Here's what EAs DRM is doing, they don't just verify the number of PCs you work on slash use, nope .. they dare to monitor hardware changes now, which I am sure is a privacy breach on many levels. So once we insert new hardware (CPU / mobo or graphics cards) the hardware id # hash changes and if that happens a couple of times they are rendering your activation invalid.
What a bunch of rubbish ....
If this is the future for EA titles then you guys can forget about VGA performance reviews as EA is rendering that pretty much impossible now. I've now been waiting for like 3 or 4 hours and we are still locked out of the game. The only way to solve this would be purchasing another key and setup a secondary account. This means that if we'd like to make a VGA performance review on Battelfield Hardline with a card or 20 we'd need to purchase the game three times.
nin wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 11:25:sauron wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 11:19:
I stopped buying from EA and Ubisoft years ago, for several reasons:
1. Restrictive DRM.
2. They market a game and then make you pay for 'DLC' which should have been part of the base package.
3. Above all, I don't see any title from either company which really makes me sit up and take notice.
Summary: Technically restrictive DRM, poor value for money, and lots of derivative sequels with no real evidence of innovation. No thanks.
EA: So bad, even The Dark Lord Sauron himself says "no".(tm)
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Tumbler wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 13:38:Man you're stupid if you believe this, MMO's/F2P are online drm'd games. They are taking those big wins (see diablo 3) and further invading. Same goes for steam.
DRM has been invasive for a long time now, almost all AAA games come with steam drm.
...confirmed, someone is stupid. Hardware DRM schemes haven't been common for a while, it's a surprise that origin has these limits in place. I wonder why it took this long for someone to notice. I doubt it's only for this game.
I suppose steam does technically do this but their response isn't to lock you out, they just sent an email to your account to verify you are the account owner.
Flak wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 16:57:Dacron wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 16:55:
Great customer service in the fact they're friendly and will bullshit about the game, but they're useless.
Personally I couldn't care less if customer service insults my mother as long as they can provide effective results. What's the point in 'nice' customer service reps if they're useless imbeciles that are pasted to a corporate EA-approved script?
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Dacron wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 16:55:
Great customer service in the fact they're friendly and will bullshit about the game, but they're useless.
Gib007 wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 16:36:
Doesn't this just PUSH people to pirate their games? It's pretty obvious. It's so easy to do these days as well. They're playing with fire.
jdreyer wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 16:44:
EA supposedly has good customer service, but I doubt it's a 3 minute phone call.
descender wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 16:38:
This is pretty common licensing practice in the corporate world. usually you have to even generate the hash yourself, submit it to the company and then they generate a key for you based on it.
He could have just contacted EA and asked them to remove these limitations for them to do reviews (literally a 3 minute phone call), but he decided to cry about it on the internet instead.
This DRM is stupid, don't get me wrong... but it's not out of the ordinary in any way.
DangerDog wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 15:03:
So no, EA isn't scanning your hard drive looking at what kind of porn you're into.
Verno wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 14:47:XP-Cagey wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 14:14:
The extra layer of DRM is stupid, but this is an attempt at allowing offline play after "always on" bit them in the ass for games like SimCity.
Offline play of what exactly? The single player campaign? I mean seriously, this is a lot of effort to protect the terrible singleplayer in Battlefield games. I don't have any problem understanding what EAs perspective is here, it just seems really dumb is all.
Once you've tied the product into your online service and a whole separate authentication layer you don't really need to do silly stuff like this for what is largely a MP experience.
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XP-Cagey wrote on Mar 25, 2015, 14:14:
The extra layer of DRM is stupid, but this is an attempt at allowing offline play after "always on" bit them in the ass for games like SimCity.