The problem is that if the company goes under, or just stops wanting to pay to support those game servers, you're screwed. You can't play your game any more, unless you go find a hacked version on BitTorrent. Not only is the company highly unlikely to do so -- if they go under, it would be distinctly illegal for them to do it. But hey, don't take my summary, go read Shamus Young.
Shamus Young on DRM Activation and Bullshit
The problem is that if the company goes under, or just stops wanting to pay to support those game servers, you're screwed. You can't play your game any more, unless you go find a hacked version on BitTorrent. Not only is the company highly unlikely to do so -- if they go under, it would be distinctly illegal for them to do it. But hey, don't take my summary, go read Shamus Young.
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Welp, that's it.
The last person I knew on here is moving over to DreamWidth. When I load my friends list (without her) I literally get one private post from me and…
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Moved all my RSS feeds over...
It looks like DreamWidth also supports creating unlimited RSS feeds for various stuff... I've moved all mine over. Okay, *now* my friends list looks…
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Setting up DreamWidth...
I now have noahgibbs.dreamwidth.org. This same userid already belongs to somebody else who has no posts and doesn't otherwise resemble me. Still…
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