Lol, this.

Thank you, Claudiolphigenia, for being the stereotypical nit-wit who embodies the Kotaku comments section, and makes us all look worse.

It's because people like Claudiolphigenia just don't get why women can't accept their place in these games, and are offended that anyone would stand up for themselves on any level- even privately- and deny them the satisfaction of having themselves be catered to.

It's cool to allow optional offline mode too?

And it's not even the first post using this new, supposedly loathsome system. He's talking about next week. So cool.

There's this holistic 'women cannot be intellectual' prejudice that you're basically exemplifying to a 'T'. You're right, it's not specifically about the vocabulary. But the fact that you view this as 'a condescending lecture' is part of the problem. What exactly makes this condescending? I've seen a hundred…

I really, REALLY hope that that's another fire/fighting starter evolution. We need another one of those...

That's cool, and you're too kind for the offer.

trollolololol.

Need is not relevant to the discussion, because you're assuming some form of justification necessity. There doesn't need to be a just reason for pirating. Pirating just is. Similarly, there is no wholly just reason for adding DRM to products, or denying pirates the ability to download. You can argue that companies…

Stealing does not deprive a company of any actual product, leaving them the ability to continue to sell it to people who desire to purchase it. You can create your own 'pirates are horrible people' mythos, and feel however you want about it. But what is being deprived to a company is the existence of 'potential…

This is the best, yet least expected, message that I found attached to that series of comments.

One of the problems, though, with that argument, is that by the same measure that this DRM full-package 'go with it, or go without it' mentality is accurate, so is the idea that companies should be judging their games by the sales, rather than by the numbers of people who pirate it.

1) Uncontested.

:D +1

Although one might be able to suggest that this proves that the game should have been programmed to allow for this in the first place.

I am what I eat?

Well, the problem is that they ARE thinking about it. But, instead of thinking about it as 'we should sell our product through Steam, because they're a good company that produces a superior service', they think about it as 'we want to make money that way too, without incorporating the underlying logic that makes…