4th November 2003, 6:37 PM
The thing is, GR, with FFXI that really IS the only way that it could be played on a technical level. There's no reason, in the case of Prime, on any technical level, where it couldn't just be unlocked via fair means.
Yes, to play a game, you have to buy a TV, have some power outlet, get a system, and so on, but those are REAL requirements, not artificial requirements like with Prime. It would be like buying a 2D game for your PC specifically programmed not to run unless you buy NVidia's latest 3D card. Sure, that's a MASSIVE exxageration, and in fact it's pretty unfair :D, but it's somewhere close to a similar principle.
Yes, to play a game, you have to buy a TV, have some power outlet, get a system, and so on, but those are REAL requirements, not artificial requirements like with Prime. It would be like buying a 2D game for your PC specifically programmed not to run unless you buy NVidia's latest 3D card. Sure, that's a MASSIVE exxageration, and in fact it's pretty unfair :D, but it's somewhere close to a similar principle.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)