Hey Man, well this is Babylon

In this article, Tycho loudly lambastes Electronic Arts’s chosen DRM encoding which will be present in the upcoming PC port of Mass Effect. Sounds awesome of them to say so, right?

But lookee here, they’ve gone and added it to their own game!

That is just not cool, man. Not cool at all. I was looking forward to this game. I really, really hope there is some kind of misunderstanding. If not, this will be yet another game that I can add to the list of “new games which are driving me further and further away from PC gaming.” It is indeed getting close to time for me to purchase an Xbox 360. Thank the gods I’ll soon be living with a proud owner of a PS3. At least the consoles never have to deal with this total BS.

When I spend money on a game, I want to purchase it; what I do not want to do is purchase the right to request permission to be able to play their game.

EDIT:

Here’s the link for the discussion at Penny-Arcade. Here’s the link for the discussion at the Greenhouse forums.