Spore, Mass Effect DRM Phone Home For Single-Player Gaming 900
Tridus writes "The PC version of Mass Effect is going to require Internet access to play (despite being a single-player game), as its DRM system requires that it phone home every 10 days. Sadly, Spore will use the same system. This will do nothing to stop piracy of course, but it will do a heck of a good job of stopping EA's new arch-enemy: people playing their single player games offline." Is this better or worse than requiring a CD in the drive to play? Update: 05/07 17:17 GMT by T : According to a message from Technical Producer Derek French (may require a scroll-down) on the Bioware forums, there is indeed an internet connection required, but only for activation, not for all future play. Update: 05/08 04:10 GMT by T : Mea culpa. As reader David Houk points out, the 10-day window is in fact correct as initially described, so don't count on playing this on any machine without at least some Internet connectivity.
Re:Annoying (Score:5, Funny)
I've never seen a more useless company than SecuROM.
watch the pirated exe skyrocket in downloads (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks..... (Score:2, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bigger Worry: A backdoor is worse than a CD. (Score:5, Funny)
The work around... (Score:5, Funny)
Rem SPORE.BAT
@ECHO OFF
DATE (DATE-10)
SPORE.EXE
DATE (DATE+10)
Enjoy,
Re:My worry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FFS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bigger Worry: A backdoor is worse than a CD. (Score:3, Funny)
Just imagine, you spend $20.00 on a DVD. Then you have to go on the Internet to register the DVD and provide a credit card that can be billed when you watch the DVD. Then every time you pop the DVD in the player it runs a check to verify that you have registered the DVD and have a valid credit card that is charged $5.00 every time you play it. That is brilliant! The companies selling these won't go out of business, they will have a guaranteed revenue stream from all those DVDs out there.
I wonder if they have patented this idea yet? Need to check and file one right away if they haven't.
Re:Bigger Worry: A backdoor is worse than a CD. (Score:3, Funny)
For the record, I'm with you. One of my favorite C64 games was "Strike Fleet"
Hooray EA. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bigger Worry: A backdoor is worse than a CD. (Score:3, Funny)
I am altering the EULA. Pray I do not alter it any further.
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