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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53582

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 r

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Koogle · Elite Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 1362

what a bunch of tools Rolling Eyes

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 · Contributing Member Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 53

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 · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

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 · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 161

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?