DRM and Me
Channel: Virtual Corvid
Date: 24/11/2014

OH THE HORROR!  I can't play my games because of DRM.  I bought those games, I own them, they are mine and I am not allowed to play them.  Do I feel entitled?  Of course, I think I have the right to feel entitled.

Do I think DRM is bad?  Not entirely, the artists and wrights owners should be able to protect their work.  But I do think the current trend in DRM systems is broken.  The bad is that you are required to have an internet connection, you can't resell your games, and too often you can't play the games you've bought because of an error in the copy protection that's on the publisher.

The ugly is when a DRM service disappears completely.  One big example is Microsoft's Games for Windows Live service which they ended support for.  A bunch of games relied on that and without it they are rendered unplayable.  I have a bunch of games that used that DRM scheme, now the only way I can play them is to go through the steps to disable the copy protection and effectively pirate them.  Really, the whole thing is so ludicrous that I am pirating a game I bought just to be able to play it.