Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game

yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Buying a game post-launch:

  • Better prices; often on sale.
  • Fixed and patched up.
  • Extra content often included.
  • DRM often removed.

  No brainer, imo.

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  • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You forgot a bonus point:

    • Hardware requirements are now easier/cheaper to meet/exceed.

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Preordering games: I need this digital product before jt goes up in price or runs out of copies!

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    • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Runs out of copies? Is that a thing?

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s ironic

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      • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        not for digital games.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cons:

    • maybe multiplayer isn’t very populated if you wait too long

    • ???

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such?

    Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time.

    Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done!

    Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pirating single player games is unfortunately the way to go, considering you BUY a single player game and STILL get fucked on it.

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Disagree, like yesman (lol) said it’s best to wait. I’m not that worried about playing games day one but I still want to sort the Devs, after they’ve patched out the bugs and removed DRM preferably

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    • newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If only buying games actually supported devs anymore. Devs seem to get fired for any reason nowadays.

      Bad game? Fired. Good game? Also fired. Popular game that people loved? Believe it or not, also fired.

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      • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Plenty of singleplayer games are from indies, those more or less support the developer.

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      • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I get where you’re coming from and I agree the job security for Devs and the financing of games is fucked. It’s still disingenuous to claim that pirating the game has the same impact as buying.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not either, I get them on sale later, just pointing out why would they screw over a paying customer with DRM bullshit.

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    • MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Only the devs who don’t use Denuvo

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  • shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pirating is getting so hard for me that it’s becoming not an option. Comcast has started blocking vpn nodes for me, but only of I am torrenting. And if I turn off the vpn, DMCA notices out the ass. I’m kinda stuck.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What VPN and where are you located?

      Couple things you can do, try changing your router DNS to quad9 or open DNS, make sure you’re not using Comcast default DNS servers.

      Try a new VPN provider, I’ve been using Torguard for almost a decade, zero issues, there are discount codes where you can get it for $29/year.

      I have a dedicated desktop for seeding, I upload about 1TB per day on soulseek/nicotine+ and torrents.

      youtu.be/xAo61IaXun8

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      • shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thank you, you’re a god among men. I use a pihole for DNS, but I will give Torguard a try because I’ve been thinking of getting rid of private internet access since they went all corporate.

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• piefood@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It's a beautiful cycle.

  /me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator

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  • JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A lot of things in life are improved once you excise the FOMO mind cancer.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, there’s so many good games and so little time, I don’t understand how anyone wouldn’t have a big backlog anyway.

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    • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      cause they only play slop with huge marketing.

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• Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They also typically go on really good sales right around the time denuvo gets removed.

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