Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:34:39 GMT

hooray for the pirates(who may also be russian gangsters who sell DoS attack packages)?
evil is everywhere.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (TaroSH) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:49:00 GMT

[Something I already mentioned is an earlier post pertaining to the PC Bioshock]

I read the PC Mass Effect sales were nailed by this, and I noticed the store shelves are glutted with them. It's hilarious; they do this to limit piracy, and end up turning away the people who wanted to legitamitely buy it.

And I heard the game's DRM was cracked the next day anyway.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:16:39 GMT

If you get Mass Effect PC, you'd better not ever uninstall it.

Every time you uninstall and reinstall, it counts as one of your three activations. Thus, you can't remove the game when you aren't using it to free up hard drive space, you can't sell it, you can't lend it, etc., etc.

Also, you...

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:17:21 GMT

And it's still a rootkit.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:31:00 GMT

a super stealth rootkit which make your PC, anti-virus and anti-spyware think it's a part of the motherboard. and it self-mutates. a constantly self-evolving program. and once it infects 6 billion or so PCs and servers, it turns sentient with its combined slaved computing power, and tries to take over the world, then build the matrix. but that's still science fiction.

anyways, i read some people already figured out how to remove all those rootkits and block them.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (TaroSH) — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:09:13 GMT

I'm not sure how you get worse than a rootkit.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:57:36 GMT

if record companies can insert supposedly legal rootkits in your music CDs, i imagine a more technically suave company like steam could do worse.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:52:06 GMT

You can only buy official retail games and content with it so I don't know how you'd ever get a virus or anything else unless it was part of a PC game. And in that case, it probably wouldn't matter whether it came through Steam or you bought it in the store.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:46:25 GMT

read a lot about steam spreading viruses, rootkits, malware, DRM evil, and other evil things. someday it'd steal your jeans and splice them with kid nexus.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:40:55 GMT

I haven't had a problem with Steam. I'm pretty sure that you're allowed to play the games without an active internet connection. Maybe it's spying on me or something and that's what you mean, but I haven't heard that before either.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:36:15 GMT

sounds a lot like the crappy steam service.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (TaroSH) — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:29:33 GMT

I did some more research after I posted that, and I think that rumor started BECAUSE they knew what a rootkit was, or at least the signs of one. The version of SecuROM included in it had red flags of a rootkit, plus Sony makes SecuROM and they were the ones who put rootkits on their music CDs a while back, but Bioshock didn't actually contain one.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (Brigade Delbrack) — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:43:54 GMT

It doesn't install a rootkit. That was just rumor that got spread early on by people who don't know what a rootkit is or does.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (TaroSH) — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:48:49 GMT

I've been nosing around the Amazon forums, and apparently the PC version of Bioshock used some anti-piracy tactic that pissed everyone off. It installs SecuROM (and some say a rootkit as well), a folder (folders?) that can't be removed by any means, and the game itself can only be installed a certain number of times.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:39:34 GMT

Kitsunexus wrote:
But Mass Effect also takes shit American-designed modern graphics>gameplay gaming to a new level of shittiness, so who cares?

C'mon. You know that's not the kind of material that will win the "Wapanese Teenage Greaseball of the Year Award".

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:12:48 GMT

Whether the original report was incorrect of they changed the plan, it's going to be only a one time activation for Mass Effect, not every 10 days.

Today, in a separate post, community manager Jay Watamaniuk stated, "There has been a lot of discussion in the past few days on how the security requirements for Mass Effect for PC will work. BioWare, a division of EA, wants to let fans know that Mass Effect will not require 10- day periodic...

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:09:29 GMT

Didn't think this was funny, just relevent:

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (Kitsunexus) — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:08:31 GMT

Captain Ladd Spencer wrote:
According to the Escapist forums (which I don't post in, just noticed the topic advertised with one of the Yahtzee reviews), Spore is also going to use this.

I think I speak for the gaming world, when I say FUCK.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:35:25 GMT

According to the Escapist forums (which I don't post in, just noticed the topic advertised with one of the Yahtzee reviews), Spore is also going to use this.

Re: Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01:09 GMT

I liked it. The gameplay needed a little work but it seemed more like it was rushed to completion than flat out bad game design. On the positive side were the excellent voice acting and enjoyable overall storyline. Mass Effect also has the best implementation of branching conversations that I've seen in this type of game, where you can choose a response for Shepard and at the same time not know what line he's going to deliver.

I didn't think combat was bad, but it was a...

Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:14:52 GMT

The PC version of the game will connect to an authentication site every 5 to 10 days to confirm that your CD key and computer info hasn't changed.

If your net connection is down or their system is down when one of the checks is due, you will not be able to play the game that you supposedly own until it's back up.

Does anyone think this is a good idea?