EA's anti piracy screwing up PC Mass Effect.

[shio]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

shio said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

ihira said:
you can play your steam games without internet connection through 'offline mode'
for ME, you'll need internet connection every 10 days even though its an offline game.

Sure, activating is quick and easy and its not a big deal if you have 24/7 internet but it sounds annoying having to veryfy every 10 days. What I don't like is how the customers that bought their game legitly have to be trated like a suspect of pirate. Oh and it WILL get pirated sooner or later. People on this thread are already planning to crack it so they can bypass the 10day authentication. ha!

This different methodogy from ME but remember Bioshock PC had a load of verification problems? Like people that bought the game couldn't install it and the 2K servers were down etc...complaints after complaints. I wonder if it had any effects on sales?
They need to stop this kind of rediculous methods to secure their game.

Seriously, release it on Steam or something instead of this BS.

Someone in this post said that if your authentication messes up 3 times, then the game thinks it's pirated and you can never play it again, and will be forced to buy a new copy.

 

If that's true, then that is my only concern.

"If my PC blows up", "If lightning strikes my house", etc...

I doubt the authentication process would fail like that, or else EA wouldn't be risking so much on it.

I have hughesnet satellite internet. The signal is often intermittent and I have trouble authenticating often with WoW and Nintendo Wifi/XBL.

In fact, I can't even run the messenger in XBL it never works.

I guarntee you out of 20 attempts, my internet would fail 3 times. So, basically I'd be renting the game for an undisclosed amount of time, for 50 or 60 bucks. So would anyone unlucky enough to have hughesnet.

Assuming your damage control is any indication, then the fact that it can brick your software permanently is true, and I believe that no one should buy this game on sheer princible.

 

 

Also, you said I didn't back up my statements with facts. I didn't make any statements. I'm apparently ignorant, because I threatened your blindly held beliefs. I simply quoted statements from huge developers who happen to write blogs titled:

They wonder why people don't make PC games any more.

 

I'm sick of being the victim of everyones insecurities in this post. Just don't respond to me anymore, you'll be doing me a favor.

 Even if the authentication process fails, you only need to keep trying until it succeeds. Mass Effect can activated up to 3 different machines, and when it's activated, it will still activated until the authentication goes null. You only need to successfully authenticate the game once every 10 days, you don't lose anything in either the activation or the authentication processes if it fails.

And again, that article you shown was based about guy who doesn't even know the sales of COD4 PC, and NPD's numbers of the decreasing PC boxed retail market. It completely ignores the fact that online revenue is booming and that European and Asian (which have bigger PC markets) are increasing every year.