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Posted August 16, 2018
In the past hour, i read about Moonrise and Darkspore. I'm curious if anyone has a list, or wants to build a list, of games that became unplayable because of modern DRM (not because of buggy CD checks).
Posted August 16, 2018
Battlefield II
Posted August 16, 2018
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paladin181: Battlefield II
Googling that comes up with posts about disk versions with no DRM. Or is there more than one Battlefield II?
Posted August 16, 2018
To play BF2, you have to login to EAs servers (even to play single player). Those servers were shut down.
It shouldn't be confused with Battlefield Bad company 2, or anything.
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kohlrak: Googling that comes up with posts about disk versions with no DRM. Or is there more than one Battlefield II?
Post edited August 16, 2018 by paladin181
Posted August 16, 2018
Scores and scores of android games. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened every day :p
Posted August 16, 2018
Ross Scott of Accursed Farms talks about this topic quite frequently. He's covered a number of games that can no longer be played and warns viewers of the dangers this mindset the games industry has of killing games.
Posted August 16, 2018
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paladin181: To play BF2, you have to login to EAs servers (even to play single player). Those servers were shut down.
It shouldn't be confused with Battlefield Bad company 2, or anything.
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kohlrak: Googling that comes up with posts about disk versions with no DRM. Or is there more than one Battlefield II?
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paladin181:
You can create an offline account for single-player, that doesn't need any login. If you get patch 1.5, the disk-check DRM is removed from the game. Compatibility is another issue however. When I wanted to de-install Battlefield 2 from my previous Windows 10 system, the de-install failed. Thenceforth I continued playing Battlefield 2 on my (offline) Windows XP retro gaming machine.
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Posted August 16, 2018
You are empty. Never found a nocd for it, so it sits there on the shelf all lonely.

GTA4, but that's more hope it is lost to time.
Post edited August 16, 2018 by nightcraw1er.488
Posted August 16, 2018
metal gear rising mac version.
Posted August 16, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: You are empty. Never found a nocd for it, so it sits there on the shelf all lonely.

GTA4, but that's more hope it is lost to time.
I have GTA4 after the 30/60fps bug because of the helicopter part and protecting tony i'm fine with that being lost :D the game runs at a different speed because it was ported from console which made the helicopter part impossible to beat under normal gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnw1SAMlUrU
Posted August 17, 2018
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paladin181: To play BF2, you have to login to EAs servers (even to play single player). Those servers were shut down.
It shouldn't be confused with Battlefield Bad company 2, or anything.
That's interesting.
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Pheace: Scores and scores of android games. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened every day :p
That, i know. But alot of people see that as different. I'd like to focus on desktop games, for that reason.
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CARRiON-XCII: Ross Scott of Accursed Farms talks about this topic quite frequently. He's covered a number of games that can no longer be played and warns viewers of the dangers this mindset the games industry has of killing games.
Thank you, this is useful information. Googling.
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DubConqueror: To play BF2, you have to login to EAs servers (even to play single player). Those servers were shut down.
It shouldn't be confused with Battlefield Bad company 2, or anything.

You can create an offline account for single-player, that doesn't need any login. If you get patch 1.5, the disk-check DRM is removed from the game. Compatibility is another issue however. When I wanted to de-install Battlefield 2 from my previous Windows 10 system, the de-install failed. Thenceforth I continued playing Battlefield 2 on my (offline) Windows XP retro gaming machine.
Isn't this also the case for console editions?
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Fairfox: its liek software /slash/// proggies taht use online activation systems (?) rite

lieeek we has photoshop/adobe master collection (?) an' you has 2 activate it online in order 4 it 2 work
so if they uuuh stahp you just lose all access to near $$$$2000 buyages?
+ you hases 2 remembah naht to jkust uninstall 1st else they ping you in face
welp you lose access i feel

do ne gamis use taht pew-y method

lmao ps i has filtah plugin 4 photoshop, an' liek they DO SAME THANG
4 A FILTAH SET
Basically, but i want to focus on things that have actually disappeared, not things that we know are going to. I'm doing this for the purpose of having examples that point to why one shouldn't invest in the software that we know is going to go away.
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nightcraw1er.488: You are empty. Never found a nocd for it, so it sits there on the shelf all lonely.

GTA4, but that's more hope it is lost to time.
Hasn't there also been console releases with no DRM?

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LiefLayer: metal gear rising mac version.
What's the story there?
Posted August 17, 2018
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LiefLayer: metal gear rising mac version.
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kohlrak: What's the story there?
Ported by Transgaming, phones home to Transgaming server in order to run, Transgaming goes kaput and so does their server.
Posted August 17, 2018
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kohlrak: What's the story there?
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eric5h5: Ported by Transgaming, phones home to Transgaming server in order to run, Transgaming goes kaput and so does their server.
I'm kinda surprised no one hacked that yet, then. It's probably expecting a certain return code or something. Unfortunately, it's still working on other platforms, and the main purpose of this post is to try to compile examples of how quickly and badly someone can get totally screwed over in gaming by DRM. Some people are Ok with "buying again" so it's not really a strong case. This might explain why DRM still isn't shunned: the big event hasn't happened yet: only with smalltime games and/or MMOs, and even then usually only on certain platforms.
Posted August 17, 2018
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Pheace: Scores and scores of android games. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened every day :p
Yep, son got really upset over one of his games being pulled

Also when they update games dramatically changing the game too.

Kind of regret getting tablets for the kids.
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