JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
If a company can get away with this practice, others will emulate it, and it will become a normal thing, and that's fucking terrible because it leads to the permanent loss of products people paid for, and a permanent loss of old cultural items, because yes, games are a cultural item.
And someone, at some point, might want to examine multiplayer FPS from the early 21st century, and he won't be able to get any first hand experience of some Battlefield games just because the publisher decided to shut it all down and it had always online DRM.
Meanwhile the first game in the series can easily be played with dedicated local servers.
Anything that leads to permanent loss of games is terrible and should be heavily discouraged, no matter the quality of the game in question.
And someone, at some point, might want to examine multiplayer FPS from the early 21st century, and he won't be able to get any first hand experience of some Battlefield games just because the publisher decided to shut it all down and it had always online DRM.
Meanwhile the first game in the series can easily be played with dedicated local servers.
Anything that leads to permanent loss of games is terrible and should be heavily discouraged, no matter the quality of the game in question.