If customers do not come online after ten days, the game will cease to function. "After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run," added French.
The check is run when users activate the game's executable file, with the first re-check coming within "5 days remaining in the 10 day window."
According to French, Maxis' Spore will also make use of the same scheme... (emphasis mine - fitbabits)
...and really bad eggs...
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You have to be joking, this is exactly the kind of game I take on vacation with me and just play on the plane or something like that. How the fuck do I get online in the desert you stupid fucks.
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I know people who still play SimCity 2000 on their PC's. Watch Maxis take the DRM servers offline after the game stops selling (like MS did with MSN Music) and everyone is screwed.
DRM is always poorly thought out.
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You have to be joking, this is exactly the kind of game I take on vacation with me and just play on the plane or something like that. How the fuck do I get online in the desert you stupid fucks.
Its not that hard really. Everyone will simply download a bit torrent of the game with free crack and play it. Save your cash for developers who respect you as a customer and buy their games. No reason to get mad and all.
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Its not that hard really. Everyone will simply download a bit torrent of the game with free crack and play it. Save your cash for developers who respect you as a customer and buy their games. No reason to get mad and all.
I am pretty pissed off though. They've been hyping it for like 2 years and now I don't know if I'll bother getting it or not. It's annoying to say the least.
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Well, I will probably still buy the game, but I will also be jumping on that pre-release torrent when it shows up so I can mount the image and use the crack to play the game. So, congrats on providing a bit more bandwidth on the pirate version of Spore guys.
Its not that hard really. Everyone will simply download a bit torrent of the game with free crack and play it. Save your cash for developers who respect you as a customer and buy their games. No reason to get mad and all.
Yes there is, with a cracked version you will miss out on a HUGE portion of this game. All the online interaction will (most likely) be unavailable.
EA just doesn't get it. They are in an arms race with people who view the race as fun they have been challenged to participate in, and not as work. I just can't get over how awesome Sins of a Solar Empire is, they put man-hours into the game, not into DRM.
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PC Developers and Publishers have every right to attempt to secure their games from piracy.
Sadly, it (copy protection) causes more problems for legitimate purchasers than it does for pirates.
I support developers who try and find new ways to prevent piracy. Now if this method requires online validation of the product, and then it's good for 10 day periods with NO active copy protection (IE: you don't need a disk in the drive, or don't need to login), then I'll consider this a step in the right direction.
If the product requires online validation, OR a disc in the drive after that 10 day period expires, I'm ok with that as well.
And can someone explain the justification for a game phoning home a minimum of every ten days to prevent piracy, rather than just once during/after install? (It sounds like it runs a check every time you launch the game and it can connect, but it'll let you play up to 10 days if it doesn't connect...)
Forget Spore, then. I don't pirate games. That's morals, there, and for pirates this won't matter anyway. I don't need their bullshit SecuROM surveillance.
And can someone explain the justification for a game phoning home a minimum of every ten days to prevent piracy, rather than just once during/after install? (It sounds like it runs a check every time you launch the game and it can connect, but it'll let you play up to 10 days if it doesn't connect...)
The full story is about Mass Effect, and that it will also use this copy protection on PC. I'm fairly sure it will just phone home once, at the end of 10 days, to ensure that in that time, your CD-Key hasn't been proven as pirated yet.
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