Gears of War PC DRM Fails
It seems that there is a major malfunction with Gears of War for the PC. It seems that the digital certificate that allows you to play the game expired. This means that paying customers CANNOT play. From Ripten:
Users on the Gears of War official forums are reporting that the digital certificates for the game have expired, as of 28th January 2009. This means that the game will not launch at a system date post-28th Jan. Obviously, this is awful news for those people who enjoy playing the game on the PC, since unless they keep their system date before the 28th, they cannot play the game.
Say it with me now, DRM ( Digital Rights Management) is BAD, this is what happens when you get games that require draconian measures to "prevent" piracy. This is not the stance that Epic should be taking, they should look at how Valve thinks that pirates are just under served customers. Pirates will not be stopped by DRM, be it for video games, music or movies and DRM just ends up being a massive inconvenience for the PAYING customer.
DRM is an arms race that the developers will always lose at. There are plenty of people who enjoy breaking their new DRM as soon as it comes out. Video games could be cheaper if they didn't try to inconvenience everybody with DRM!
Epic is also a big fan of getting rid of used game sales as well.
Leave a comment and tell me how YOU feel about it!