Thanodai Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 I was just curious what everyone thought about EA's announcement to use SecuROM on Mass Effect and Spore? For those of you who do not know, essentially it runs a check with EA every 20 days to make sure you have a "valid" copy installed on your machine. The problem is, if it can't connect to the server, the game is disabled and it becomes unplayable. Personally, I feel that this is ludicrous to make basically offline games required to have an internet connection. I know HL2 has a similar security function, but there are workarounds. Your feelings? -T- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Depends if I feel like buying it... Or just downloading it. (joking of course) It does kinda screw over anyone who doesn't have a reliable internet connection on their gaming computer, and who has been waiting for a good long term single player game. (since Oblivion was kinda a bust, and was released over a year ago). Beyond that, it doesn't make too much difference for other people who have internet connections. They would be wanting to connect to the server every now and then for creatures to populate their worlds anyway. 20 days really isn't unreasonable. and as mentioned, there are workarounds, even for those with legal copies. It's an unfortunate sign of the times, games need copy protection so that people can't just download them (they will anyway, but atleast it'll stop the stupid people). Atleast this is better than some I've heard about, which ended up breaking even legal, valid copies because something wasn't being registered right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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