Grargar: Is it
this one? If so, then that's stupidly cheap.
Hey there Grargar,
First of all, my most abject apologies for keeping you waiting for over half a year for my little confirmation. It kept slipping my mind, then my 3 TB hard drive died on me,... Furthermore, I'll be moving to China next week, so I made it one of my last official duties to check my retail copy of Hard Reset for DRM. I only got around to unwrapping the Hard Reset DVD earlier today.
Anyway, here's how it works:
- Unplug your internet.
- Install Hard Reset
- Upon launching the game, the Kalypso launcher will make a sad face "Y U NO haz interwebz?!"
- Laugh in that fucker's face while you type in the CD-key from the back of your manual
- Start the game
Now for the best part: The next time you launch the game, you won't even have to have the DVD in your drive.
Now for the worst part: The Kalypso launcher will check for an internet connection at each start of the game! You'll have to unplug your internet each time before you start the game.
In summary, it hardly is DRM-free, but at least you do get an option to play it on a machine that has no internet connection whatsoever. Whether or not the game is worth the GBP0.90 asking price on amazon is now up for you to decide. ;)