* The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena 24th April

Bizarre said:
Unlimited installs on 3 machines only, but if you upgrade cpu, motherboard, memory, graphics, reformat or change the OS on any of those three machines, then that'll count as an install. Whichever way you look at it, it's inevitable that you're going to be left with a game that'll refuse to install after it's been activated three times. I was looking forward to it as well but there's no chance I'll be shelling out £30 for what's basically a rental.

To those who say they're only going to install it once anyway, that's great stuff, if that's the case, do you mind giving it to me when you're finished with it (I'll pay postage of course). Thought not. :p
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wrong, this has been addressed on the official Atari forums by Atari Mods , i quote
DRM Explanation Part 2
OK guys, first I want to say thanks for being patient, now to get right to it.

There has been a lot of talk lately about DRM and how it was implemented in Riddick and there is a lot of misinformation being tossed around. I just wanted to get word out to you guys that we are listening to your concerns but I also wanted to let you know a few facts.

As of today only about 10% of all the Riddick PC games sold have been activated more than once.

One Riddick serial number alone had over 50,000 activation attempts, so people do try and pirate games.

Only four people have been unable to play on the PC due to DRM. In all cases the parties involved first tried to activate illegal serials. They were banned initially but then were manually unbanned when they purchased legal copies of the game.

DRM is not designed to keep you from playing the game, nor is it designed to combat any after market sales. After market sales for PC games are nowhere near what they are for console games anyway, aside from ebay, craigslist and yard sales I can’t even really think of anywhere to get used PC games.

I want to make it clear that there are people who are monitoring activations so if and when we get into an issue with people not being able to play that issue will be addressed. Should the case get so severe it effects a large portion of the gamers, more activations will be set in place as needed. Further down the line the DRM will be removed and a new unprotected exe will be released.

So to summarize if you buy Riddick legally on the PC we are going to do our best to make sure you can play it for as long as you want.
I hope this helps answer some of your questions / concerns.
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http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11153032&postcount=1 <SOURCE>

lets face it we all know people who pirate software, its ripe ! even more so on consoles in my experience.. for those of us who purchase our PC games legit we dont want obtrusive methods spoiling are fun/experience so obviously we dont want DRM's and activations

... but, with Riddick2 i personally dont know anyone who has a working pirate version and im glad, sadly this shows that the draconian method of protection has initially worked.

I have no doubt it will be cracked and legions of pirates will be enjoying it for free .. one day .. sadly !!! also theres another thread for DRM discussion on the forum but hopefully the above statement does help with those worried about activation problems
 
eekfek said:
wrong, this has been addressed on the official Atari forums by Atari Mods , i quote
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11153032&postcount=1 <SOURCE>
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No mate, I don't believe I was wrong. The post that you quoted never contradicted anything that I said, infact here's the same Mod pretty much backing up what I posted.

DRM Explanation Part 1 said:
The protection on the PC version of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is an activation system with online authentication required the first time you install the game on a machine. The activation code lets you install the game on up to 3 machines, with an unlimited number of installs on each assuming that you don’t change any major hardware in your PC or re-install your operating system.

If you reach the maximum number of installations you can contact the Atari hotline and if it’s a legitimate request you can get a new activation code.

We implement this protection in an effort to avoid early piracy.
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Source: http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11142022&postcount=1

Hopefully this draconian method of protection is only aimed at preventing early piracy, and Atari will release a revoke tool further down the line. Sure I'll be a tad jealous of the guys playing it tomorrow as it's fair to say that I was really looking forward to the game, especially as I thought EFBB was one of the most underated fps's ever. However, I refuse to buy it until a revoke tool or (even better) the DRM is removed via a patch, alah Bioshock.

Anyway, since I'm not buying this game (yet) I shall leave this thread alone. Enjoy. :)
 
hehe, you quoted the first Mod post outlining the initial reasoning behind DRM/Activations .. but since it caused an outrage they re-defined it in the second MOD post which clears up the confusion !! silly billy :p

activations on release did cause some minor problems which have been resolved, Atari have said they are monitoring the proceedings with caution therefore if circumstances dictate they will change the system to help . Therefore theres no need to make people who are looking into buying the game worry about a problem thats not infact there ..

ahwell, day off 2moro lets hope the game is worth all this fuss !
 
Not mentioned in the console forum, but got my 360 preorder today. Christ, I don't remember Butcher Bay being quite this difficult! Getting my ass handed to me very early in!
 
The game comes with an updated version of Butcher Bay which I'm really looking forward to, rather than the new content....which judging by reviews is rather disappointing.
 
Another console buy it seems.. further convincing developers that people like consoles better rather than disliking draconian copy protection methods

damn shame was looking forward to this on pc :(
 
I have played Butchers 3 times previously, once on Xbox and twice on PC. The reviews have been luke warm for Dark Athena so I can't justfy buying the game for this alone. It would have been worth buying if the graphics for Butchers had been completely revamped but by the sounds of things it they have just revamped the engine, shaders and lighting.

This was one of my most anticipated title for this year but I will wait untill it hits the bargain bin.
 
I was hoping that they would have reworked Butchers assets (if that's the word), but by all accounts it is just a new engine using old models, textures, animations etc. I may be wrong.
 
To be honest, with Butchers Bay, I'm glad they only updated the engine and graphics. The reason why is that Butchers Bay was a great game. If they had tried and fooled around to improve it then they would have made a mess of it and ruined it.

From all accounts Dark Athena is not bad - just not as good as Butchers Bay - but it is still very good. The grizly death scenes make me want to play it.. and the sneaking around in the dark basically assassinating people is great!


M.
 
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