Try reading a little deeper into it.

Quoted from the Ars Technica article, from back when Slashdot originally ran the article.

It might interest you to know that the gun doesn't fire itself. What it does is control the trigger pull. Take a look at the Ars Technica article on it. Or the original Slashdot article.

No...people want to see the gimmick in action, so they go download it, even if they have zero interest in the game itself.

I think this was hugely skewed by the announcement of the pirated version "feature". People see the pirated version as a novelty. If I were to buy this game, I'd go grab a pirated copy just for the kicks and giggles of seeing this. I'd hazard a guess that a ton of people downloaded it just to see the (awesome) implementation of DRM. Now, if they had just released the game, and then in the support forums people started noticing this, and eventually they 'fessed up to the shenanigans, then maybe I'd believe the pirated/legitimate stats. But because they announced it, the stats are horribly skewed.

And yet it's a much better summary of the situation than the OP was.

I can't speak for the "hoops" bit, but the user interface of Unity is never going to work for me. Here's why. First, it was designed for a touch interface. Large icons, restricting multi window arrangements, integrating the program menus into the system menus, the list goes on.

When I want to run four applications, each in their own window, possibly multiple instances of each, I don't want to have to click on the individual window to switch the system dropdowns to my program's dropdowns so I can access them. I don't want to have to play with the menus in my primary monitor, I want to use them wherever the application window is, which may be in any of my 3 monitors.

This isn't the only set of reasons, and sure, I can configure it to work differently. But I get it without any config in xUbuntu.

Try xUbuntu. I will admit, it's been a bit since I used a GUI via SSH on my local machine, but last time I used it, it worked flawlessly.

I'm regretting spending my mod points earlier today, as this is exceptionally insightful and informative, cutting through the BS and posturing normally surrounding the DRM discussion and focuses on reality.

Actually, I first installed it (under great protest) when WotC discontinued their DnD character builder application for the Windows desktop.

But a game without a storyline can leave the actual gameplay without a direction. Without a reason to do what the game wants you to do. A good solid storyline can make a game work in ways that no amount of graphics improvements can. And a railroaded story without any moral or emotional conflict is barely worth playing.

Check in the men's section instead. Bigger pockets over there.

And when common sense isn't anymore.

This is the key point that gets lost in the win8 hate. Windows 8 is a touch interface. And as such, it makes sense. What doesn't make sense, and is the huge mistake that is costing MS marketshare is trying to push a touch screen interface onto ALL devices.

No, Ubuntu post-Unity is an abomination, and it's NOT OK. I'd run it before win8, but only just barely. I've been running xUbuntu and kUbuntu (and even fUduntu, no that's not a typo), but not Ubuntu with that Unity crap.