cpy5.4下午1:30发布非破解消息！谁来翻译下？

天边寂寞

Let's talk a bit about modern DRMs and their implications on ownership of videogames.

As I'm typing this I'm desperately waiting for a NieR: Automata, as probably most of of you, as well as one for Sniper Elite 4 and Dishonored 2. But despite the long wait, I have no urge to "give in" and just buy these games. Why ?

Not because they're expensive, not because I'm poor or stingy, but because I wont't own these games "enough" once I buy them. I'm typing this text sitting at my desk, next to a shelf filled with NES, Sega Genesis and SNES Cartridges and countless GC, PSX, PS2 and XBox disks. Some of these games are more than 25 years old. But I'm still able to pop one of them in and within seconds and without any sort of issue (having to blow on some of the cartridges aside) I'm able to play them. Same goes for the countless ROMs I downloaded in a fullset.

But will I be able to just dig up NieR: Automata or Sniper Elite 4 in 20 years and give it a play ? Will steam or origin or uplay be still around ? Will my account be still around ? Will I still remember the password to my account ? Will I even own a Disk of the Game (Sniper Elite 4 can't be bought on a CD) ? Will the Disk even contain the game ? Short answer: I probably won't be able to do that, at least not as easily as I'm able to with SNES cartridges.

And this is really the most prominent issue I have with modern games. I don't pirate these games because they "aren't worth" my money, but because I don't want to accept, that I won't really own these games despite paying 60 dollars for them. On the other hand, if I burn my cracked games to a CD and/or backup my archive hard drives sufficiently , I own these games and I will be able to play them without any convoluted account solution even years from now.