Entropy: You can resell Quake3 with it's cd-key on ebay.
Baggins: Uh cd-keys usually are registered to a name and account. If you resell a used cd-key it shouldn't be able to be reactivated on another account.
Un, [font=infinity]NO.[/font] That's not what a cd-key is. A CD-KEY is just that, a license KEY, which only acts as a receipt / proof of purchase. If a company ties the key to an account, then your ACCOUNT is the DRM, NOT the cd-key.
CD-keys were NOT tied to accounts at all, prior 2000.
Baggins: Related to this, most companies do not allow someone to sell or transfer accounts.
Accounts. You said it yourself. You are deliberately associating keys with accounts, when they are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
cpc464: As for calling GOG DRM I guess all caps doesnt make that sarcasm??? because I mean you can download all your GOG games and have a copy that is outside you account you can keep forever even if you forget your password or something.
Baggins: To add to that all the downloaded copies could technically be given out and would work on other machines. They aren't tied to a account, they don't have watermarks that link them to a specific person.
GOG is relying on honesty and trust that people won't abuse the system. It happens, but most people probably respect it.
Honesty? How is any form of DRM HONEST? Giving away copies is one thing, because that's piracy, but selling or transferring your digital property to someone else is legal trade that falls under the first sale doctrine. People have sold old copies of software for YEARS over Ebay, but only recently with account based DRM has this changed. The problem here is that people just aren't standing up for their rights, and trading it for convenience.
I'd also like to point out that CONSOLE OWNERS are apparently more aware of their rights than PC Users, because when MS tried to implement account based DRM over the XBONE, the customer backlash was so large, they had to capitulate to their demands. PC users are just sacks of worthless jellyfish who'll take whatever abusive DRM is thrown their way. EA's Origin is a great example of this.
Another thing I just realized is that ROTT doesn't even ask for the key to play offline, so IMO, anyone whining about this key "drm", is merely a pirate who wants to play online without any anti-piracy measures.
I suppose according to this cd-key "logic", UT2004 has DRM, when it's a well known FACT UT2004 doesn't have drm. You people are either all whack jobs or pirates, I can't decide which. Maybe both.
