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

grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve downloaded software that I had paid for, simply because of the bullshit involved with DRM, licence unlocking, etc.

  If the user experience of a paid software or service is inferior to a pirated version, then the developers are doing something wrong.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. At a minimum, I remember having to d/l no-CD cracks to get around the annoying and totally unnecessary disc DRM (that required you to insert the disc, just to prove you had it).

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While the CD checks are absolutely annoying, nothing, and I mean nothing, was more inconvenient than having to go to a certain page and a certain line and a certain word in the manual to unlock a program you paid for. Fucking infuriating.

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Shuddderr. I remember the first time I saw a game do that, I thought oh what a fun little game I guess it’s to get me to use the manual… like some kind of ARG, but when I realized the real purpose all the joy was sucked out of it.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Necessity*

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• Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or you could always just not play the game? It’s that not an option?

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But I’m already doing that. I want to do my part to dissuade bad software practices.

    Who am I kidding I’m just going to keep working through the Cacowards forever.

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