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Then vs Now (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://steamdb.info/charts/?category=10&__cf_chl_tk=ns7vohkn16knyf_fsewm.mnjjh9ibglmkfjyrldghy4-1706223534-0-ganycgzndiu

DRM is nothing new, we just used to have to keep up with the disk or a Key. If always online was an option back then you can bet your ass game publishers would have implemented it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was an option back then. They just know nobody would have accepted it then because

Not as many people had the internet, and
The internet that they did have sucked ass

There were still plenty of online-only games. They just had a damn good reason to be online. Always-online in single player isn't needed as DRM. There are plenty of other DRM options that don't use the internet at all or at least only check once in a while when you do have a connection to the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jesus...ok obviously it was technically an option, but it would be suicidal in a time when not everyone had Internet in their homes and those that did had unreliable Internet. Don't be obtuse. Those limitations are largely not an issue in 2024.

I was playing video games on my homebuilt computer in the 90s. I know exactly what it was like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I was playing video games on my homebuilt computer in the 90s. I know exactly what it was like.

So was I. And so do I.