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On Mass Effect 3 DRM

[Feb 17, 2012, 9:32 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

BioWare's Casey Hudson offers reassurances to gamers by way of Computer and Video Games that the use of Origin does not mean Mass Effect 3 will be burdened by intrusive DRM. They say the game will use a one time online activation, and will allow an unlimited number of installs. Here's more from Hudson:

We use Origin, and it's interesting because really, it's just a way to get access to the online and digital features that, you know, generally, PC games have now. I think people are going to be fine with it.

"I think that the people who try Mass Effect 3 on Origin will realise that it's not an intrusive DRM scheme," he added. "It's just a way for you to sign up for the online services that you're going to get on an ongoing basis through Mass Effect 3.

"Just like you get with any other kind of online digital distribution, or multiplayer or whatever. It's not something that requires you to always be online - you can play Mass Effect 3 offline."

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Re: On Mass Effect 3 DRM

Feb 17, 2012, 22:23

eRe4s3r

Most people here probably can't even remember what a shit that was with steam and all. Not only did valve kill of WON and with that HL:DM entirely for a while but Steam at the beginning was absolutely hilariously unstable, messages crashing you out of the game, downloads being stalled mid-download with no way to resume, and a patch system that was out of sync with the server patches meaning we had version 1.X but servers had version 1.Y and content providers outside a certain range never even got to 1.Y and instead some had version 1.W - and the first server browser displayed wrong ping or no ping at all, had join success rates of about 10% and didn't support filtering out password protected servers. Yeah -> http://www.no-won.net/ just to refresh memories ;p When i see people complaining about Origin.. may i remind people that Origin is still in beta and STILL in its first year of existence? In that time frame steam couldn't even manage starting games properly. To me, that makes it already superior. So far, i had nill bad experiences with Origin. But when i transfered to Steam because Valve shut down WON i had half a dozen. By the way, about starting games, to this day steam hasn't made starting games 100% fail-safe either. So yeah.. people bitching about Origin sucking.. forgot how much Steam sucked. Not to mention we had the same lame ass topics here when steam started to gain traction as DRM And valve forever sucks in my books for shutting down WON.Net and handling the cs1.5 to cs1.6 transition (and later CSS) the way they did. The only CS i want to play is 0.9 where weapons still persisted between rounds. THAT was awesome in LAN matches, suddenly where you died mattered for the next round. Not to mention you could horde the weapons in your spawn zone by picking them up and dropping them again ;p This comment was edited on Feb 17, 2012, 22:33.

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Comment [quote="eRe4s3r"Feb 17, 2012, 22:23]Most people here probably can't even remember what a shit that was with steam and all. Not only did valve kill of WON and with that HL:DM entirely for a while but Steam at the beginning was absolutely hilariously unstable, messages crashing you out of the game, downloads being stalled mid-download with no way to resume, and a patch system that was out of sync with the server patches meaning we had version 1.X but servers had version 1.Y and content providers outside a certain range never even got to 1.Y and instead some had version 1.W - and the first server browser displayed wrong ping or no ping at all, had join success rates of about 10% and didn't support filtering out password protected servers. Yeah -> http://www.no-won.net/ just to refresh memories ;p When i see people complaining about Origin.. may i remind people that Origin is still in beta and STILL in its first year of existence? In that time frame steam couldn't even manage b[starting ]b games properly. To me, that makes it already superior. So far, i had nill bad experiences with Origin. But when i transfered to Steam because Valve shut down WON i had half a dozen. By the way, about starting games, to this day steam hasn't made starting games 100% fail-safe either. So yeah.. people bitching about Origin sucking.. forgot how much Steam sucked. Not to mention we had the same lame ass topics here when steam started to gain traction as DRM ;) And valve forever sucks in my books for shutting down WON.Net and handling the cs1.5 to cs1.6 transition (and later CSS) the way they did. The only CS i want to play is 0.9 where weapons still persisted between rounds. THAT was awesome in LAN matches, suddenly where you died mattered for the next round. Not to mention you could horde the weapons in your spawn zone by picking them up and dropping them again ;p [/quote]

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