Do it anyway!  Make the post!

I shall never use a site that requires me to log on.

ohwait

Frogboy fights back.

It's forum posts like these that become the stuff of legends.

epic win

Funny they are worried about privacy issues. What privacy issues? Impluse does not have anything of mying that isnt already secure. Sounds like whining to me.

I dont like DRM either but come on having to log in to download updates is just standard procedure. Im against intrusive Drm that dont let me play on certain circumstances, like having to be on the internet or having the cd inside, but updates?, you have to be on the internet either way to download and you need an account to play online them so whats the problem with having to log in to download updates.

I think they're assuming you need to give a lot of information when you make an Impulse account, and from what I remember of the process, it was user id, password, email, done.

Well, I'm a member of that website. Personally, I don't consider the change in system for Demigod to be a big deal at all...it doesn't bother me. Some people might, though, and that was the point of posting that. We're about information, not fearmongering.

We're hardly a group of tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists screaming like Chicken Little about how the sky is falling because DRM is the epitome of evil, though. Right now we've been having a long conversation with the CEO of Byteshield about their DRM system and how it would work for gamers. A few of us have been testing the Byteshield system and putting it through it's paces, and at this point I'd have no problem recommending it at all. The vast majority of us play a lot of games involving online activations and the like and are regular customers of Steam and Impulse. Our pet peeve is garbage like SecuROM and it's ilk, with all of the associated issues that can come with.

Anyway, we'd love to have you join up, Brad. Believe me, you have a lot of fans amongst our little group who would love the chance to interact with you, myself amongst them. I've been enjoying Galactic Civ 2 for awhile now and am really looking forward to Elemental.

Oh, and Phalnax? Maybe try spelling your alias correctly before you start trying to talk like a big boy. Thanks.

They seem to take it to the extreme, yeah. I mean, I registered my new fridge to get the warranty started, but I don't think my fridge uses DRM.

The issue I think is how they define DRM is different then how most people do. I mean, almost nobody would claim WoW uses DRM, but by their definition it does. Likewise with Demigod, I don't consider it DRM (the program doesn't do any checking of its own validity, the pirate version is effectively identical to the release retail version). The multiplayer servers do check accounts, which is pretty normal.

LOL. As it happens, I prefer activation based DRM like Stardock's because it avoids having to have a DVD in the PC all the time.

The best method I have seen is simple. Basically you have to do a one-time activation on install. The software is hardware locked. There is an initial limit of installation on no more than 5 separate pieces of hardware. Most people never reach that.

Finally and most importantly, if you do not reach the limit and you do no installations for a long time (many months) the slate is wiped clean. This means that people who change computers infrequently get their count reset to 0 and theoretically could re-activate without contacting support on ten compuiters in a row, with very low risk of piracy.

What do you think, Brad?