Quote Originally Posted by Crandaeolon View Post
Seconded. Got any hard proof?

Also, could some of you guys be bothered to actually point out factual errors and junk sources in the article?
I'm really not sure what you are trying to say. That the article is meaningless? That you don't mind that it excuses the fun that publishers have been having lately? I shouldn't have to do extensive research to check if the game is going to turn my drive into a brick or prevent me from running other games or have the failsafe kick in for no apparent reason.

Look for yourself in the article. He picks out whatever information helps him out and uses that info. While trumpeting the success of DRM on Bioshock, he apparently ignores how other games were pirated easily. Actually, I seem to remember Bioshock being present on Russian torrent/download sites BEFORE release.

He constantly uses contradictory figures.

He bashes the anti-Starforce site for being "unprofessional" while mixing together figures and using metacritic and wikipedia.

He defends SecuROM, despite the fact that it can be configured to collect "marketing information" which the author of the article has observed does nothing for the consumer. It can also force a reinstall if your hardware changed. The funny thing is, SecuROM can be bypassed in a number of ways, but I won't get into that.

Here is a huge guide to SecurROM.