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Tezcatlipoca · 01-06-2014, 16:00

Another problem with DRM for PC games is that if it's an online authentication, you can't play the game when it falls down.

Sim City, Diablo III, and now Watch_Dogs have all had big issues at launch because they all require you to be logged in to a particular service to activate the game and also simply to be able to play the game, and each of those services fell on its arse at launch (Origin, Battle.net, Uplay), with some issues taking quite a while to be sorted.

01-06-2014, 16:00	#11
Tezcatlipoca Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cambridge Posts: 16,760	Re: Increasing Technology & Gaming Another problem with DRM for PC games is that if it's an online authentication, you can't play the game when it falls down. Sim City, Diablo III, and now Watch_Dogs have all had big issues at launch because they all require you to be logged in to a particular service to activate the game and also simply to be able to play the game, and each of those services fell on its arse at launch (Origin, Battle.net, Uplay), with some issues taking quite a while to be sorted.