"You know, a part of me feels this is just the next cog in the slippery slope that game companies have been going down. You know, where they test something out, if it sticks, they go a little further.... repeat for the last 20-30 years."
Oh it is most definitely that. Once "always connected" becomes "accepted" and "normal" (and you know it will, no matter what anyone says or does) I shudder to think what next horror they'll unleash on us.
As for people complaining about Ubisoft, well, most of the Internet as well as everyone I know personally with an interest in such things did complain about it. There were some idiotic yes-men here and there doing their idiotic yes-men thing as they are wont to do, but for the most part nobody outside of Ubisoft thought this was a good idea. Did it stop Ubisoft from using it? Nope. Did it stop them from retardedly claiming it to be a "success" afterwards? Not at all. Did it lead to other companies, such as Blizzard here, adopting a "me too" stance and implementing it themselves? Sure did, sadly and frustratingly. (At the very least, though, Blizzard is still marginally embarrassed enough by it to try to lie about it and claim that it's not about DRM at all, despite it obviously being so. Whatever it is, it's definitely not in the best interests of their customers though, I don't care what bullshit they try to spout to the contrary.) And now, a lot of people are looking at Blizzard doing it and going "Gee, I guess it won't be so bad. Maybe this is okay after all," which is just depressing as shit.
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Date: 2011-08-08 06:09 pm (UTC)From:Oh it is most definitely that. Once "always connected" becomes "accepted" and "normal" (and you know it will, no matter what anyone says or does) I shudder to think what next horror they'll unleash on us.
As for people complaining about Ubisoft, well, most of the Internet as well as everyone I know personally with an interest in such things did complain about it. There were some idiotic yes-men here and there doing their idiotic yes-men thing as they are wont to do, but for the most part nobody outside of Ubisoft thought this was a good idea. Did it stop Ubisoft from using it? Nope. Did it stop them from retardedly claiming it to be a "success" afterwards? Not at all. Did it lead to other companies, such as Blizzard here, adopting a "me too" stance and implementing it themselves? Sure did, sadly and frustratingly. (At the very least, though, Blizzard is still marginally embarrassed enough by it to try to lie about it and claim that it's not about DRM at all, despite it obviously being so. Whatever it is, it's definitely not in the best interests of their customers though, I don't care what bullshit they try to spout to the contrary.) And now, a lot of people are looking at Blizzard doing it and going "Gee, I guess it won't be so bad. Maybe this is okay after all," which is just depressing as shit.