Remove DRM From all Fromsoft Titles

[Sir Valentine]

There are tons of data and evidence explaining why DRM is bad on every level and how it even fails to do the job it is intended. I want it removed. All of fromsofts past titles are DRM free last I checked. From soft also makes great games, so normally this is a surefire way to guarantee sales. I even put preorder money down, but then refunded it because I stand by beliefs.

The anti cheat is whiten a similar, but I don't mind it so much because it actually impacts the health and experience of a game more positively than DRM ever does. I wish that there was ethical ways to deal with certain anticheats that install themselves on the os level, but that is another discussion all together.

Do the right and ethical thing and remove the DRM.

[breadman]

no, i don't think i will

[ifyucantbeatmexd]

it's unfortunate. i was always going to be playing on PS5 anyway though so this doesnt affect me. not because of drm, but because that's where my friends are at anyway
by the way i dont think this is fromsoftware's doing so much as it is bandai namco's

[Algester]

Or I dunno play on the console? THERES ALWAYS THAT at least the games dont require a server to function.... like ACV and ACVD due to the chromehounds backend they used

[Outsider]

You have no idea how Bandai Namco does things, have you?
If there is a way to screw things up, they will. They have been sabotaging Gundam and Super Robot Wars franchises forever.
They put microtransactions into Armored Core 5, just to shut servers down 2 years after the release.
They sabotaged production and release of Armored Core Verdict Day (it doesn't even have CGI opening/trailer).
They put EAC into ER and disabled regional prices in that game.
There is a way for this publisher to mess up AC6, they will.
From Soft can do nothing with it, they're just the working horse.

[ペンギン]

Originally posted by Sir Valentine:

There are tons of data and evidence explaining why DRM is bad on every level and how it even fails to do the job it is intended. I want it removed. All of fromsofts past titles are DRM free last I checked. From soft also makes great games, so normally this is a surefire way to guarantee sales. I even put preorder money down, but then refunded it because I stand by beliefs.

The anti cheat is whiten a similar, but I don't mind it so much because it actually impacts the health and experience of a game more positively than DRM ever does. I wish that there was ethical ways to deal with certain anticheats that install themselves on the os level, but that is another discussion all together.

Do the right and ethical thing and remove the DRM.

Just an addition. Please check your statement again because it's wrong. At least FromSoftware products partially are using SteamStub/Wrapper.

Beside of that, forcing consumers into fully operational online only working products, is also a kind of DRM. Beginning with authentication and usage control, account data and token, storing and matching on third party servers, involved third party systems and data-pipeline (Epic Games), e.g.

It's worth remembering what Steam is all about. It's definitely not a friendly gaming platform for own amusement. Even if Valve Corporation likes to put it differently.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Sir Valentine:

There are tons of data and evidence explaining why DRM is bad on every level and how it even fails to do the job it is intended. I want it removed. All of fromsofts past titles are DRM free last I checked. From soft also makes great games, so normally this is a surefire way to guarantee sales. I even put preorder money down, but then refunded it because I stand by beliefs.

The anti cheat is whiten a similar, but I don't mind it so much because it actually impacts the health and experience of a game more positively than DRM ever does. I wish that there was ethical ways to deal with certain anticheats that install themselves on the os level, but that is another discussion all together.

Do the right and ethical thing and remove the DRM.

Steam is DRM, FYI.

[Feauce]

Originally posted by KungFuAndrewTV:

Steam is DRM, FYI.

Steam doesn't demand kernel-level access to your machine, which would allow a bug, exploit, or intentionally written code to do basically whatever it wants to or with your hardware without your knowledge or consent.

[Sabaithal]

Steam is one of the better examples of DRM honestly. Not completely unintrusive, but definitely not nearly as intrusive as most individually assigned DRM to many games.

I think the main thing is just that steam with it having so many titles, and especially sales so often, combined with their refund policies, means that there just isn't a need to pirate games 'to make sure the dang thing even works' anymore.

[Feauce]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Steam is one of the better examples of DRM honestly. Not completely unintrusive, but definitely not nearly as intrusive as most individually assigned DRM to many games.

I think the main thing is just that steam with it having so many titles, and especially sales so often, combined with their refund policies, means that there just isn't a need to pirate games 'to make sure the dang thing even works' anymore.

Agreed. Not to mention, the fact that you can reinstall games you've purchased that are no longer available on the store is huge. You don't need to store or keep track of an install disc or executable, you can just do it from within your Steam library by default.