Starcraft 2 - worth buying?

[VinnieJones]

(a) It has pretty tough online anti-piracy protection. You have to set up a batle.net account and register the key to play at all. Then when you play it is by default with an internet connection. You can play offline, but you need to re-register the game online every 30 days, so don't expect to go off to a desert island without internet access for a few years and bring along SC2 as your one computer game.

This is some of the biggest @#$%^&*( I've seen yet. The federal government needs to step up and make a ruling on behavior like this. Stuff like this, and limited reinstall really bother me. Nystul got it right, this is a lease not a purchase. Arrrrrrgh!!

Ummm....getting the federal government involved in something as piddly as a game is rather . . .extreme. On top of that, it restricts freedom of enterprise, which is loosely tied to freedom of expression (via the medium of video game).

I'd rather see the federal government get it's affairs in order and fix our broken economy. Oh, and regulate naked credit default swaps. And eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. And clean up the environment. And build a decent rail system. You get the idea.

While I agree that having to re-register your game via internet connection every 30 days is a crock of sh!#, asking the government to do something about it is overkill and a bad idea. We could just as effectively fix it by organizing some sort of boycott or protest. If we could get some major players like Husky, HD, WhiteRa, and some Korean players to sign on and talk about it in their shoutcasts, it would generate support from the fan-base. Enough fans start clamoring about it and Blizzard, as a business, HAS to listen.

Someone needs to read the EULA all the way through and see if the 30 day reactivation period in any way could affect the "implied right to use" of the product purchased. I mean, if I had to re-register my Avenged Sevenfold CDs every 30 days, I'd never buy A7X again. Oh, and I'd sue them for my money back. That's in glaring violation of the "fair use" clause inherent in the purchasing rights of the consumer. Sure, I can't modify it or transfer it, but it's still mine. And I think that's what you're trying to say.

And I agree.

Now who wants to help me start a petition?

-Loki

Essentially you've got it, however I would like to see a ruling regarding ownership/lease of software since it's rather fuzzy these days. And it's not just games, but software and now music as well. Essentially electronic products.