{"id":1124,"date":"2010-12-13T18:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2010-12-13T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:06:38","slug":"i-almost-paid-for-civilization-5-but-steam-prevents-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/13\/i-almost-paid-for-civilization-5-but-steam-prevents-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost paid for Civilization 5, but Steam prevents me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I *almost* bought Civilization 5. The temptation was strong…<\/p>\n

…but they still won’t allow me to buy it. You go into a shop, and spend money, and they tell you you’re a pirate, that you’re a thief, and that unless you create a Steam account and connect the internet to your PC, you “won’t be allowed” to play the game you’ve just paid for.<\/p>\n

Over Xmas, I think I’ll pirate it instead. Since they won’t let me buy it legitimately.<\/p>\n

(for the record, *if* I pirate it, I will also go into a shop and buy the useless \u00a350 box of plastic and DVD. I’ll do the morally right thing, despite their attempts to stop me)<\/p>\n

For the apologists<\/h4>\n

I’ve often spoken in public about anti-piracy measures for games. My conclusion was to include online-only content that you needed to be authenticated for.<\/p>\n

This is a single-player, offline game. There is literally no reason to make it “Steam required” – every offline player will get no benefit, and will be better off pirating it. This is (yet again) mindless stupidity from a games company (probably the publisher).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I *almost* bought Civilization 5. The temptation was strong… …but they still won’t allow me to buy it. You go into a shop, and spend money, and they tell you you’re a pirate, that you’re a thief, and that unless you create a Steam account and connect the internet to your PC, you “won’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}