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Battlefield Megathread
Nickelob Ultra:
Fun fact: The server based browser isn't THAT bad.
I would rather have a normal main menu though, and the lack of ability to integrate it into Steam as a non-Steam game is annoying.
The browser based function is incredibly anti-piracy though, if you think about it. You have to have a validated account to access the BattleLog and it's going to be very hard for pirates to find a way around it. So far this is like the only method probably that's worked but I fear that it will become the top form of DRM where all games check-in first with a browser-based game launcher.
Starcraftman:
--- Quote from: Shell on September 30, 2011, 04:05:02 PM ---Rate the game, not the DRM. If you're refusing to buy a good game because of what it's on, you're being stupid.
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I would say its pretty loving inconvenient to have to run origin, have a EA browser plugin installed, and use a web browser based server list to play one game.
--- Quote from: Starcraftman on September 30, 2011, 03:51:09 PM ---Also, buying the game from origin would only support the propagation of stuffty digital download services, which would effectively give the PC platform the equivalent of xbox VS ps3.
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I don't think you understood my point here. Do you really want to end up running a digital distribution platform for every game publisher just so you can play their exclusive games? Personally, I will not take this bullstuff.
Shell:
--- Quote from: Starcraftman on September 30, 2011, 03:51:09 PM ---buying the game from origin would only support the propagation of stuffty digital download services,
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Is that why you use Steam and have your profile to it linked?
Hypocrite.
Starcraftman:
--- Quote from: Shell on September 30, 2011, 04:22:38 PM ---Is that why you use Steam and have your profile to it linked?
Hypocrite.
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Are you saying steam is stuffty?
Shell:
--- Quote from: Starcraftman on September 30, 2011, 04:23:32 PM ---Are you saying steam is stuffty?
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Steam is a DRM and you said that you think DRMs are stuffty.