{"id":39655,"date":"2009-11-10T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/1201576879.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-10T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:25:52","slug":"buyers-who-purchased-modern-warfare-2-via-steam-discover-drm-puts-them-2-days-behind-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39655","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Who Purchased Modern Warfare 2 Via Steam Discover DRM Puts Them 2 Days Behind Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about video games, we sometimes hear that Valve&#8217;s Steam is one of the few examples of &#8220;DRM that works,&#8221; but that&#8217;s hard to accept when you hear ridiculous stories like this one.  Apparently people who downloaded <i>Modern Warfare 2<\/i> via Steam, expecting to be able to play the game today (along with everyone else who bought it in a store today) have discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/181801\/pc_modern_warfare_2_locked_in_steam_time_vault.html\/\" >the DRM has been setup so you can&#8217;t actually play the game until Thursday<\/a>.  Ouch.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091105\/1125476808.shtml\">yet another example<\/a> suggesting that Infinity Ward really does not care at all about PC gamers.  The game will likely sell millions of copies anyway, but it&#8217;s really amazing to see how badly the company treats its PC gamer fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/1201576879.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/1201576879.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091110\/1201576879&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f45a58987ad64069acc35b4a3e10259c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f45a58987ad64069acc35b4a3e10259c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=koRlkwYZ4dI:HEmsRCfdqVQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=koRlkwYZ4dI:HEmsRCfdqVQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=koRlkwYZ4dI:HEmsRCfdqVQ:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/koRlkwYZ4dI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about video games, we sometimes hear that Valve&#8217;s Steam is one of the few examples of &#8220;DRM that works,&#8221; but that&#8217;s hard to accept when you hear ridiculous stories like this one. Apparently people who downloaded Modern Warfare 2 via Steam, expecting to be able to play the game today (along with everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}