lost at least 1000 sales (yeah, I know, small change to them) due to everyone in my gaming club boycotting this game. Even those who could put up with Steam back then boycotted it because of HOW MASSIVE it's DRM was.
It was a signal of things to come (always online DRM came soon after, and then the disappearance of hardcopies of games that could be installed and played without ever activating them onlne).
I see review of people saying the DRM is bad...these people either were asleep when they dealt with the stronger DRM when it was released, or never actually played a legitimate copy of this game, EVER. The DRM on this original was extremely horrible.
I'm not surprised if they still required some DRM to play online even with a GOG release. These people who made the game and distrubuted it don't realize WH40K is kind of a parody on societies that impose their will over that of free will. They think that's how things should be.
It would be great if those complaining would recall DOW II and how draconian it's DRM actually is and was prior to it coming to GOG. Still bad if it has DRM over it's online (but as I said, those who made this game would rather never have a sale and lose sales than to allow others freedom nad the ability to control what they buy) but it's still a far cry from how bad it has been in it's past with the DRM.
It may even be that the DRM online is a relic of the DRM that came with the game, someone just forgot to take it out completely and disassociate it from the other DRM that it required online initially.
The reason...it has NEVER been DRM free. It ALWAYS required an online activation and DRM even more seriously than that. The DRM on this game was MASSIVE.
That this game is even here and you can play single player is a massive thing. I still don't like the DRM indications of it's online component...BUT...it was one of the MOST DRM'd stronghold games EVER.
It's probably because it's only after 14 YEARS that they are going to relax their DRM. It's the stupidest DRM I ever saw. Required DRM meant that they lost at least 1000 sales (yeah, I know, small change to them) due to everyone in my gaming club boycotting this game. Even those who could put up with Steam back then boycotted it because of HOW MASSIVE it's DRM was.
It was a signal of things to come (always online DRM came soon after, and then the disappearance of hardcopies of games that could be installed and played without ever activating them onlne).
I see review of people saying the DRM is bad...these people either were asleep when they dealt with the stronger DRM when it was released, or never actually played a legitimate copy of this game, EVER. The DRM on this original was extremely horrible.
I'm not surprised if they still required some DRM to play online even with a GOG release. These people who made the game and distrubuted it don't realize WH40K is kind of a parody on societies that impose their will over that of free will. They think that's how things should be.
It would be great if those complaining would recall DOW II and how draconian it's DRM actually is and was prior to it coming to GOG. Still bad if it has DRM over it's online (but as I said, those who made this game would rather never have a sale and lose sales than to allow others freedom nad the ability to control what they buy) but it's still a far cry from how bad it has been in it's past with the DRM.
It may even be that the DRM online is a relic of the DRM that came with the game, someone just forgot to take it out completely and disassociate it from the other DRM that it required online initially.
