• AceBonobo@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Not exactly Valve’s fault

      “To be fair, with the servers shutdown, the game would have been impossible to play anyways. This isn’t simply because it’s an online-only game. In fact, Order of War: Challenge has 18 single-player missions as well. But due to always-online DRM, even the single-player portion of the game requires the servers to be up and running.”

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        11 months ago

        I guess it’s the Always-On DRM that’s the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980’s. And I mean FORCE, as in “you can’t be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM”

        I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

      • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        Also, at the end of the article:

        “Update: It appears that contrary to what I first believed, the single-player portion of the game—Order of War without the “Challenge”—is still available on Steam, and only the multi-player content has been removed.”