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I don't remember Jowood doing an invasive copyprotection. Today's Atari it's not Atari anymore. And from this fall it will be completely integrated in Infogrames as they've bought the rest of the shares. So Infogrames owns now the whole Atari. I've had a great deal of respect for the old Atari, but the new Atari it's just a company who uses the brand. Nothing else.
Atari promised the DLC for Test Drive Unlimited on PC. They've delivered a bastard product. You can only download the product and activate 3 times. LIke you will install the game only 3 times. NWN2 it has more patches than the first(way more). No cumulative updates. You need to have a lot of space to install the patches. Crashes due to the poorly implemented protection which hampers the game. What they fix in one patch they are braking in the next one, while trying to update the protection.
So I'd wish That EA take the DND license from Wizards of The Coast or buy Infogrames(which it's not doing so bright either, they've barey managed to go on profit).
And unfortunately the big companies would rather have a full control over the products they are publishing.
So my support goes to companies like Stardock, which are trying to offer a good game at a decent price, a game made to work on most of the systems, with no invasive copy protection and only the need to register the game to have access to the support section and some extra content. I'd like to see more companies adoptin this model. But they would rather blame the pirates for every failure. And saying that the today's people prefer short games with fabulous graphics. But you can't play graphics, and most of us would rather have more than 4 hours of gameplay(Frontline : Fuel of War, The Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, just to name a few such games) and something that wouldn't make us upgrade our PC at about 3-4 months.
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