Document Archive: Press Protection (August 11, 2013)

[Bandit LOAF]

Today we have DRM... and in the day we had password protection. Instead of a special CD key, Origin had to send reviewers a 'cheat sheet' for logging in to Wing Commander I, scanned here!

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Original update published on August 11, 2013

 

[Wedge009]

Aww, this is just going to make us lazy when it comes to replaying WC1...

 

[ChrisReid]

The ball started rolling in 1996 with Kilrathi Saga! At least SNES made you write down those savegame codes.

Can you even imagine a game shipping today that makes you scour stats on some blueprints to launch the game?

 

[Wedge009]

In this age of instant gratification, I suspect a lot of people would give up and play something else.