Spore & Mass Effect will require Periodic Online Validation
Submitted by: KnightMare @ 06:14 PM | Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | (url: http://www.shackn...)
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.
If customers do not come online after ten days, the game will cease to function. "After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run"
Category: PC Gaming | 21 Comments
Tags: drm lol mass.effect spore
- Comments (21)
This is pretty lame, really. The gaming industry is going through the same pains that the music industry is. The majority of the products they're putting out are complete fucking garbage, and instead of realizing this and improving the quality of their products to attract more customers, they're going with draconian copy protection methods to drive more of them away.
Why is it that the overpaid, college degree holding jerkoffs at these companies can't figure out simple shit like this?
Why is it that the overpaid, college degree holding jerkoffs at these companies can't figure out simple shit like this?
So, what happens when the developers decide to cut costs and remove the validation servers for the game, the game becomes useless...
no, by the time that happens they'll be able to point in 15 directions at cracks so you dont have to validate it :lol:
haha best comment everOriginally posted by OdioI was going to pay full price for spore, but if they fag it up with copyright shit, I'm going to steal it.
haha more winOriginally posted by PotatoBoatCaptainFuck that.
Personally, if I want a game, I'll buy it- unless the publishers do faggoty things like this, in which case I will go out of my way to steal it; case in point, Half-Life 2, Sins of a Solar Empire and, apparently, Spore.