Digital Rights Management is probably the single most sensitive thing about PC gaming. You make it too open or include none and your game gets pirated from everywhere and pretty much everyone except the few who actually have the morals to legally purchase the game and support the publisher. Make it too strict (looking at you Ubisoft) and you get a community of outright fury or people who generally will resist the purchase of your games. Then you get the horrible idea from Codemasters...
An update on EA SPORTS™ WRC.
Dear Rally Community,
Every great journey eventually finds its finish line, and today, we announce that we've reached the end of the road working on WRC.
'It marked the first time the studio had used the license in 18 years since 2022’s Colin McRae Rally 3.'
Can you not get AI to do proofreading?
Weird article written by a bot.
In any case I knew EA would ruin Codemasters.
Multiple games developed by Codemasters have been delisted on Steam just recently without any previous warning from EA.
Here’s the deal with this bullsh*t, and this is the single reason I f*cking hate digital, this wouldn’t be so much an issue if these people would give an announcement before they pull their games so people have a chance to get them before they’re gone. I mean, how hard is that to do?
Like, I prefer digital for the convenience of it and making me less of a hoarder, but stuff like this can drive me up the wall and I’m aware this also happens with physical games, but you can still acquire a game from eBay, though all scalped to hell, whereas digital you’re SOL… unless you have a PC.
Not to mention they also replace old base games with "bundles" back at full price. Some of the old and shittiest COD games are still full price on digital stores.
yup everything you said is correct, but with digital you can also acquire it lol thanks to piracy, thats what made me a pirate . Spec ops the line got delisted last year and I just pirated it and never looked back, unfortunately these bigger publishers dont care about older games so dont even give a reminder, so if they dont even care about their own older games, why should I help them with their new games, ill pirate those as well. GOG is the best, you dont even need to pirate those, the games literally dont have any drm, and you can keep the files permanently too.
the reason why i hate digital is because in 20 years when the servers go down, you can't play single player games anymore because shitty fucking companies want you to login to some arbitrary service to pad the numbers.
When a company like GoG does better than a titan like Sony, you know how terrible the state of gaming is.
Technically you are not wrong, only forgot to add Rights Management after the "digital".
These games had exactly 0 players. If you haven't played any of them by now you really didn't care in the slightest. Suddenly you're dying to play one of these classic turds? Sail to cs.rin.ru.
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i mean .. i hate this practise. atleast give people like a 2 months headsup.
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The F1 24 announcement seems imminent, as the Champions Edition cover and details have surfaced in F1 23's game files after the latest patch.
To Sony, and so many other companies in this industry, the short-term satisfaction and happiness of their shareholders means so much more to them than their employees, their products, and their customers.
Apologies, don't know how the above comment ended up here while it clearly should have gone to other article about the Sony lay-offs. Please delete.
I WILL NEVER BUY AN INCOMPLETE GAME! Never ever ever? Never ever ever!!!
Ah the games industry it was fun whilst it lasted. The greed mongers that are running things now have completely destroyed the industry. If codemasters implements this "plan" then I will be one less customer of their products.
thats an unfinished game that you need to pay more to get the entire thing.
Selling unfinished games?
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They've been selling unfinished games for years. But I guess it's cool to make it official and sound like it's a feature rather than a bug.
In all honesty this isnt going to work. The games crackers will find a way to crack those downloadable parts and install them into the game. Anyway I wont buy into this new system Either sell me a finished game or dont sell it at all.