Affluent White Entitled American Whining
Okay, there's like twenty-two THOUSAND people dead in Myanmar. TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND. And another, like, forty-one thousand homeless. Just so we establish a sense of perspective here.
However.
"Mass Effect" for PC requiring validation every ten days? Guys, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I do want to buy your game. I very much want to buy your game. I am one of the people you are counting on for your sales. But this just plain makes the act of owning your game impractical and annoying enough that it just is not going to happen. I'm not being righteously indignant or anything, here. As a home dialup user, I have to restrict all modern gaming to portable laptops anyway -- even one-time authentication is a tortuous overnight process if I can't drag my gaming rig to a hotspot. The prospect of a game that I legally own expiring and becoming unplayable EVERY LESS-THAN-TWO-WEEKS, FOR MY ENTIRE PERIOD OF OWNERSHIP unless I remember to constantly maintain it is just untenable.
Sorry, guys. You lost me. Shame; like I said, I really wanted this one.
Nevertheless, still counting my blessings. See Paragraph 1.
However.
"Mass Effect" for PC requiring validation every ten days? Guys, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I do want to buy your game. I very much want to buy your game. I am one of the people you are counting on for your sales. But this just plain makes the act of owning your game impractical and annoying enough that it just is not going to happen. I'm not being righteously indignant or anything, here. As a home dialup user, I have to restrict all modern gaming to portable laptops anyway -- even one-time authentication is a tortuous overnight process if I can't drag my gaming rig to a hotspot. The prospect of a game that I legally own expiring and becoming unplayable EVERY LESS-THAN-TWO-WEEKS, FOR MY ENTIRE PERIOD OF OWNERSHIP unless I remember to constantly maintain it is just untenable.
Sorry, guys. You lost me. Shame; like I said, I really wanted this one.
Nevertheless, still counting my blessings. See Paragraph 1.