After DRM malware, which thankfully seem to be under control at the moment, Steam now introduces a wonderful new capability: DLC, or how you now get to pay your game piece by piece, $1 (or more ...) per map. Awesome :(
As posted in a previous announcement [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nodrm/announcements/detail/72180404754983160], Steam lists DRM, but until now, they never used the 3 letters to tell it. Now they say 3rd Party DRM on games that have DRM.
If Steam ever gets on Steam (which it seems likely that they will since their EULA is on the Steam website [http://storefront.steampowered.com/eula_testapp17400/english.html]) it has been said that they will still keep their DRM habits, despite the fan's h... More
posted by Dr Colossus @ 03:49PM on September 29, 2008
A new game download service called "Good Old Games" (http://www.GOG.com) offers downloads of old classics for between 5 and 10 bucks with absolutly no DRM and unlimited redownloads. In addition, they offer unlimited downloads of manuals, soundtracks, wallp... More
The Steam store pages for games which include DRM now mention that they have "limited activations". Not a very explicit statement, and carefully avoiding the magic 3 letters which would make the customer dash to the nearest emergency exit, but at least the... More