tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270748908158073463.post3082407883360128986..comments2023-05-04T07:32:35.200-04:00Comments on MMN Tech: Bioshock Demo ReviewMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14705332818474946081noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270748908158073463.post-14688002542563887832008-12-18T16:48:00.000-05:002008-12-18T16:48:00.000-05:00Wow, resurrecting the dead here. Anyway, I'm not a...Wow, resurrecting the dead here. Anyway, I'm not a professional reviewer so I can only comment on my own experience. I'm not sure what was causing the crashing issue but all I can say was I got the demo from a legitimate source and it didn't work. <BR/><BR/>As for my DRM rant, the issue at hand isn't so much about protecting interests. The problem is that legitimate consumers are being played monkey in the middle in the unending battle between the pirates and software publishers. More often than not, it's the legitimate gamer that gets punished as more draconian restrictions are placed on games. Take the huge amount of controversy over SecuROM in Spore. Of course they have rights to protect their property but they don't have the rights to build planned obsolescence into their titles. In this regard, DRM can hurt a game's reputation, which will ultimately hurt sales more. The fact that the music industry is moving away from DRM shows that it is not a worthwhile tool for protecting their interests.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14705332818474946081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270748908158073463.post-75361010923578130082008-12-17T19:22:00.000-05:002008-12-17T19:22:00.000-05:00To be absolutely fair though, no game can be guara...To be absolutely fair though, no game can be guaranteed to work on everyone's system. I've just tried the BioShock pc demo myself, sure it took a few hours to download, but using Steam, its relatively pain free. No DRM worries here. As for the first point, I was running windows vista home premium with a nvidia GeForce 8500 GT, with a core 2 quad at 2.4 GHz and 4Gb of RAM, hard drive cluttered as hell, and not a single problem with bioshock. Whilst Vista might not be perfect, and is certainly a step down from XP, its the most recent operating system from microsoft and as such developers will focus on making their games work for it. As for you're DRM rant, are these people not allowed to protect their interests? They have to make a living as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com