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Client-Server != DRM

by Dean Hofmeyer (unhh) @, Warsaw, IN, Monday, March 25, 2013, 01:19 (4022 days ago) @ Cody Miller


Does this mean World of Warcraft employs DRM? Is the choice truly ‘arbitrary’ when the game takes place in a persistent setting — whether or not I choose to make use of the multiplayer features of the game?


Yes, it does have DRM. The question you need to ask yourself is whether the benefit you reap from it outweighs the restrictions it places on your play. In the case of WoW, there's a large number of people for whom the tradeoff is very much worth it.

You didn't answer the question. Of course WoW has DRM, but are you suggesting that any requirement for a connection to a central server is inherently DRM?


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