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Spore, Mass Effect DRM Phone Home For Single-Player Gaming
Tridus writes "The PC version of Mass Effect is going to require Internet access to play (despite being a single-player game), as its DRM system requires that it phone home every 10 days. Sadly, Spore will use the same system. This will do nothing to stop piracy of course, but it will do a heck of a good job of stopping EA's new arch-enemy: people playing their single player games offline." Is this better or worse than requiring a CD in the drive to play? Update: 05/07 17:17 GMT by T : According to a message from Technical Producer Derek French (may require a scroll-down) on the Bioware forums, there is indeed an internet connection required, but only for activation, not for all future play. Update: 05/08 04:10 GMT by T : Mea culpa. As reader David Houk points out, the 10-day window is in fact correct as initially described, so don't count on playing this on any machine without at least some Internet connectivity.
Because so many people do not respect the rights of others, specifically the copy rights of others.
Copyright is a legal right granted by the government. Making an unauthorized copy is a violation of the copyright holders rights.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Their worry is people like you violating their rights.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
You'll not have internet access for 10 days? Sorry I live in a first world country with pretty strong competition in the internet market, I didn't realise it there were still countries with government enforced monopolies that destroy competition and provide crappy service... are you in Soviet Russia ;)
My last experience was moved in, plugged in, phoned up.... "it will be 24 hours before you are connected".... hung up... looked at flashing lights on the box... connected.... got shouted at for not helping unpack.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Just FYI, "gnutoo" is a sockpuppet account of twitter. He's posted on this article with three accounts already.
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Your post is so full of fail it almost made my screen explode!
Well "dickhead", let's see. Why don't you log in, I'll create four more accounts and then we can have a discussion where I agree with myself and you take a karma hit because the moderators fell for my shilling. Game? Let me know.
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People use cars to drive faster than the speed limit on roads. Does that mean we need to ban cars or roads? Have fun walking to work.
Oh, that's right - you don't work, you just sit in your parents' basement all day drinking mountain dew and jerking off to badly photoshopped Seven of Nine porn.
Playing games on a LAN, and setting up a ladder system that will equitably work for months of play? Two entirely different things. We enjoyed having a ladder system, thanks.