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So, I guess I'll just take this as a confirmation that stardock isn't planning on moving away from requiring that games be activated before you can play them, then, and I'll keep that in mind when deciding on my purchases going forward.
That's easy to turn on its head, and instead of saying "bought", say "registered". That way you can argue that registering your game gives you an actual benefit beyond just getting access to support. As to getting discounts, I'd assume that's easy enough to get worked out in conjunction with, say, steam, so that they give people who bought their game in a certain timeframe (and they would have a more accurate picture of who bought what, when) a different price from those who bough
[quote who="NR2001" reply="11" id="3177882"]*sigh* It's no use. People will always complain about DRM.[/quote] They won't complain about DRM if it's nonintrusive.
[quote who="NR2001" reply="7" id="3177747"]Why do you people always have to complain about DRM and stuff like that? You buy the game on either Stardock.com or store.steampowered.com, then you're billed. Just activate it, why do you people always have to complain about it?[/quote] Because it's clunky, annoying, oldfashioned and unnecessary. [quote who="NR2001" reply="7" id="3177747"]They must have 2 DRM activations because people can buy it from either Steam or Stardock
Yeah, while that's all well and good and not something I'm against, this could've been done without requiring the game have the registration to even start up. I'd be more than happy to register somewhere to get support if the steam patches etc weren't fixing whatever bugs had crept in, but I do not want to have to do that for just starting the game.
I'm going to just second the sentiment here. I re-bought the games on steam, since I'd prefer to keep my games in one place. However, after completely reinstalling the machine after I replaced/upgraded all the hardware, starting up both galciv2 and soase requires me to find the old stardock account. This annoys me, since last I checked the deal with registering the game was for when you wanted to update the game itself, back when the game was bought retail. When it's bough
