Sorry, it ain’t gonna stop the hackers…
“All it’s taken is one little post and a landslide of others follow. At least that’s what’s happened when Bioware’s Derek French reveals that Mass Effect and Spore will
be coming with a fairly hefty piece of DRM attached. It won’t just
activate online when you first install the game - it’ll also have to
check in to the server regularly to continue working. If ten days go by
without a check-in working, the game stops working. In other word,
major lengthy internet outage, no playage. Since RPS-comrade Rossignol
is going to be having that kinda length of time offline shortly, this
has to be frowned at.
Beneath the cut: Derek French’s Full post, just so the actual words
people will be arguing about are present in the vicinity if this
spirals out of control into another 300+ post thread about the P-word. Oh - and a few more initial thoughts too.”
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