Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Online Validation Every Ten Days

Gargantou said:
I'm a console fanboy?

That sure explains that when I bought this PC in late 2006 I only put 1800 euro into it, around 2800 USD.

I guess I should have put in like twice that so I wouldn't qualify as a console fanboy.:(
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yes you are a console fanboi.
 
Asuka said:
I support this. Piracy is out of control especially with the figures CryTek and Epic have released recently.
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The point is this wont stop piracy at all te paying customer will suffer.I payed for UT3 that p.o.s and and Crysis which was a good game.So people like me that spend $100 every 2 months for games get ****ed.while the guys from Razor1911 and RELOADED are rofling at the sad attempt to stop piracy.
 
Yeah, don't think I will be buying Mass Effect again (already have it for 360). Will definitely buy Spore, but this sort of thing is so annoying--just leave it at code wheels like Monkey Island.
 
Gargantou said:
I'm a console fanboy?

That sure explains that when I bought this PC in late 2006 I only put 1800 euro into it, around 2800 USD.

I guess I should have put in like twice that so I wouldn't qualify as a console fanboy.:(
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It's a generic attack use your bloody head. I cannot fathom a reason why you wouldn't be mildly pissed about this topic as the owner of a PC and presumably someone who plays PC games.

Asuka said:
I support this. Piracy is out of control especially with the figures CryTek and Epic have released recently.
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Haha nice. I wouldn't trust their numbers as far as they can spin them and boy do they spin them.

Now for something fun. Anyone able to find me a pirated version of Twilight of the Arnor for Galciv 2? Not the most popular of games sure but a good example just the same.
 
Kyorisu said:
It's a generic attack use your bloody head. I cannot fathom a reason why you wouldn't be mildly pissed about this topic as the owner of a PC and presumably someone who plays PC games.
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I don't have a head, I lost it in Nam. Anyway, I'm not pissed because I know, like always, within a day or so of the games release, there'll be a crack out.;)
If X can be built, then logically, X can be destroyed.
 
The point is that we shouldn't have to wait for cracks etc. for a game bought at retail to be able to play it without any hindrances.
 
And game devs shouldn't have to protect their games from pirates, because people shouldn't pirate, yet people do it anyway.

Action and Consequence.
 
Gargantou said:
I don't have a head, I lost it in Nam. Anyway, I'm not pissed because I know, like always, within a day or so of the games release, there'll be a crack out.;)
If X can be built, then logically, X can be destroyed.
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Ah then you are on my side of thinking partially. Systems like this are a nuisance that punish people who behave. The technology is similar to what was used on Bioshock, and will only allow gamers to install their game three times - which is fair enough, some might say (until you reformat your machine for the fourth time and want to play the game).

http://games.internode.on.net/content.php?mode=news&id=3047

Gargantou said:
And game devs shouldn't have to protect their games from pirates, because people shouldn't pirate, yet people do it anyway.

Action and Consequence.
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Who said that? They can but at the same time they must surely realise they cannot beat the dedicated cracking groups. Support your customers that buy games , otherwise you will be stuck with nothing but people who download games and crack your protection just to prove you're a wanker for trying to stop something that you know cant be stopped.

Thats all i can type for now as i am on a mission to rid the whole of the interwebs of pron...
 
Albeit I don't agree with the extent of this DRM, I don't think people should pirate it out of malice. Ultimately that sort of thing will drive people away from developing or Porting to the PC if it continues.
 
Any time a grammar cop correct'$ me I do the same.It'5 fun to anger them to !a further ext'en+ .


btw EA = Fail factory
 
99.vikram said:
Added to my "pirate in future" queue.
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This. I may buy it to support them but the excessive protection is outrageous. Hell what if i go on holiday for 2 weeks? Do I need to get my neightbour in to turn on the lights, feed the cat oh and also make sure to validate spore? I don't think so.

BTW what happens if you don't validate it after 10 days.
 
You can play the game, and if you haven't touched the game, and thus not validated for like lets say a month, the game simply validates the next time you start it and you can play. Everything is explained in the thread on the bioware forums.
 
Spore's gonna have a pretty extreme online part to it anyway (borrowed content, profile page-like things), so pirating that one probably isn't so hot of an idea. :p
 
Asuka said:
I support this. Piracy is out of control especially with the figures CryTek and Epic have released recently.
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Did you read the thread? This kind of shit only supports piracy. By supporting this kind of paranoid protection, you are in fact supporting piracy.

