Penny Arcade takes on the Mass Effect DRM issue today<\/a>. I hope that someone at EA reads it, and that they subsequently, somehow, experience some sort of physical discomfort in the process. <\/p>\n Because most review sites want to review games before you can physically own them – as part of a neverending game of one-upsmanship that only they care about – BioShock’s devilry was revealed only after<\/em> most reviews were written. As a result that story didn’t really get its due in the gaming press. I certainly did my best to overcompensate<\/a>, but no amount of indignation here<\/em> can make up for the lack of attention there<\/a>. <\/p>\n Release date for Mass Effect on the PC is May 28. The news has most likely come too late to get a mention in print reviews – probably not an accident, there – but online reviews will be able<\/em> to give this issue some attention. I am very interested to see which ones avoid or gloss over the DRM. This story should<\/em> be in the forefront of any publication covering PC gaming. Readers need to know about the hassles and obligations<\/em> the game will place on them more than they need four paragraphs of gushing about the graphics. Any publication which spends column inches hyperventilating about graphics without mentioning the infuriating DRM is announcing their own worthlessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penny Arcade takes on the Mass Effect DRM issue today. I hope that someone at EA reads it, and that they subsequently, somehow, experience some sort of physical discomfort in the process. Because most review sites want to review games before you can physically own them – as part of a neverending game of one-upsmanship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,71,86],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-drm","tag-mass-effect","tag-securom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}