You lose an install if you unplug your mouse!

Ouch hadnt heard bout the rootkit. It truly has become the next starforce.... I wonder if it gives its self comand ring 1? Wish they would learn DRM is worthless. All it has truly done has increased pirating. For the most part pirates crack this stuff in a few days to weeks. Then the avrage joe hears bout all these probs and F*** this all get the pirate verson.

Might pick it up after a patch or two. I've become pretty hesitant in the later years about picking up games right out of the gate. As they usually come with a patch days after release.

Someone is gonna crack it, sooner o later, so why bother putting so many protections? Make a good game, with a nice box, good bundle and sell it at a good price, people will buy it.

Actually, it has securom but not a rootkit -- unless you define securom as a rootkit. The guy who said it had one in his blog (originally) has already retracted his statement.

guess i WONT be able to bum it off someone...

You can easily bum it off your friend. The game allows up to five different installs currently and you can expand that by authenticating old installs.


How many times do you guys install a game? I personally install a game at most 3 times and that's over a period of years.


The game is incredible. Seriously... just get it. Securerom is NOTHING like starforce. Starforce modified drivers and in some cases edited the system kernel... which is why it caused so many problems. Securerom on the other hand will at most install a system service. But will only do that if you have multiple accounts on the computer some of which aren't administrator level accounts. Basically the purpose of the service is to elevate securerom to administrator level even though you're not logged in on an administrator account. It has no rootkit or anything else that's really toxic.


The game design, story, gameplay, and graphics are worth your 43 dollars.

Often. Some games, like X-Com, I'm installed probably 50+ times!

Others, like Diablo II probably only 10+.

why?

Because they're good games that I enjoy playing from time to time?

Don't forget, HD's large enough to just install a half dozen games that you tend to go back to from time to time only just came out recently -- and even then, a lot of people (myself included) like to wipe the OS from time to time, deleting everything on the HD. (Helps keep windows running smoothly, drivers and programs just tend to build up and weigh it down, even if you uninstall them they leave junk behind).

well, you can just unauthorize your old installs. So it seems like a moot point regardless. They're letting you have 5 active copies of your game at once. That's pretty good considering you only have one disk that will be required when you want to actually play.


I'm not defending this kind of copy protection. it seems excessive to me as well. I just don't see how it will actually effect me.

Well, they are planning on removing the limit "eventually" -- I think its more of a short term "don't pirate it while its hot" kinda thing. Hopefully, they'll remove Securom too, like Doom3 / Quake IV did.

meh... if it really bothers you can download the nocd crack that will come out eventually.


There's nothing wrong with using those so long as you actually bought the game. I've used them in the past to deal with damaged discs and such...

Or just get the D2D version



Yeah, but how do you reinstall them then?

By the time that's a problem for you they'll have disabled that part of the copy protection.

And even if they didn't, you can just unauthenticate old installs. It's really not that complicated.