I may still buy the games latter when the prices drop, but I certainly wont pay full price because I dont want to support this kind of shit. If they remove it and put it on steam i'll buy them at full price. Or if they just remove it in general.
 
Considering they are published by EA I doubt they will put them on steam :(
 
lol the pirate community will not take very long to figure out a way around this (and any other form of copy protection they can come up with).

I'm buying Spore anyway.
 
When they do shit like this it makes the crackers in the pirating community want it even more. This will be cracked in under two weeks, and in even less time for the second game.
 
Pirates do what they do regardless of DRM. The copy protection of Mass Effect seems acceptable and painless, better than Bioshock's, so I am definitely buying the game.
 
Phew that was close, Spore woulda been my first EA purchase in years.

Bah, the long wait for it made me all but lose interest, this copy protection (read: misguided in-effective measure that only punishes legitimate users) has put me right off.


*flips EA the bird*
 
Spore should be bought and played online, anyone who disagrees is a chuuuuuuuuuuuuump
 
It took them a year to crack splinter cell chaos theory, if this is like that I won't be happy.
 
This really pissed me off when I saw it. Even thought back to something someone had said on here (I believe it was Evo) about the gaming industry starting to harm legitimate users of games. In fact, I read an article just yesterday about old game packaging. It mentioned some of the ridiculous copy protection measures like huge charts and wheels and manuals and stuff. At least that was fun.

It's not particularly bad for someone who has constant access to the internet, but there are a whole load of other issues and questions that it raises. If anything, I can envision this raising pirating of Spore more than anything.

Nice going, EA. Nice going.
 
Druckles said:
This really pissed me off when I saw it. Even thought back to something someone had said on here (I believe it was Evo) about the gaming industry starting to harm legitimate users of games. In fact, I read an article just yesterday about old game packaging. It mentioned some of the ridiculous copy protection measures like huge charts and wheels and manuals and stuff. At least that was fun.
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Aaaah yeah, didn't some games like ask you questions about what's written in the manual and stuff?

There was one game a friend gave us, he'd lost the manual but had written down the answer for 1 question so we used to have to keep restarting the game until it asked that specific question.
Can't even remember what game it was anymore though...
 
I am against draconian copy protection schemes, this is a fact. A lot of people complained about Bioshock but publishers keep using SecuROM, Starforce and so on. The logical conclusion is that these methods are somewhat effective and do work, because I don't think that 2K, EA and other publishers are so masochist to enjoy losing customers. Just a marketing deduction, no personal opinion involved.
(Bioshock, in fact, was a hit)
 
I wish these damn companies would get their heads out of their asses.
 
What is your problem, guys?

None of you have an Internet connection to register the game? :p


As a Spore fan, I find this idea annoying, like waking up too late, losing $2 on a bet, or having a headache, but nothing more.
It definitelly doesn't stop me from legally buying both games.
 
Give me a ****ing break.

It'll be the legit gamers that will face more problems due to this than those that will pirate the game - and it will be cracked in a matter of days.
 
Alterego-X said:
What is your problem, guys?
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The problem is that it wont stop piracy, and it will only get worse and worse for legitimate customers if publishers continue to push more and more ridiculously hindering and completely ineffective shit on their games in the name of "Anti-Piracy".
 
Eejit said:
Aaaah yeah, didn't some games like ask you questions about what's written in the manual and stuff?

There was one game a friend gave us, he'd lost the manual but had written down the answer for 1 question so we used to have to keep restarting the game until it asked that specific question.
Can't even remember what game it was anymore though...
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Hah, yeah. I believe Simon the Sorceror did something similar. As did Exodus. They were epic. Just annoying if you lose the manual, for instance -_-

Alterego-X said:
None of you have an Internet connection to register the game? :p
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I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is we don't want to have an internet connection to register the game every 10 days!
 
:LOL: at krynn's post

also yeah I find this quite bad for obvious reasons. It may not be as bad if it were like once a month or something but 10 days?! The thing is you know you have a problem when people who pay $60 or ?30 at a gamestore and then sit through this crap and people who pay nothing get a better experience.

I can't remember where I read it I think it was evo but it was found through sales that games with copy protection sold LESS than games that did (i.e. sins of a solar empire) and then comparisons were drawn to the music industry and the rise in now DRM free downloads
 
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