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can you further elaborate on that? 5 install limit? DRM ? i have steam and some games . im keen on buying this
DRM - Digital Rights Management - their way of controlling what you do with the game you bought. All DRM is bad for the consumer, some worse than others.
The usual steam DRM is that the games are tied to your steam login, and you can install on whatever computers you like - just have to log-in with steam before you use them (with some provisions for off-line use).
The crysis games add an extra layer of DRM restrictions, that you can only install them a limited number of times - you can re-install on the same computer without it being counted, but if you upgrade, or change computers, or maybe laptop/destop/work then these are counted as seperate installs - and you can only have 5 over the lifetime of the game. If you are a serious gamer this could be really bad since upgrades are a way of life, not a once every 3 yrs like the "normal" people :)
Even worse IMHO - since this means the product is talking to some other DRM servers besides valve(steam) - if EA turn those servers off, you may not be able to install the game at all in the future (its happened with other games. Sometimes the vendor is nice and releases a unlimited use patch, more often you never know until you go to install and it won't let you play.)
Hope that helped
Jen
how would they know that you are on a computer. do they track ur windows cd key or something. if i clone my harddrive how would they know its a new computer…
also i have this game. its terrible. and exactly like the first one. and i mean EXACTLY. nice graphics and all, but no ragdoll physics? fail much
When you install it, the game insists on talking to the DRM servers before it will let you play (or maybe let you play a bit, then keep bugging you - not sure with the SecurRom now days (I avoid any content locked up against me). The DRM servers keep track of the machine(s) its installed on and if the new install config doesn't match one on record, they count it as a new install. Of course how much you can change with upgrades before they count it is anyone's guess. How long EA will keep the servers up so you can install it at all - also anyone's guess.
Hence why I avoid DRM unless they give me something back for it… Steam allows me to download and re-install any game I've registered on to any system no matter if I can find the media or not. Valve has also promised that if they ever turn the steam servers off, they will put in place a way for people to keep playing. Other features that all up mean I'm ok with having games that are locked via Steam. SecurRom on the other hand just takes away (features, flexibility - from me)
All just imho, ymmv, afaik, etc
Jen
Valve will only have the rights to unlock their games if steam was to fold. Each game developer or publisher would likely have to ok any change like that as valve probably wouldn't have the rights. I wouldn't place much more faith in their service than ea's if server closure is something that concerns you.
thank god for bittorrent
Not at all against game publishers protecting their product, but I refuse to buy any games with this type of DRM, on principle alone, regardless of how good the game itself is.
these appear to have a 5 install limit with more DRM than the usual steam stuff. Still a good deal, but people are complaining on the steam forums about hitting the limit and not getting any joy with EA even with proof of purchase.
Maybe not a deal for people who upgrade their computers often. (damn you 9289! :-)