EA's attempt to fix drm, what do you guys think?

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just saw this, did a quick search and didnt see any posts on it; just wondering what you guys make of this?

http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/

apparently this ends the limit on how many installs you can do of a game.

seems to work in a similar way to Itunes.

wondering what your take on it is, a good thing or a cop out?

appologies if this thread has been done before and i just missed it.
 
If it looks and smells like a turd, it's probably a turd.

IE what I'm trying to say is that DRM smells and looks like a turd and any reincarnation of anything similar should be discarded.

DRM shouldn't exist..
 
Strife212 said:
Steam is DRM :p
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But Steam's completely non-intrusive for typical users like myself.

I've had to ring up Ubisoft before, to re-authorise a game I paid for. Anyone who pirated the game won't have had any such issue.

It's actually ridiculous, and only harms legit customer.
 
I posted this before but anyway, burnout Paradise has the De Auth option Vista games folder when right clicking.
 
So they add an extra layer of complexity to their DRM system, OR they could do the sensible thing and remove DRM completely. As we saw with games like Spore, putting DRM on a game increases piracy rather than decreases it.
 
This still doesn't seem to cover what happens if your PC dies completely and you can't deauthorise the installation.
 
Rroff said:
This still doesn't seem to cover what happens if your PC dies completely and you can't deauthorise the installation.
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You have to ring them. It's happened to me, and fortunately was fairly easy to resolve, though very annoying.
 
Rroff said:
This still doesn't seem to cover what happens if your PC dies completely and you can't deauthorise the installation.
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Indeed.

What really annoys though is the fact that if things carry on down this route if we want to format and re-install an OS we'll now be getting into a situation where we have to spend time uninstalling everything first, which to be honest is just a pain in the backside.
 
Don't like these uninstall/revoke tools or any games that limit activations and require you to call up some number just to be able to play your game.

When I want to rebuild my PC, I don't sit there and uninstall all my games or run revoke tools. I boot up from the OS disk, blat the partitions and kick of the install. Why should I waste hours uninstalling or revoking their crap, especially as the pirates don't have to put up with that rubbish as it gets ripped out of the pirate versions anyway, so they are basically only causing hastle to the actual customers who bought the game in the first place, lol.

Same goes for having to ring/email the company's to get activations credited, I got caught out with RFactor and it's activations, everytime I rebuild my PC I have to email them and wait anywhere up to a week before they reactivate the game. It's sad, but these days I check the official forums for every PC game I'm thinking of buying, if it has any kind of limited activation then I don't purchase it. I've got nothing against other forms of DRM though, i.e. online activation (with no limits), disk checsk, account based activation.

I sometimes wish they would go back to the good old days where you had to enter a word from the manual, or use a code wheel (Monkey Island 2 on Amiga) or a colour grid card (Jet Set Willy on the Speccy) Now that was copy protection ;) of course it didn't work back then either, and whilst I don't pirate games these days, At the tender young age of around 10 I may have recreated the colour chart for JSW using a sheet of A4 and a large selection of felt tip pens :D
 
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