EA's anti piracy screwing up PC Mass Effect.

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BenKenobi88 said:

A crack after buying the game is fine with me though, I could totally understand that if you don't have constant internet.

But yeah, that's why I love Steam. It requires internet for the initial activation, but it's fine after that, except for a few instances where it tries to update itself, fails, and then I can't play any of my games (my internet died during a storm last week). There was probably a way around it, but of course I couldn't search online how to do it :p

I'll probably be doing the crack thing myself (I have constant internet I just don't like BS anti-piracy crap and thwart it out of principle), but I will be waiting a week or two to find out how bad of job they did before I even purchase it...and yeah if my copy gets bricked because of their stupidity I'm going to be downloading another one.

@topic,

All in all this is one of the worst anti-piracy ideas ever. All this does is get the warez groups excited for a new challenge. The very fact that people want to pirate the game to piss in EA's cheerios means all the warez groups are going to be lined up and salivating to crack this thing ASAP.

It boggles my mind how GD clueless they are. This is not a software or methodology battle they are fighting, they will always lose that battle. All they can do with software is provide a minor deterence, their real battle is hearts and minds and convincing people its wrong....and as long as they keep doing stuff like this they might as well just pack it in.

Its easy to bitch about piracy but nobody expects that to change on its own, EA needs to approach this intelligently and quite honestly what their doing now is akin to pulling out a sledge hammer to make the square peg fit through the round hole. And so long as they use this strategy I have zero sympathy, particularly since it inconveniences legitimate customers like myself (referring to the past of securom on this one).