If you buy just about any product and have an issue with that product, you have a reasonable expectation of being able to take that product back and get a replacement. Example; Buy a TV and it doesn’t work, you return it and get a new one.. Or return it and get your money back. That new shirt not fit quite right? Take it back..
Not with software. With software once purchased you’re stuck with it. There is typically a very strict “no return” policy, and this sucks. It’s to the point now where most stores wont even take back unopened software. Once the transaction is done, its done.
So if you get that software home and it just plain doesn’t work, you’re hosed. You’re just out that money, and you have absolutely zero recourse other than to not purchase that companies software any more. That’s where I’m at with Ubisoft.
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Stop the DRM
When will companies learn that their draconian efforts to prevent piracy only serves to hurt their paying customers which directly affects their bottom line!!
Companies, you must stop counting pirated copies of your software as “lost revenue” — it’s not! Someone who is willing to pirate software isn’t willing to pay for it.. EVER! So you never had their money in the first place..
You’re trying so hard to capture that imagined lost revenue that it’s blinding you to how badly you’re screwing yourselves and your real customers..
Equating the number of pirated copies of your software directly to dollars is retarded.. More over, implementing these harsh DRM models only serves to prevent the honest players from playing your games, which effectively assures that you’re going to lose real money in the form of people who actually DO buy your games going else where..
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Far Cry 2 Cover
Open world game play is all the rage. The industry has decided that linear is out and that open ended randomness is in! The issue being of course that it detracts from the over all story and game play something awful.. of course gameplay also appears to be out right now, so no big loss … but I get ahead of myself..
Over the weekend I picked up Farcry 2. I wasn’t on the original Farcry boat.. For whatever reason that game came and went long before I ever saw it. When I finally did get my grubby hands on it, I had just played HL2 and was jonesing for some extra action.. needless to say it didn’t do much for me.. But I could see the potential! And certainly why it was thought of as awesome.. It was still pretty good for an older game..
Now that Farcry 2 is out I was one of the first ones on the band wagon. I downloaded the game from direct2drive and had it installed and playing in fairly short order.
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