Crysis Warhead In Stores - Limited Installs & Online Authentication [Sep 18, 2008, 08:54 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
As announced Tuesday (story), Crysis Warhead should be
hitting store shelves today, and as announced yesterday (story),
Crytek's first-person shooter sequel is also now available via
Steam. On a related note,
GameXtract has a screenshot of the EULA
that indicates Crysis Warhead allows a limited number of installations, a
controversial feature of other recent EA releases (thanks
N4G.com). Confirmation of
this can be found in an article on
the game on PCGH offering hardware benchmarks and other details about the
game. Among those details is a confirmation of this DRM feature, saying the game
can be activated up to three times. The EULA in the screenshot on GameXtract
actually says "The first end user of this License can install and authenticate
CRYSIS WARHEAD on a set number of machines." The implication there seems to be
this license is non-transferrable. That screenshot also
says "CRYTEK reserves the right to periodically validate Your License through
subsequent online authentication."
Oh look, the installer's hung. I wonder why that is.
Online activation you say? Maybe they should ensure they actually have some clue about high-availablility services before they do that.
Should have bought through Steam...
Online activation you say? Maybe they should ensure they actually have some clue about high-availablility services before they do that.
Should have bought through Steam...
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