Do you want it to be dirt easy to have half the game, yourself included, cheat like a madman and undermine the entire game for everyone else? There has to be SOME protection against outright hacking in a multiplayer game. Wait hold on.I understand but vehemently disagree in calling Easy anti-cheat a DRM in the name 'its a non-integrated section of code running on top of the game as a requirement." But how is trying to stop you from cheating in a multiplayer game like Vermintide or online competitive environments like the multiplayer for Battleship Gothica in any way not absolutely necessary. When it's managing the rights of what I can and/or can't do w/ a game and its full contents - yep, no matter what it's doing here - yep, DRM. Another form of DRM namely b/c it's used here to stop cheating - which to me, falls in the DRM sub-section of stuff like BattlEye and Eas圜heat, that I mentioned above.ĪLL are DRM, albeit different forms of it. MysterD: Yep, I'd also consider this DRM.
newer versions of Securom and Tages) etc etc.ĪLL are DRM, albeit different forms of it. Another form of DRM namely b/c it's used here to stop cheating - which to me, falls in the DRM sub-section of stuff like BattlEye and Eas圜heat, that I mentioned above.Īll of this stuff to me is DRM - Anti-Cheat Anti-Tamper Client-App's (like Steam, Origin, etc - when used as such) and their suites like Steamworks or Impulse also having GOO MMO's with always-online requirement Saves only are in the Cloud and not saved-locally (often in MMO's) progression forced onto servers (think Hitman 1: GOTY's online-progression system for unlocks) extra goodies stuck behind always-online server stuff and/or client-app requirements to run a game and/or its DLC's/expansion/any content Stats & Achievements are only always online and server-side disc-check DRM (StarForce, Securom, etc) install limits on phone-home and activation-online required DRM schemes (i.e. which just goes to show how utterly futile it is to try and separate "real DRM" vs other stuff that's actively Digitally Managing the Right to something about a game, and they've been gradually turning into the same thing and completely left everyone arguing with "DRM is solely about copy protection" 1991-era definitions 30 years in the past. BrianSim: That's a shame because "Denuvo Anti-Cheat" is actually a thing now.
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