When did we stop calling always-online "DRM"? People seem to think it's there because devs want to shoehorn in online features on SP games. It's like they completely forgot it is primarily an anti-piracy measure. An inconvenience which paying customers must bear to prevent an imagined loss of revenue from someone else. And it doesn't even achieve that.
All complaining about DRM stopped around the time subreddits all began shilling for companies in order to get their community managers or devs to participate in the most meaningless ways imaginable by simply saying hello or acknowledging their existence. Which involved banning literally everything to do with piracy, even mentioning it, along with hiding negativity about a game and generally doing damage mitigation. Oh and hiding leaks, like wtf. All leak content hidden and disallowed from posting as if it's some great illegal act.
Willing to bet that it's a common word in the automoderator that gets filtered in a bunch of game subreddits.
When did we stop calling always-online "DRM"? People seem to think it's there because devs want to shoehorn in online features on SP games. It's like they completely forgot it is primarily an anti-piracy measure. An inconvenience which paying customers must bear to prevent an imagined loss of revenue from someone else. And it doesn't even achieve that.
All complaining about DRM stopped around the time subreddits all began shilling for companies in order to get their community managers or devs to participate in the most meaningless ways imaginable by simply saying hello or acknowledging their existence. Which involved banning literally everything to do with piracy, even mentioning it, along with hiding negativity about a game and generally doing damage mitigation. Oh and hiding leaks, like wtf. All leak content hidden and disallowed from posting as if it's some great illegal act.
Willing to bet that it's a common word in the automoderator that gets filtered in a bunch of game subreddits.
My impression at the time was because it was even more odious than "normal" drm so it got its own name for emphasis.