C&C: Red Alert 3 Copy Protection Plans

If you uninstall and reinstall 5 times, you won't lose any of your installs, you'll get them back after uninstalling. You just have to be connected to the internet, that's it.​

From their forums.

That's a lot better than I originally thought. I've installed and uninstalled and installed over and over because of reinstalls/system upgrades etc. Just have to remember to uninstall before I reformat or anything.
 
Sounds too good to be true to me,

If you can get the activations back by un-installling then its an excellent system, made even better by not having to have the disc in the drive.

As long as the activations are returned to you im a happy chappy.

I install drivers an such all the time and re-build my machine (Gaming Rig) at least twice a month lol.

Use my laptop as my work/important stuff machine, that never gets rebuilt unless it really needs it lol.
 
That's a lot better than I originally thought. I've installed and uninstalled and installed over and over because of reinstalls/system upgrades etc. Just have to remember to uninstall before I reformat or anything.

But thats just a waste of time. If I'm formatting my PC, its because its a quick and simple fix. Just nuke the hard drive and start again, hardly takes any time. But with this new copy protection, I would have to uninstall everything installed on my PC before formatting? Who wants to do that?
 
Give it a day or two and the crackers will have this bypassed and running with less hassle than the original game.
 
I don't mind stuff like this as long as its done correctly. If you manage to install the game 5 times then you deserver to ring them
 
This activations nonsense is a joke. I appreciate you're not really buying the game when you hand over your money for it (just paying for a licence to use it ala Windows), but these arbitrary restrictions are hugely annoying.
 
They may do a Bioshock style "remove DRM after everyone who is going to buy it has" patch...
 
I don't mind stuff like this as long as its done correctly. If you manage to install the game 5 times then you deserver to ring them

If this gets played as long as RA2 I'd be amazed if anybody *doesn't* manage to reach 5 installs and by that point there's probably more chance of an asteroid collision wiping us all out than EA actually continuing to have the activation servers on :p
 
If you uninstall and reinstall 5 times, you won't lose any of your installs, you'll get them back after uninstalling. You just have to be connected to the internet, that's it.​

From their forums.

That sounds pretty good, just need to remember to uninstall before reinstalling windows.

Rather they didn't have it, but sounds a lot better than there other attempts.
 
Think this is the way all software will go. 5 times is not bad its the same as windows.

What would annoy me would be having to activate after a hardware change as thats more likely to happen than a reinstall, but spore hasn't asked me after I change my gcard
 
Having to activate online and only 5 times, "life happens"? wow the cheek of it, all to play a game, what's wrong with cd keys and cd copy protection, where will things end, pathetic, if people accept this crap there will be no end to it.
 
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