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 Gameguru Mania News - May,06 2008 -  
Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Online Validation - briefly
(hx) 11:00 PM CEST - May,06 2008 - Post a comment / read (4)
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. According to French, Maxis' Spore will also make use of the same scheme: "[Electronic Arts] is ready for us and getting ready for Spore, which will use the same system."  French also noted that the online requirement will be clearly labeled on the games' packaging.
Mass Effect uses SecuROM and requires an online activation for the first time that you play it. Each copy of Mass Effect comes with a CD Key which is used for this activation and for registration here at the BioWare Community. Mass Effect does not require the DVD to be in the drive in order to play, it is only for installation. After the first activation, SecuROM requires that it re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez'd and gets banned). Just so that the 10 day thing doesn't become abrupt, SecuROM tries its first re-check with 5 days remaining in the 10 day window. If it can't contact the server before the 10 days are up, nothing bad happens and the game still runs. After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run.
Well, I guess I won't be buying Mass Effect and Spore then.
last 10 comments:
Koogle(12:46 AM CEST - May,07 2008 )
what a bunch of tools :roll:

I can just see the actual sales soaring high with this mind blowing genious idea.. which sounds almost as shit as having to start up the steaming pile of shit platform (aka STEAM) in order to play a game.

TENGILL(02:27 AM CEST - May,07 2008 )
So i guess the pirate community will make a patch that removes this or makes it think its done.
There will prob be a way to trick the game to think its validated.
A diffrent way would be to wait untill you get a error msg saying that the game cant validate and apply a reg key so it think it has bean validated.
There is probebly a bunch of ways to fix this.
Not evry one has internet connection, so now thay cant play games?

For me this is not a problem as im not going to get Mass Effect and im going to pay for SPOR.
But all you pirates aout there dont worry, thay will crack this... thay always do.
And this time its going to be a race, what gruop will be the first.
Fame and glory, big motivation of mankind.

El_Coyote(03:55 PM CEST - May,07 2008 )
the validation doesnt really bug me a whole lot.
If just they'd get rid of bloody securom and other invasive protection scemes they can validate how often they like for me.

amra(12:01 AM CEST - May,08 2008 )
Of course software has always weak points, so somebody will make the effort to crack this, like hl2 with steam was cracked.
But there is no simple answer to this problem. A legal gamer will hate all this senseless copy protection maleware, a pirate doesn't, the industrie have to learn that. They should work more on bugfree games than making players sad with all these nag screens.
Does anybody know how cheap a game is, if there is no expensive copy protection on the disc?

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