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SimCity [Megathread]
Ben Grapevine:
--- Quote from: SpreadsPlague on March 05, 2013, 07:59:48 PM ---can someone explain why a largely single player franchise needs always-on DRM?
if you can actually answer this question you're probably an starfish.
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Preventing piracy
I can get into the launcher but when I launch the game it plays music but no .exe appears. I checked task manager and it says it is running (LIES).
Operator¹:
--- Quote from: SpreadsPlague on March 05, 2013, 07:59:48 PM ---can someone explain why a largely single player franchise needs always-on DRM?
if you can actually answer this question you're probably an starfish.
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because EA doesn't want their game pirated (even though it's stupid to have drm in the first place).
Ben Grapevine:
--- Quote from: Operator¹ on March 05, 2013, 08:24:46 PM ---because EA doesn't want their game pirated (even though it's stupid to have drm in the first place).
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The amount of people that actually pirate games are so small they aren't even losing that much money
Comatose:
--- Quote from: Ben Grapevine on March 05, 2013, 08:24:01 PM ---Preventing piracy
I can get into the launcher but when I launch the game it plays music but no .exe appears. I checked task manager and it says it is running (LIES).
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That happened to me on first launch. Let it sit and run its course.
Ben Grapevine:
--- Quote from: Comatose on March 05, 2013, 08:33:55 PM ---That happened to me on first launch. Let it sit and run its course.
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How long did it take to "run it's course"?