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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yet another example of why DRM is bad for users.

[–] Statick@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm not disagreeing but it says people who already own it will be able to keep playing it.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

They also say that new users need to download things from S3, this could mean two things:

  1. The game checks whether you're a new user and if so downloads something from S3.

  2. The game downloads something from S3 on the first run.

If 1, then they have a server to list known users, how long until that server gets dropped? If 2 users who uninstall the game and reinstall it again will not be able to play. And all to download some data that could be embedded with the game to begin with.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

It says they can’t serve files to new users anymore. What if you are an old user and need to download those files again because you uninstalled the game.