Are you inferring here that "DRM-free" and "free to play" are analogous?
The single player component should be free of rental stipulations e.g. install limits, yeah, if that's what you're suggesting
Inferring? Do you mean implying?
This is the 2nd or 3rd time you've read a response of mine without reading the post I'm responding to. Here is jonneymendoza's suggestion #7:
Given that Warhead is a single player campaign, it makes no sense for Crytek to give it out for free. But they actually did offer the MP portion with only a serial code to play, just as jonney suggested.My advice to games publishers is this:
In each game, include a Serial Code. And then include a Multiplayer online aspect to your game. If people want to play that online component they have to login through your servers and have their Serial authorized by your authentication servers otherwise they won't be able to join any online games that are in progress.
Give the Pirates the Single-Player for free, but make them pay to play online.
So if you feel that strongly about it, then pay the $30 and only play the MP portion. $30 is still cheaper than a number of other MP games out there.
Neither Crysis Warhead nor Wars has installation limits; of course, you guys aren't aware of this because you're busy speaking out against a game you heard had DRM but you're not exactly sure how it works in each case and you're not exactly sure what the hell you're talking about...but hell it looks popular and it's fun to fight the good fight when you're young. The fact is that it takes zero energy to sit in your computer chair and bitch on an internet forum and not actually have to live up to your own stated convictions.
Why don't you guys take all this energy and apply it to politics or human rights or environmental issues?