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Just Cause Developer hates DRM

Posted Sep 2, 2011 at 8:18PM EST by Harrison E

Listed in: News Tags: Avalanche Studios, DRM, just cause 2, perfection, saints row 2
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Just Cause 2 was on par with Saints Row 2 with the amount of insane insanity you could have with everything from grooving on top of jet plane, parachuting off after take off, hook shotting it onto a helicopter crashing it into a building and then setting a bunch of quad bikes on fire...but I digress.

 

The point is Just Cause's creators know where there is fun to be had in gaming and what is no fun  - always no fun - is DRM. Digital Rights Management is a scourge and a plague that helps no one from the top down. The developers spend hours of time, coding and throwing money at a problem that really will never go away. If your game is popular, released online or even just known about in one way or another, you know there is gonna be someone out there to set fire to those terms and services and crash your DRM...literally and figuratively.

 

Head of Avalanche studios Christofer Sundberg came out the other day saying in response to Ubisoft's Martin Edmondson defending DRM,  "I don't like always-on DRM solutions at all, since they offer nothing to the consumer," Sundberg said. "If you continuously give something extra for registering and being online, and award them for actually paying for and playing your game, it'd be different, but always-on DRM only says: 'Thank you for buying our game, we trust you as far as we can throw you.'"

 

No more perfect a metaphor than I could create myself. I can't wait to see what Avalanche pulls out next and I know I'll be able to play it regardless.

Via [Edge]

 

 



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# RE: Just Cause Developer hates DRMUltimaXX 2011-09-04 07:05
I bought ACB for the PS3, but if I'd bought the PC version I almost definitely would have cracked it only to get around the restrictive DRM measures.

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