Why online activation sucks

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I know I am stepping into a old discussion here but I stumbled on this because I was looking for a place to vent. And since there is no forum I am aware of for the gaming community to send messages to developers/publishers... it is here I will vent:

Let me start by saying that DABhand actually proved Joe Forster's point with the argument of:

Was quite well known, they produced x amount of media and only a fraction sold world wide

If it is so well known you would think he could have come up with a number instead of the universal symbol for an unknown amount.

A long time ago I learned that if you want your computer to remain stable the only way is to keep it off of the internet. Any version of windows actually works quite well if you can keep every Tom, Dick, and adware company from installing their crap on it. Also for quite a while I didn't have internet because of the cost. So with online activation I have to be very careful about what games I buy (not always easy because they like to put this info in the fine print). It was bad enough when I had to come to terms with companies causing undue wear and tear on my CD/DVD drive so they could be sure I bought their product but requiring a connection to play offline content is intolerable for me. My one experience with Steam was a nightmare. I bought SIN (on a disk in a store) only to find that the disk merely gave me permission to download the game. Fine, I thought, until two weeks of dropped connections only to find I didn't like the game. Waste of time and money - never again. I just bought FUEL (whoops) what kind of moron writes (or ports) a vehicle game for PC's without joystick or wheel support. Sure wish I had downloaded a cracked version to try so I didn't waste my money (yes I know there's a demo but these are generally missing all sorts of game features so missing support wouldn't necessarily mean it would be missing in the full game).

My point here is that I am very quickly getting turned off of the whole gaming experience and it is the fault of the software companies not the pirates. And it is companies like your's, DABhand, that will suffer when I will no longer be playing games. Don't worry about the software companies though since future generations will be born with an IP address and billed for their installation into this world.

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