DRM Issues Spoil Steam Holiday Sale

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Gameguru Mania News - Jan,02 2009 -

DRM Issues Spoil Steam Holiday Sale - briefly
(hx) 09:55 PM CET - Jan,02 2009 - Post a comment / read (2)
According to ShackNews, gamers that recently bought S.TA.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and X3: Terran Conflict were temporarily unable to activate and play those games, due to reportedly resolved problems with the TAGES-run authentication servers. Both games utilize TAGES DRM to enforce a 5-machine activation limit, and received a resurgence of attention as they were featured in the Steam Holiday Sale. The promotion saw 10-75% discounts on games sold via the PC digital distribution service. Upon attempting to run either game, first-time players were told that they needed to activate their copy with a serial number. Some attempts were met with a network timeout error, while others, such as Shacker Stucky_101, report they that had no problems. The issues began cropping up en masse between December 26 and 31, going by two separate threads (#1, #2) on the Steam forums. The problem also spawned a lengthy thread over at the offical X3: Terran Conflict forums. The problem was reportedly resolved as of this morning, however, the issues have caused many to question the need for third-party DRM on Steam, which is itself a form of digital rights management as players must sign-in at least once to download and activate their purchase.

last 10 comments:

Koogle

(06:57 AM CET - Jan,03 2009 )

Steam is a pile of shite itself.. add infested, slow assed drm crap that you have to have constantly updated with shity and mostly useless updates... just to get into a game for online play.. by the time you got the crap platform and finally managed to load the game, i'm already thinking about maybe I'll just play something else without such a retarded process to go through like Cod4, with just the old skool cdkey checks when ur joining a server.. instant launch...and less time to get into a frag fest.

So I no longer bother play any of the official games from Valve that I have bought on my account since Steaming shit platform release.. I've finally just gotten so sick of it i no longer use it... and L4D is first game I hadn't bothered with buying.. turned out to be some consolized crap anyway... I do feel sorry for these other developers selling there games on steam for such small prices though.. but the double wammy drm shite to put users through.. nah these game devs and publishers need to start getting a grip.. As a PC gamer I'm sick of this consolized shite. Make better games, yesterday I played Quake2 singleplayer.. what a good blast from the past(even the game music from that era of games was better than shit you get now with games), sometimes I wonder about this industry and the games of today. its nub shit,

Jelster

(12:12 AM CET - Jan,04 2009 )

It's interesting to see that EA have dropped all third party DRM for their Steam released games. I don't really see much point in it being included when it takes a similar effort to play a cracked Steam or other DRM game. This could be the first opportunity for people to actually vote with their wallets on the DRM issue. You'll now be able to buy a crippled retail EA game or get a Steam DRMed version with less limitations. Perhaps if EA see more people go for the latter they'll ease the hell up on the retail DRM too. Remember not buying the game at all just makes them think you're pirating it or that the PC market is declining.

@Koogle
Congratulations, I don't think you could have managed to fit more inaccurate, contradictory crap in a single post if you tried.

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