> I asked you to post your favorite (commonly known) game/sport to play or watch and you failed miserably at it.

Yes, I ignored it 'cause it had nothing to do with the point I was trying to make.

And it looks like I failed to make you understand my point. Not once but twice. Well, that's too bad.

> This is not about game options are in using in game mecanics to get an advantage.
> This is about preventing third party software...

I'm not talking about in game options alone, I'm talking about all the possible things one can do to improve (cheat if you will) your edge.

Everybody can install third party software (be it legal to the game or not), which makes the level playing field argument none-sense.

This is about sacrificing privacy for games, which is a bad thing. Humans will always try to cheat/find the edge, it is in their nature.

> are you serious?

Yes I am serious, actually I'm superserious.

The "level playing field" argument the article talks about is BS. If anybody can use some option (be it morally good or bad!!!) the playing field _is_ level.

So, yes, sacrificing privacy for a so called level playing field is stupendous to say the least.

> How much privacy are you willing to sacrifice in the interests of a level playing field?

None whatsoever! We are talking about effing games here!

And like someone else already mentioned: This "option" can be used by everybody, hence the playing field _is_ level.

Mmmmm..... there's always a smarter fish in the ocean.....

I stand corrected!

I beg to differ....

If humans destroy the ozone layer, everything living dies and a bare rock going approximately 107278.87 km/h is all that is left.

You are not all that public.....

I see this when I use the link you gave:

Sign up for Facebook to connect with Lisa K LaForest Schreiner.

Porn? Video games? Or a combination of the two?

99%+ of people have no way of printing that character aside from googling "o with a line through it" and hitting Ctrl+V.

You raise a good point Sony's BetaMax system drown in a haze of pathetic VHS Consortium clones... By any reasonable measure it was a superior platform.... save one very important measure.... ubiquity...

YMMV

More and more games are using newer DRM (e.g. newer versions of Securom) that lock the game to your hardware instead of requiring the CD (e.g. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 has such DRM).

The benefit to the publisher with this is that they can produce one version of the game for both digital sale and retail stores and from there only one set of patches.