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item: Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Online Validation
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Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Online Validation |
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Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on May 7, 2008 - 6:35 PM
Noticed this one on ggmania, BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days to continue working. According to French, Maxis' Spore will also make use of the same scheme: "[Electronic Arts] is ready for us and getting ready for Spore, which will use the same system." French also noted that the online requirement will be clearly labeled on the games' packaging.
Mass Effect uses SecuROM and requires an online activation for the first time that you play it. Each copy of Mass Effect comes with a CD Key which is used for this activation and for registration here at the BioWare Community. Mass Effect does not require the DVD to be in the drive in order to play, it is only for installation. After the first activation, SecuROM requires that it re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez'd and gets banned). Just so that the 10 day thing doesn't become abrupt, SecuROM tries its first re-check with 5 days remaining in the 10 day window. If it can't contact the server before the 10 days are up, nothing bad happens and the game still runs. After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run. Well, along with a lot of other people, I guess I won't be buying Mass Effect and Spore then.
Source: ggmania
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| 5/7/2008 9:59 pm |
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Moonbogg
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The author of this article states they won't be buying either of these games with the copy protection. Why not? I find the online varification system more than reasonable. Developers need to protect their products from theft and if people aren't willing to accept theft countermeasures then PC gaming WILL die because "PC" will soon be synonomous with "get robbed blind" for game companies.
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| 5/7/2008 10:31 pm |
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Cybermatrix911
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Ok Sounds like some People Might have to buy a Broadband Connection with this Game
Would be a very expensive game then
Yeah I think Developers should protect their products.
Only us pc gamers have to spend money on new hardware to play new games but now it seems internet connection is beeing demanded of us aswell.
I know most of us have net connection but there are people out there with no Net connection
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| 5/8/2008 12:39 am |
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rickyboy
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most people have high speed internet these days. pc gaming will die if something doesn't work so please dont crack the online cd check.
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| 5/8/2008 1:04 am |
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Stoner-Pimp
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It's a known fact that pirates always (ALWAYS) beat the systems, so what happens now is legit customers get shafted by the new and more intrusive copy protection, for some it may be more than reasonable BUT for many others (myself included, i sure won't buy these games now) we simply feel it's getting to much now (whats next when this gets cracked, daily/hourly online checks?), this sort of copy protection is far from reasonable, there treating the legit customers like criminals.
Companies should be trying to get more support from there customers by treating them decently NOT trying to drive them away by treating them criminals, and this sort of protection will do exactly that.
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| 5/8/2008 2:37 am |
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Lyla
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I have to agree, it puts me off buying and using the product, I just feel being forced to allow a game to connect to the internet to "activate" every 10 days with it trying 5 days after the last activation is far too aggresive. 30 days maybe, but 10 = no ty. Go on a 2 week trip off the net and find your game is deactivated within 6 days of it, ridiculous.
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| 5/8/2008 6:17 am |
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gmavignier
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I don't like at all the new copy protection. We don't own software companies anything after we have bought their products. Still most games like Spore and Mass Effect, beeing all time online and all, really require some sort of verification. I gues it could be done via username and not software. It could associate a screen name to a certain CD key there for a single key could only be used by one player. I am still buying Spore as it's an amazing game but now I am not so sure about custom contents like other Will Wright's games had.
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| 5/8/2008 11:27 am |
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DLD
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It's gonna be "worked around" anyway, so this is just one more useless & false grumble about "piracy",etc., whereas the truth is this:
=Software companies earn a lot of money, whole lot of money by 1) selling titles and 2) being sponsored by hardware producers for keeping the PC users (first of all: gamers) performance/quality-hungry, which means that, even if it is not necessary for the specific game to run at the desired picture/audio quality, they organize the structure of it's "engine" in such a manner that the game requires more gigabytes, gigahertz etc to achieve the desired fps.
The games (and other kind of software) sell the hardware=
So, this is just a greed. We made money. Good. What do we want then? Well, yet more money. That's it. By what they really sell, they cover their budget, get some profit and then they say to themselves: "well, wouldn't that be great to squeeze something from those beggars who use our product "illegally"!"
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