Experienced Points: So Who Is DRM For Anyway?

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Experienced Points: So Who Is DRM For Anyway?

Added: 01.04.2015 0:18 | 2 views | 0 comments

Shamus Young Battlefield Hardline DRM So the news last week was that Battlefield: Hardline has DRM that locked players out of their game while they were trying to do hardware benchmarks and swapping out graphics cards. It's an old, largely discredited and greatly maligned form of DRM that most other publishers - even DRM-obsessed Ubisoft - stopped using a few years ago. But here is EA, still using it and acting like the last 10 years of DRM-driven PR disasters and financial waste hasn't happened.