The need for Diablo 3 to be always online is not DRM

DRM is digital rights management

Blizzard ‘always online’ system is blocking the ability to hack items into the game and keep the auction house’s economy balanced. It is a similar system to how you log on to play any fricken other online game. 

Bitch about it all you want. Say it’s not necessary. But it is is not DRM.

Finally I would like to finish this rant by saying that I have had time for Diablo 3 over the last two days for a total of 12 hours. Of these 12 hours I have been able to play for 11 of them. The only hour I missed was because we tried to log on the second the servers were live.

Rant over!

2 weeks ago  /  2 notes

Today I just realised that I if I do my top up I look like I’m wearing a fairy tracksuit.

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Gender dysphoria, sexual orientation and feminism in gaming culture

(what made me want to post this can be found on kotaku)

I love video games, I play them as soon as they come out, I follow the design process and I watch and support budding Indie companies, but there is one thing about the industry that gets to me. See in the gaming community there is a massive outcry as soon as feminism, sexual orientation or transgenders are mentioned. And it has gotten to the point where whenever I see a post about any of these things on Kotaku or Destructoid it’s like picking at a scab.

Don’t get me wrong, to the outside observer it looks like the actual writers and editors of these websites don’t have anything against it (I think). I mean posts appear all the time about things like the post linked at the top (A transitioning MTF working for EA sports), and they are always positive. But at the same time it always turns out the same.

Someone will post one of these posts, and it will be all happy and fun and rainbows and shit, but the comments are horrible.  In fact I would say that the comments sections of these posts (not this post in particular) have hurt me more than anything else I have read on the fucking internet. I have read much more hurtful things, but they are always one dickhead’s opinions and that kind of thing you can shrug off. But when it’s sitting at a 40-60% hateful comments it’s quite daunting.

I also wonder about the reason for posting these things. I mean they don’t post about absolutely everything that happens in the gaming world but there is an alarming number of lesbian / transgender / you are all sexist posts which kind of give the impression they want the drama. And they don’t even seem to care about watching the comments on such a flamey subject (they still have the automatic user triggered report system of course).

Rant over

3 weeks ago  /  2 notes