Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Online Validation Every Ten Days

Well I won't be pirating Spore or even bothering with Mass Effect so I don't care
 
copy protection that will require online validation every ten days to continue working.
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Uh... what the ****? That's retarded.
I won't be pirating either of them either, but that's just stupid... Validation ONCE would be sufficient.

edit : Actually, no... Will Wright said that Spore wouldn't require an internet connection at all, fucking liar.
 
somone post at another forums, LOL :D
So, basically, you have a piece of wood, and the wall.

The wood is your game, and the wall is your ability to play it.

So how do you keep the two together? You nail it down. Unfortunately, you are forced to use nails that dissolve every ten days.

Good thing EA doesn't build houses. I'd hate to see mine falling down every ten days that I'm not connected to my mortgage website.
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Well, now I'll have to pirate Spore instead of even thinking about buying it.
 
Considering buying spore, then downloading a pirated version that doesn't have the validation, just for the simplicity.

soon piracy groups will be making games for the developers.
 
Well that sucks. I was planning on buying both of them. Now i'll just download the pirated version that wont have to deal with that bullshit.

/shrug I guess they dont want people paying them for their games anymore.
 
It'll be cracked. Then what?

There's no ****ing end to this shit.
 
Scenario:
Most of the world is destroyed in a nuclear war. Your country survives and still has electricity and for some reason you want to play Spore and Mass Effect but the internet has been destroyed. So I won't be able to play any of my singleplayer games that require online activation?

Seriously, why do game devs even bother with protection at all?
Everyone thought Bioshock would be completely uncrackable and it was cracked in less than a week.
 
Krynn72 said:
Well that sucks. I was planning on buying both of them. Now i'll just download the pirated version that wont have to deal with that bullshit.

/shrug I guess they dont want people paying them for their games anymore.
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word.
 
Steamworks would of been preferable, but that only just got released. That copy protection system sounds like ass tbh (we are all thieves!!!) . Still I'll be buying ME when it hit's the shelves anyhows and I'm on the net more than a Cam Whore so it's no biggie for me personally. ;)
 
Well that's certainly one ironic way to go about losing customers.
 
Wow... stupidest thing ever.

I should pirate a cracked copy out of spite!
 
I was gonna buy Spore, but not so sure about Mass "Erect".

It says that this timer of sorts is run via the executable, probably not a good idea to have stated that, cause cracked exe's have been done many times in the past.
 
This kind of copy protection sounds hard to believe. I still think it's a hoax. Let's see if EA is able to disappoint me since I am waiting eagerly for Mass Effect.
Is the news being confirmed by other sources?
 
It's got to be a hoax. If not well then I simply won't be buying (dealt with Securom already with bioshock, never happening again). What kind of idiots would force their customers to deal with such crap after paying $50 for a game?
 
As other people have said, what a great way to lose customers.
 
xlucidx said:
Scenario:
Most of the world is destroyed in a nuclear war. Your country survives and still has electricity and for some reason you want to play Spore and Mass Effect but the internet has been destroyed. So I won't be able to play any of my singleplayer games that require online activation?
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Of all the possible arguments you could have used against Copy Protection, I believe you just picked the worst one possible.
 
securom is even worse than Starforce(never had a problem with starforce)...last time I installed a securom protected game it changed my windows media player to a French installation with no apparent way of reversing it other than re-install...
 
Well, maybe the SecuROM protection used by Mass Effect will not be so bad as we think. I am reading the FAQ on Bioware forums and it seems that the only real annoyance will be the need to re-authenticate (and have a live internet connection) every ten days. Not that I like SecuROM, but it can be done.
Don't know anything about registry tampering and system corruption. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
 
sea said:
I'm still going to buy the game, but I will crack it the moment I'm able to. Even if all it means is connecting to the server to check the key (I assume it doesn't need the disc to do that), it's still a major annoyance and, I expect, a resource hog (I don't want their ****ing processes and rootkits running in the background all the time, if that's how they do it). I have no idea what sort of information they'd be collecting along with the key, as well; it could very well send back things like browsing history, for example.
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I seriously doubt Bioware would let anything like that happen.
 
Bugger, people were wondering what would happen when Bioware was swallowed up? This madness is what happens!
 
But would EA?

