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Posted December 25, 2010
Guys, I wanna buy Mass Effect, but am curious about the DRM EA uses on their store. Any info about it?
Posted December 25, 2010
Well Mass Effect has the SecuROM 5 concurrent installs DRM. The EA store itself I believe has no DRM of its own. The only thing I got from the EA store was Mass Effect's Pinnacle Station DLC, which I can run the installer of without having the EA store running.
Posted December 25, 2010
I'm pretty sure all of it is Securom.
Posted December 25, 2010
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StingingVelvet: Well Mass Effect has the SecuROM 5 concurrent installs DRM. The EA store itself I believe has no DRM of its own. The only thing I got from the EA store was Mass Effect's Pinnacle Station DLC, which I can run the installer of without having the EA store running.
It's the same DRM as seen in Burnout Paradise, Mirror's Edge and pretty much every other EA PC game released after Spore and before Dragon Age Origins.
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: It's the same DRM as seen in Burnout Paradise, Mirror's Edge and pretty much every other EA PC game released after Spore and before Dragon Age Origins.
And ME2 doesn't have any DRM?
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: It's the same DRM as seen in Burnout Paradise, Mirror's Edge and pretty much every other EA PC game released after Spore and before Dragon Age Origins.
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KavazovAngel: And ME2 doesn't have any DRM?
Mass Effect 2 has the disc check Dragon Age Origins had and the online registering to get access the bonus DLC. Or, at least the retail versions does. Not sure about the EA Store version.

[Edit] Bah.
If you purchased the digital version on PC, you will be able to install the game 5 times.
Source. Presumably that's a reference to the EA Store version. But still: bah. Go retail!
Post edited December 25, 2010 by DelusionsBeta
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: [Edit] Bah.
If you purchased the digital version on PC, you will be able to install the game 5 times.
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DelusionsBeta: Source. Presumably that's a reference to the EA Store version. But still: bah. Go retail!
It tends to piss me off when stores have that sort of requirement. At least they tell you ahead of time, although, I suspect that it's not particularly prominent.

As far as I'm concerned, it's fraud to claim to be selling you something then to limit the number of times you can reinstall. Doesn't matter if 98% of the people don't bump into the limit.
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: Presumably that's a reference to the EA Store version. But still: bah. Go retail!
That's probably 5 times without revoking an activation. But most EA games now attempt to revoke activations during uninstallation so it shouldn't be a huge problem unless you're prone to screwing up your PC before uninstalling games...
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: Presumably that's a reference to the EA Store version. But still: bah. Go retail!
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bansama: That's probably 5 times without revoking an activation. But most EA games now attempt to revoke activations during uninstallation so it shouldn't be a huge problem unless you're prone to screwing up your PC before uninstalling games...
Even then, there's always the Deauthorization Manager.
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: Presumably that's a reference to the EA Store version. But still: bah. Go retail!
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bansama: That's probably 5 times without revoking an activation. But most EA games now attempt to revoke activations during uninstallation so it shouldn't be a huge problem unless you're prone to screwing up your PC before uninstalling games...
Which is mind blowingly incompetent. It's not just screwing up your PC, it's not wanting to uninstall all the software on the computer prior to reinstalling the OS.

Granted there is apparently a deauthorization manager, but it's still mind blowingly incompetent of them to behave like that. It seriously makes me question why I should give them money if they treat their paying customers like criminals.

Which is a shame, given that they do put out a lot of games that I'd love to play.
Posted December 25, 2010
Meh! :) Thanks for all the replies. :D

I guess if I buy it, I'll have to use a cracked exe.
Posted December 25, 2010
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bansama: That's probably 5 times without revoking an activation. But most EA games now attempt to revoke activations during uninstallation so it shouldn't be a huge problem unless you're prone to screwing up your PC before uninstalling games...
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DelusionsBeta: Even then, there's always the Deauthorization Manager.
They launched without one of these and a two install limit for Bioshock, just saying.
Posted December 25, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: Even then, there's always the Deauthorization Manager.
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orcishgamer: They launched without one of these and a two install limit for Bioshock, just saying.
2k is not EA, as much as they would like to be.
Posted December 25, 2010
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orcishgamer: They launched without one of these and a two install limit for Bioshock, just saying.
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DelusionsBeta: 2k is not EA, as much as they would like to be.
Geez, you're right, for some reason I had it in my head that EA published Bioshock and not Take Two, sorry, my bad.
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