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Originally Posted by Zhuangzi
Can you tell me what some of the problems that Securom can cause are?
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Those I've listed above, though it's dependent on the variant of SecuROM used (I don't that was clarified yet, actually). Digital downloads would only have online activation, so optical drive related problems would not surface there. Last game I've bought that used this would not install unless I turned the anti-virus off, though. There's the obvious limitation of being tied to the activation servers, so you'll only be able to install it as long as they're up. I'd think that'll get removed eventually, as the devs did the same in Russian version. Overall, I'd say the worst case would be being unable to activate the game due to SecuROM not working as it should, and having to bug customer support about it. (Of course, no software is perfect, it's that DRM is an additional and completely unnecessary source of errors.)
For the boxed version, the full list of possibilities apply.
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Originally Posted by Zhuangzi
Do we really need to be getting as upset about it as we did with Starforce?  |
You don't
need to get upset about it, but if you do, and manage to be entertaining at the same time, then do post it on youtube, like
this guy (WARNING: heavy swearing).
Kidding aside, it's not as bad as Starforce, though that's not saying much. It's still pretty buggy in general, doing more harm than good. Installing software to Ring 0, creating hidden and undeletable files without the user's knowledge is shady business - absurdly enough, it has come to a point where it's easier to trust the cracker groups than the publishers rigging such measures onto their software.
09-28-2008, 01:18 AM
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