{"id":2101,"date":"2009-02-01T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2009-02-02T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:29:17","slug":"gears-of-war-drm-screwup-makes-pc-version-unplayable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2009\/01\/pc-gears-of-war-drm-causes-title-to-shut-down-starting-today.ars\">software bug<\/a> has locked people out of their copy of Gears of War for the PC. Says a rep in the forums:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">We have been notified of the issue and are working with Microsoft to get it resolved. [&#8230;]Sorry for any problems related to this. I&#8217;ll post more once we have a resolution.<\/div>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a terrible thing to lock legit customers out of a product they own, but, it&#8217;s all worth it because it stopped people from pirating the game, right guys?<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: As pointed out below, this isn&#8217;t so much a &#8220;bug&#8221; as &#8220;idiotic design and failure to plan ahead.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>EDIT 2, Electric Boogaloo: Looks like the failure was on the part of the anti-cheat, not the DRM. I do not consider this an improvement, but it&#8217;s an important distinction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a software bug has locked people out of their copy of Gears of War for the PC. Says a rep in the forums: We have been notified of the issue and are working with Microsoft to get it resolved. [&#8230;]Sorry for any problems related to this. I&#8217;ll post more once we have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-drm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}