According to a post in the Bioware's forums, upcoming PC game Mass Effect's producer Derek French has confirmed that the game will have rolling DRM, meaning every 10 days you will need to activate the game again over the internet.
"Mass Effect uses SecuROM and requires an online activation for the first time that you play it," French says. "After the first activation, SecuROM requires ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by shaffaaf: u lot havent heard the new news. firstly no CD needs to be there, the SP will be nocd.
secondly, it will only ask for verification when updateing the game via a patch when u download it from them. which IMO is perfectly acceptable.
and has install tokens.
so long as its on the same machine, you have unlitmited, its only limited to different machines. which once again is fine
Same machine...no.... same OS yes, because of windows instability and ease of corrupting data,drivers and the unreinstallable DX and the dulling bloat windoses creates when used for more than a couple months, I run my computer 24/7 and reinstall it about ocne every 2-6 months really depends on how bad it starts acting and you say install tokens do no matter?!
BALLOCKS!!! Besides belittling the consumer it also infringes on the law, first sale doctrine is quite clear and install tokens are harmful to consumers rights and it will only take 1 court case to remove them from being used like the rootkits of old.
Originally posted by link: "There was some discussion last month about the proposed DRM for Mass Effect and Spore that required the game to phone home every ten days. They backed down from that, but have left in that a user is only allowed 3 activations per license key. A license key is burned up when the O/S is reinstalled, when certain hardware is upgraded (EA refuses to disclose specifics of what), and possibly when a new user is set up in Windows. Only in its first month, some users are already locked out of their games from trying troubleshooting techniques to get the game running."
Originally posted by link: Last month, many reports came out on the obscene DRM that Bioware and EA were planning to deploy on newer games, Mass Effect and Spore in particular. The outcry from the community led to a quick backtracking of their original goals. EA, for instance, opted to dispose of the ?phone-home? functionality of the DRM and instead switched to a limited activation policy. In essence, the software would no longer phone home every 10 days but could only be installed 3 times.
That ?friendlier? but still unfriendly method of authentication has now proven itself to be flawed, as it seems that people are burning through activations so quickly that they have used them up less than a month after purchasing the game. Something as simple as replacing a video card can use up an activation, and gamers who constantly upgrade would obviously be hit by this pretty quickly. Interestingly, the solution provided by EA was for someone to buy another copy of the game.
A single OS reinstall followed by a GPU replacement leading to someone being forced to buy another copy of a game or do without seems pretty ridiculous, and just goes to show how DRM is nothing more than companies punishing paying customers rather than punishing pirates.
remember this is a public announcement from sony "if you are not doing anything illegal, drm......"
