Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.

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CLOUDBOND007	Mass Effect takes anti-piracy to a new level.	Lead	[-]
Posts: 10693 (05/06/08 10:14 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None 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? CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
MaskedSheik		#1	[-]
Posts: 493 (05/06/08 10:25 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No.
Crawl and 1OOO		#2	[-]
Posts: 11758 (05/06/08 10:31 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Has anyone ever had anything with that DRM crap? I think we only have one thing with it: A 2 disc version of Terminator 2. The normal DVD has the special edition. Well, no one wants that. The other DVD is a computer disc that has the original version, in high resolution, but it's DRM protected. What that means is that you need to connect to their server to get the rights to play the movie. The rights remain active for 5 days or something. So, if you want to watch it on a laptop, hope you remembered to get the rights before you left home. And, yeah, the first time I tried watching it, the site that gave out the rights was down. I'm tempted to get an earlier release of the movie, with the original version on a normal DVD, to get around that crap. If things like this are the way of the future, fuck, I don't know. I'm just glad that at least there's a lot of legacy media that once you bought it, you owned it.
abaxa		#3	[-]
Posts: 36 (05/06/08 11:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Now that I've read about it I'm just waiting till hackers figure out how to break the DRM on that game so I can get a good laugh. ------------------ "Nevertheless, a rule is a rule. We can't go about making exceptions to these rules just because they're stupid. We can't even use a case-by-case basis to see if the intent of the (stupid) rule doesn't apply to this particular book. No, no, a thousand times no! We must have iron-clad, meaningless rules, and we must follow them to the letter!!! Otherwise, anarchy will result." --Dadof3, Snopes messageboard --Well of course anarchy will result! Duh, that's what the dancing chickens are for. My YouTube page.
Kitsunexus		#4	[-]
Posts: 106 (05/08/08 2:50 AM) Banned User Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	But Mass Effect also takes shit American-designed modern graphics>gameplay gaming to a new level of shittiness, so who cares?
CLOUDBOND007		#5	[-]
Posts: 10693 (05/08/08 3:01 AM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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 step down from having a turn based system. And they might as well not have had ally characters fight with you since they stand around being useless most of the time. While Mass Effect has an unrelated storyline, I think of it as a spiritual sequel to KOTOR. And a much better one than the lousy Sith Lords, which was developed by a different group of idiots. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS Last Edited By: CLOUDBOND007 05/08/08 3:03 AM. Edited 1 times.
Captain Ladd Spencer		#6	[-]
Posts: 1611 (05/08/08 8:35 AM) Behold the many uses of my amazing BIONIC ARM! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
Kitsunexus		#7	[-]
Posts: 106 (05/08/08 5:08 PM) Banned User Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
Captain Ladd Spencer		#8	[-]
Posts: 1611 (05/09/08 10:09 AM) Behold the many uses of my amazing BIONIC ARM! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Didn't think this was funny, just relevent:
CLOUDBOND007		#9	[-]
Posts: 10693 (05/09/08 10:12 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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-authentication." CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
TWEETER911		#10	[-]
Posts: 4905 (05/10/08 3:39 AM) Phantom King Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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". "I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times."
TaroSH		#11	[-]
Posts: 2383 (05/21/08 10:48 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
Brigade Delbrack		#12	[-]
Posts: 725 (05/22/08 12:43 PM) Electric Boogaloo Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
TaroSH		#13	[-]
Posts: 2383 (05/22/08 1:29 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
da dick		#14	[-]
Posts: 1910 (05/22/08 8:36 PM) and my bird can sing too! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	sounds a lot like the crappy steam service.
CLOUDBOND007		#15	[-]
Posts: 10693 (05/22/08 8:40 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
da dick		#16	[-]
Posts: 1910 (05/25/08 7:46 PM) and my bird can sing too! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
CLOUDBOND007		#17	[-]
Posts: 10693 (05/25/08 11:52 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
da dick		#18	[-]
Posts: 1910 (05/26/08 7:57 PM) and my bird can sing too! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	if record companies can insert supposedly legal rootkits in your music CDs, i imagine a more technically suave company like steam could do worse.
TaroSH		#19	[-]
Posts: 2383 (05/26/08 9:09 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm not sure how you get worse than a rootkit.
da dick		#20	[-]
Posts: 1910 (06/08/08 9:31 PM) and my bird can sing too! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.