Shinlock on 10 September 2008
| Kyros said: Oh, that's right, you can only install 3 times, but how many people actually install their game more than 3 times? I have installed Diablo2 and Starcraft at least 5 times on 3 different PCs. Besides people like to sell their used copies which is effectively killed by this approach. Which is also the reason EA does this bullshit. Spore was available sans DRM before it was even released commercially. The only people inconvenienced by DRM are legal customers. EA SUCKS. |
EA have gone on record saying they dislike the second hand market/reselling market. They want it to stop, they get zero money from it (ie you selling it or a store like gamestop selling it second hand). I see this as a testing ground of what could pop up in console generations to come.
ie each copy of a game has its own serial number (stored on disk), and your console has one.. every time you run a game it'll check against their records, if it matches then you can play, if not you'll be denied (first time play acts as auto registering).. in the next generation or 2 of consoles, everyone's console will be connected online making this crappy stuff all possible.