I'm having difficulty understanding the point of this... is there some way for a legitimate retail copy of the game to suddenly turn into a pirated version that necessitates this kind of constant check-uppering? This seems like the product of paranoia more than anything, but while the paranoia might be justified, forcing this kind of shit on the consumer, particularly in an (arguably) dwindling market, is not.

Edit - Damn, 2 minutes is a long time around here.
 
I am gonna buy Spore(Already own Mass Effect on 360), and then probably d/l some form of crack.:)
 
This is only going to alienate potential buyers of the games.It won't stop pirating.It will fail just like all the other attempts.
 
Not only do we have to surrender potential good games to be bastardized by consoles but now we have to deal with this spit in the face too. We PC gamers are getting Chinese finger cuffed (Chasing Amy reference too vulgar to explain to young readers) by developers/publishers.

I thought there was some holy alliance of PC developers that are to look out for our best interests, or are they busy touching up their heap-o-shit console games that they will eventually burden us with?

As much as it pains me I may still buy this game because as of now there is nothing else out there.

Are the 1st and 2nd quarters just not viable for sales or something? It seems as though the market for games is dry up until the middle of the 3rd quarter.
 
Bioware is confirming the SecuROM thing. Just one thing before panic: read the FAQ carefully and see the differences between Mass Effect and Bioshock. I am still planning to buy this masterpiece and support Bioware.
 
I thought Bioshock was bad with its validation and its number of installations but this is ludicrous, im all for anti-piracy but surely they could come up with a better way of protection this is just going to be annoying.
 
If I had to choose between cd check and this I would use this. It's more convenient for me.
I just don't understand why they can't do both, if there is no connection then use the cd to play the game.

In any case aren't steam games like this to, I've noticed after a while games won't start in offline mode,
and some times they just won't work at all for some reason in offline mode.

For me this won't matter i crack all my games, I see no reason not too, it's just convenient, i would have
cracked this one too regardless of it's protection.
 
Gray Fox said:
If I had to choose between cd check and this I would use this. It's more convenient for me.
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Yes, if you have a reliable internet connection (at least once every ten days) this kind of protection is not particularly annoying to me.
 
TwwIX said:
This is only going to alienate potential buyers of the games.It won't stop pirating.It will fail just like all the other attempts.
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You know you have to space after punctiations, right? It always annoys me when I see people not spacing after periods or commas. What school did you go to that they taught you that puncuation was a replacement for a space?

It's weird too because I see it everywhere.

Back on topic: This kind of copy protection is dumb, yadda yadda, customers on losing end, etc, etc...
 
Dumb Dude:Hi,why do you think this kind of copyprotection is dumb?I quite like it really.It's quite convenient for a guy like me who has an internet connection that is on 100% of the time.By the way,you're a rambling lunatic.Have fun!
 
I pretty much knew I'd get that type of response, but honestly it had to be said.
 
Oh great ****ing over the consumer again, thanks guys just make life a thousand times easier for pirates.

Gargantou said:
Oh shut up you PC fanboy.
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Shut up console fanboy. Don't think about countering this because frankly you cannot. People here are outraged how PC users get ****ed over. Thus the only people who wouldn't be crying about this are console kids.

Gargantou said:
Dumb Dude:Hi,why do you think this kind of copyprotection is dumb?I quite like it really.It's quite convenient for a guy like me who has an internet connection that is on 100% of the time.By the way,you're a rambling lunatic.Have fun!
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How pray tell is it any better than one single online activation check? For you the consumer it only means the developers hate you. Once the online checks are cracked only legitimate buyers are the ones being scanned. How does this stop piracy? How does this aid the consumer at all?

Kyorisu's crazy arse method to sell PC games.
1. Make game i.e. Spore or Mass Effect (port).
2. Release game initially through digital distribution. Encrypted and missing critical files before launch and release a retail boxed copy that connects to that distribution system.
3. Manage digital version with fancy automatic updates and all the jazz. Do not provide off-line patches.

Theres a thread on steampowered every week where someone asks about integrating their retail copy of x with steam and usually the answer is no. People need to wake up and not only make it a yes but force it. Steam only being used as an example.
 
I'm a console fanboy?

That sure explains that when I bought this PC in late 2006 I only put 1800 euro into it, around 2800 USD.

I guess I should have put in like twice that so I wouldn't qualify as a console fanboy.:(
 
I support this. Piracy is out of control especially with the figures CryTek and Epic have released recently.
 
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