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Grand Theft Auto 4 PC Uses SecuROM DRM - briefly
(hx) 08:36 PM CET - Nov,28 2008 - Post a comment / read (7)
Today Rockstar Games released quite a hefty FAQ on the installation process of the PC version of GTA IV. As part of an anti-piracy strategy, the publisher has implemented a strong form of Digital Rights Management, DRM for short, that requires you to activate your copy of the game once through the internet. - Activation via Internet (1x per system, no limits, Fallback for systems without web access)
- Copy protection Securom: The original disc is required for playing (Execpt: Download version of GTA 4, for example from Direct 2 Drive)
- Requirements for playing (singleplayer): Games for Windows Live account for saving/achievements (1x free creation), original disc, Securom runs in the background
- Requirements for playing (multiplayer): Active internet connection, Games for Windows Live account, For uploading videos: Rockstar Social Club Account.
- If you don't have web access or don't want to connect your gaming PC to the Internet, Rockstar wants to offer a not yet specified system to activate GTA 4 via another PC with web access. Details are supposed to be available on launch.
- For the normal GTA 4 (PC) version with disc installation, activations are unlimited. But the original disc is required for playing.
- This does not apply for legally downloaded versions of GTA 4: Depending on the vendor the following is possible: Five parallel installations with the possibility to revive a "free” installation, if an old installation is deleted. For this purpose the customer has to have web access with the PC GTA 4 is installed on.
- Those playing GTA 4 with an illegally hacked version have, according to Rockstar, to fear that the game will not be fully playable.
- If you change two major components of your PC (like the graphics card or the CPU), you will possible have to reactivate GTA 4.

last 10 comments:

Ozieo	(09:06 PM CET - Nov,28 2008 )
That's 1 copy less sold.

Koogle	(09:08 PM CET - Nov,28 2008 )
WOW ..check out all those great new features.. NOT

nb411	(11:21 PM CET - Nov,28 2008 )
Ozieo> That's 1 copy less sold. Oh boo hoo.

NyaR	(01:56 AM CET - Nov,29 2008 )
Ozieo> That's 1 copy less sold. and 2 copies more pirated..

lorcro2000	(01:25 PM CET - Nov,29 2008 )
Cracking this thing just became that much more urgent... they have got to stop with this consumer hostile BS.

Stumpus

(03:18 PM CET - Nov,29 2008 )

I own a PC to get away from the bull$hit that is M$ and it's XBox 'requirements', now we have the exclusive bull again applied to the PC by way of LIVE I'm sick of his monopoly on just about everything gaming! I buy Fallout3 and again it has LIVE, but wait, you want exlusive DLC you must have LIVE installed. WTF!! The PC is turning into a friggin' XBOX!!!!!
One time the PC was truly exclusive, now it is just second rate.

DLC? You can stuff it and the companies that suck Gate's arse. They quckly forget that it was the PC that put them where they are and not ANY console. :evil:

n!Cola	(04:12 PM CET - Nov,29 2008 )
I think steam version is free from all DRM bs ...

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