{"id":26361,"date":"2015-03-31T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26361"},"modified":"2015-04-01T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:32:09","slug":"experienced-points-so-who-is-drm-for-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26361","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: So Who Is DRM For Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/13715-If-DRM-Doesn-t-Really-Work-Who-Is-It-For\">we&#8217;re talking about DRM again<\/a>. To a certain extent, I realize this is a bit like complaining that the view outside of your jail cell kind of sucks. The DRM argument is essentially over. Our games are already linked to Steam \/ Origin \/ Games for Windows Live \/ UPlay \/ Whatever. The ownership argument has been over for years. From here on it&#8217;s just a matter of degrees. The publishers say, &#8220;We both agree the game belongs to us. Now let&#8217;s talk about what we allow you to do with it. And when we say &#8216;talk&#8217; what we mean is, &#8216;agree to this EULA and leave us alone&#8217;. Thanks for being a customer. We love gamers and video games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know the argument is over, but once in a while you need to drive by and chuck a brick through the window to let &#8217;em know you&#8217;re still mad. So that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;re talking about DRM again. To a certain extent, I realize this is a bit like complaining that the view outside of your jail cell kind of sucks. The DRM argument is essentially over. Our games are already linked to Steam \/ Origin \/ Games for Windows Live \/ UPlay \/ Whatever. The ownership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-26361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-battlefield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361","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=26361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}