Showing posts with label bethseda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bethseda. Show all posts

01 November, 2008

I crusade against bullshit DRM and I am not backing down.

I am going to be very direct about this : I am boycotting Fallout 3 and and every Bethsedasoft product in the past, present and future indefinitely. This is a real pity because the game itself looks very well-produced with solid gameplay elements. Obviously, the quality of the game is not the reason for the boycott.

It is when a company stoops to such a low level of dishonesty such as promising to exclude bullshit DRM from their game, then turning around, shipping their game with the latest version of Securom , and then insulting customers with the insinuation that they are software pirates before finally offering a fix for SecuROM causing install issues for their game, that I rise up to the occasion and protest with a big fat boycott.

Why not just the game, but the entire company? The answer is simple, the game is the symptom of the problem, the companies pushing their bullshit DRM is what is causing the problem. Boycotting an entire company also sends a stronger message.

I can only wish that more people followed suit so that companies, in this case Bethseda, can no longer get away with thinking they can treat their customers as criminals. There really needs to be a concerted effort to protest against bullshit DRM such as SecuROM and Starforce and the companies using such low and slimy tactics to push said bullshit DRM. 

The gamers bending over, happily taking the big fat DRM dick up their ass, isn't helping the issue either; If you are able to ignore the fact that DRM is being sneaked into your games, if you are willing to ignore that game companies are getting more and more audacious and slimy with pushing intrusive DRM into their games and enjoy the game itself, then more power to you, but you are still not helping the issue, not one bit.