DRM killed Gears of War for PC

Yet another epic fail for game developers and DRM! Microsoft and Epic might as well just emailed the link for a pirated version of the torrent at this rate!

Sad, Sad, Sad. I used to be a hard-core gamer. They have slowly taking all the gamer out of me. With Over-Hyped, Over-Priced games. Adding crud that needs constant updates, because they released a game well before it was ready. I'm back to playing board games as I did as a kid. At least those will work as the are supposed to every time. LMAO

Whats next, my toilet won't flush cause it needs an update. DRM my front door, so Im locked out. My shoes wont tie cause I already wore them x amount of times.

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Epic is currently trying to find out a way to find a solution to the problem.

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Like Buga, I'm getting sick of all these "advancements" that the new generation of games gave us. Does anybody remember when a game had ONE chance to get everything right? Once it was burned to the ROM or CD then it better of not been wrong or the game company would have one heck of a game replacement lawsuit. Granted, games are more complex now but that does NOT excuse a company from releasing buggy games. Take some of those R&D dollars and place them into more sophisticated quality assurance processes. This coupled with the standard practice of not releasing a complete game anymore (must buy 15 expansion updates to have a full game)makes me enjoy my board games that much more.

Originally posted by Buga:

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Sad, Sad, Sad. I used to be a hard-core gamer. They have slowly taking all the gamer out of me. With Over-Hyped, Over-Priced games. Adding crud that needs constant updates, because they released a game well before it was ready. I'm back to playing board games as I did as a kid. At least those will work as the are supposed to every time. LMAO

Whats next, my toilet won't flush cause it needs an update. DRM my front door, so Im locked out. My shoes wont tie cause I already wore them x amount of times.

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Originally posted by Buga:

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Sad, Sad, Sad. I used to be a hard-core gamer. They have slowly taking all the gamer out of me. With Over-Hyped, Over-Priced games. Adding crud that needs constant updates, because they released a game well before it was ready. I'm back to playing board games as I did as a kid. At least those will work as the are supposed to every time. LMAO

Whats next, my toilet won't flush cause it needs an update. DRM my front door, so Im locked out. My shoes wont tie cause I already wore them x amount of times.

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I did not even look in to buying Gears of War 2. It had nothing to do with DRM though. It had to do with the people I normally play games like this with would not wait and played it on the Xbox360. I just did not feel like playing it solo like I did the last one.

to Buga .... ditto. I agree with everything you said and I think there are more that do too.

Oh? DRM? I thought ti was bad coding lackluster porting that killed the game....

Originally posted by Buga:

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Whats next, my toilet won't flush cause it needs an update. DRM my front door, so Im locked out. My shoes wont tie cause I already wore them x amount of times.

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This game had some massive problems when it came out. People were losing saves bc of Windows Live, played like shat on computers that crushed the recommended specs including mine, game ending bugs. What a piece of sh1t. Couldnt even imagine this.

Yet one more reason to hate on CliffyB and everyone else in the universe with his name. Guy should be executed firing squad style for his seeming ability to f*ck up even the simplest coding jobs and then cry havoc when people warez his lame attempt at a competent pc game.

This is why PIRATING has increased over the last 3 years Lol the industry i think needs one more loss such as the magnitude of Spore then i think they will get their acts together.

This DRM shit that they think is Stopping pirates from using their games is complete bullshit i think theres a bigger scheme with the black box "addon". If you asked me its meant to be Break your system after a certain time. You guys already seen what starforce can do to hardware is it so far fecthed to believe it can get worse. Hell, DRM already embeds itself in your registry i wouldnt put it past them thats its doing much more then that.

Originally posted by lamain:

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I did not even look in to buying Gears of War 2. It had nothing to do with DRM though. It had to do with the people I normally play games like this with would not wait and played it on the Xbox360. I just did not feel like playing it solo like I did the last one.

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After MS came out with newer versions of Directx and my game controllers stopped working correctly, that really threw a blanket on game playing. That was also before game copying. Then it was a search for new controllers. And then faster, bigger computers. Different functions to control games for every game. Then high prices. Copy protection. Sony Securom. I'm installing Win95/98 and going back to the old games. No new Directx. On this old AMD1300 I got for free. Screw the new games.

Originally posted by lxhotboy:

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Originally posted by lamain:

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I did not even look in to buying Gears of War 2. It had nothing to do with DRM though. It had to do with the people I normally play games like this with would not wait and played it on the Xbox360. I just did not feel like playing it solo like I did the last one.

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That would be a lot of endless looking. I dont think Gears of War 2 will be released for the PC. I heard it is an exclusive as devs are tired of the higher piracy rates on PC. Xbox360 exclusive.

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Originally posted by lxhotboy:

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Originally posted by lamain:

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I did not even look in to buying Gears of War 2. It had nothing to do with DRM though. It had to do with the people I normally play games like this with would not wait and played it on the Xbox360. I just did not feel like playing it solo like I did the last one.

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That would be a lot of endless looking. I dont think Gears of War 2 will be released for the PC. I heard it is an exclusive as devs are tired of the higher piracy rates on PC. Xbox360 exclusive.

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I would hope so as the 360 really needs to keep it's "exclusives"...um, well, exclusive.

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Does this game need DirectX 10 to be played?