Review Mass Effect on the PC is perfect... or is it?

[Jedi_Learner]

Oh yeah, Jedi_Learner, I'm very happy for you that you are such an upstanding and moral member of society, but trumpeting it from the rooftops just makes you look like a douchebag. Companies that try to pull this shit on their customers deserve all the rape they get.

I love it when people mention my name, it makes me all hot and sweaty.

 

[Shannow]

Piracy may be wrong, but giving your customers a big "Fuck You!" is far worse, in my opinion.

Especially when you say that the pirates are bad and you (the devs/publishers) are good. As soon as you claim a moral higher ground you should adhere to higher morals, imho.

I think they want absolute controle over their product. They don't want pirates, customers or anybody else messing with it. Since I find control freaks as strange as people who want to dominate others I can't say why exactly they want that controle.

 

[fastpunk]

Piracy may be wrong, but giving your customers a big "Fuck You!" is far worse, in my opinion.

Especially when you say that the pirates are bad and you (the devs/publishers) are good. As soon as you claim a moral higher ground you should adhere to higher morals, imho.

There are no morals here. It's just good business.

 

[Volourn]

"Piracy may be wrong, but giving your customers a big "Fuck You!" is far worse, in my opinion."

Nonsense. Theivery is much worse. The companies who do this tend to tell people about thier protections chemes hence why this '3 installations' stuff was known in advance of ME PC's release so everyone should know about this before buying the game. If you buy it knowing about it; suck it up.

Pirates steal things that don't belong to them. That is much, much more imorally reprehensible. No doubt about it.

 

[Disconnected]

Online activation, if it's only once and doesn't effect future installs, I suppose I can grudgingly tolerate.

Online activation/registration to use online functionality, participate in the game community, receive tech supports, patches & updates, is all perfectly acceptable. Arguably it's beneficial to the consumers not to be bothered with/misinformed by the misadventures of P2Pers.

In the absence of such functionality/services though, online registration is bullshit.

If you want anti-piracy measures, provide online content gamers don't want to miss. Only online anti-piracy measures can be effective, and only when they're provided as an integral part of the online services are they not to the detriment of the people who pay you. Fortunately you can have your cake & eat it. Or you could, if you weren't so busy being a bunch of wankers.

If I had a regular broadband connection I would torrent this piece of shit and any other game with similar CP just out of spite.

If you torrent a game, you increase the popularity of the torrent. If you want to spite them, mail them a bag of faeces. By P2Ping you either achieve nothing, or increase their sales. Don't buy. Don't download. Don't play. Boycott the fuckers until they change their ways or lose their jobs & die in obscurity as they seem to crave.

Does anyone really think the 3 install limit is about piracy?

No. How the fuck does renting out games with a dysfunctional credit system for the full price of the product not encourage piracy? It's no different from a market congratulating shoplifters while punching paying customers in the nose.

Fuck 'em.

 

[MetalCraze]

meanwhile! Mass Effect is already cracked and on torrent networks.
and most likely dirty bad pirates will play it earlier than YOU with your legitimate SecuRom that can't find an internet connection.
so much for "anti-piracy protection"

 

[WalterKinde]

Damn it didn't even make it to 7 days between being on shelf and on the p2p networks.
Well time to check out Gamecopyworld to see what the crack is and if i should wait a few months for bargin bin price around thanksgiving if the crack is still too completed.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

10/10 doesn't mean perfect, just that there's nothing better at the moment according to the reviewer. No game is perfect, but that doesn't mean that the ten should go unused.

 

[Jasede]

Review scales shouldn't be relative like that.

Here's how it worked in the old Amiga Joker:

100% = perfect, don't ever need to play anything else
90% = holy fuck, awesome, buy this even if you hate games like this
80% = gee this is a very good game, worth a look even if you don't like the genre
70% = pretty good game, a sure buy if you're into games like this
60% = pretty okay; I mean, if like stuff like this... but you're in for a less smooth ride than with a 70%
50% = perfectly averaga/mediocre
40% = not a good game
30% = a bad game
20% = abysmal
10% = unplayable
0% = Big Rigs

They got a lot of flack for giving games others gave 100% 10/10 A+ to "only" 84% or so.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

rating systems are retarded

 

[Jasede]

Well, yes. But if you already use one you might as well use the best you can.

Channeling the spirit of Yahtzee and c't I gotta say that no rating and just an informative blurb are best.

 

[tunguska]

As far as I can tell the crack does not give you complete functionality. Nice to see they are trying, but no crack yet. Maybe in a couple of weeks we will see the real deal.

 

[Fez]

Amiga Joker used to put porn disks on the magazine.

 

[Yellow]

Maybe they meant to give the game a 9.95/10 and just rounded up. Now It's a 9.96?