At the RPC Germany I was tal?ing to an representative for the "Risen 3" game.
He told me that Risen 3 will come in Germany with NO DRM.
He explained to me that Germans generally hate Steam - but the rest of the world not.
But, since Germany is the primary market for the Risen series, they'll release it there with no DRM whatsoever.
In other countries, he said, releasing games without Steam has become IMPOSSIBLE. Publishers just would outright REFUSE publishing games WITHOT the Steam DRM ... But in Germany, gamers - especially older gamers like me - just outright refuse to buy Steam-based games ...
For any game-producing company, Germany is an highly difficult mareket. It's the ONLY market left IN THE WORLD whewre Adventure games rewally sell ! The rest of the world has completely abandoned this genre which created games like Monkey Island and DOTT.
Germany is an extremewly conservative market as well, I believe. The "no love for Steam" by the German average gamer - especially of the older gamer generations - clearly shows that as well.
So, before you put tarr & feathers over someone who is "demanding" an DRM-free game : Think of other cultures, too ! And other coumntries as well !
And - besides - telecommunication companies to NOT invest in rural areas ! Steam is an towns-only thing ! Because only in towns there is actually enough and cheap !!! bandwidth supporting gigabytes of patch downloads !
Rural areas in Germany are totally detached from the "internet culture" of the towns - simply because no cable / telekom company invests there !
This results in people simply neither having the money nor the bandwisdth of being able to download several gigabytes of patches - or even full games !
If I wasn't living in a town, I wouldn't play DOS, but instead sit there and be happy that I've got the CE - and play other games instead.
Offline games.
I think whoever creates a product, be it a game, book, movie, music, etc, has the right to distribute it in any manner they wish. If you don't like the method they chose or the price they are asking, you have the right not to buy it.
If they don't want my money ... well, it's okay for me ...
And, besides,m it is
sooooo typical for "modern" game forums that people are fast, astonishingly fast in easily condemning people who don't share their point of view ...
The internet is simply a place where the "freedom of speech" does not exist - because one gets bullied immediately fast after writuing doiwn an opinion others don't share ...
