Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Online Validation Every Ten Days to Function

Nick Breckon

May 6, 2008 1:28 PM

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TheFatMom

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May 6, 2008 1:30 PM

the sad part is the "warez" version will bypass this
- Vincent Grayson
  
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  May 6, 2008 1:38 PM
  
  And will, in all likelyhood, be available the day the game comes out, if not earlier.
  
  When will they stop fucking the legitimate customers over, and realize that these methods fail to deter pirates?
  - SovietOrchestra
    
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    May 6, 2008 1:43 PM
    
    If they start executing parts of the game logic online I want to see pirates start reimplementing parts of the game code. Yeah that would be interesting.
    - zehh
      
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      May 6, 2008 2:02 PM
      
      Like World Of Warcraft servers?
      
      They trace out what the server does according to input and simply create code to replicate the functionality.
- vertdang
  
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  May 6, 2008 1:39 PM
  
  Very true.
  Copy protection like this only really ever impedes legitimate users.
- Ride-My-Rocket
  
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  May 6, 2008 1:41 PM
  
  Yep. Pretty ridiculous, and could very well be a deal-breaker for me with Spore.
- Darkslayne
  
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  May 6, 2008 1:54 PM
  
  Oddly enough, I've started downloading cracks for my purchased games. I do this to avoid placing cds in my tray or for future issues like this about having to be online.
  
  I bought the game, I shouldn't have to worry about how to play it. To be far, I have downloaded games and cracks to play, but many of them I found so bad I wouldn't play more then 6 or 7 hours before removing it, so I was damn glad to have not purchased it.