3. Always-on DRM
Now before anyone gets their feathers ruffled, the idea of online verification isn’t inherently bad. Services like Valve’s Steam have already shown that a form of the technology can work, but it can’t get in the way of playing games. Requiring a one-time verification while booting a game is one thing, making the internet a constant necessity is something entirely different. That kind of restriction can and will disrupt my game time, and if my single-player experience can be interrupted because my internet hiccups a bit, I’m not playing anything on that system.
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