Did they ever actually remove it?

[spuddyt]

A long time ago, when I was a poor 17 year old with literally no money and too lazy to get a job, I missed out on a few good games - things like Crysis warhead, recently (i'm 18 now, woo!) I obtained sufficient money to honestly justify spending some money on a few games like that that which I missed.

However when I looked on amazon.co.uk, I read the reviews of CW, discovering that while most people recommended the game, the vast majority of reviews were negative and entirely about the DRM on it.

I assumed that by now, the DRM situation might have changed and looked into it, and found many mentions of EA "preparing" a deactivation system, so that one might be able remove an activation already used by using this tool on one's computer - this was, for me, the maximum acceptable degree of DRM for me, but I have yet to find a single mention of them actually implementing this system (the same goes for spore, by the way). So I must ask, did EA simply say they were implementing this to placate the masses while all the while doing precisely nothing towards actually implementing it? Or am I just pathetic at using google? If it turns out they did just say they would and then not, should we as consumers be enraged? In addition, do they still install securom?

Edit: also, any other games over the last year or so that I may have missed that are worth it? And another question, does the steam version install securom? (even if it does not activate it) (hmm, I keep adding questions to this thread, maybe i should have made a seperate one)

 

[thiosk]

wait, what?

anyway just get it by steam and skirt the issue entirely. Since steam downloads and archives everything ive ever bought, i consider it a perfectly acceptable form of drm

crysis so you are a pc gamer, obviously, with a beefy rig, so check out

--bioshock (i've heard)
--mass effect (was enjoyable)
--Empire: Total War (a beast of a game that i love and the bugs are just about sorted)
--dead space (space opera with squishy blood and guts)
--and my personal favorite, space opera simulation x3: terran conflict. Watch out though, its a sim, so its like watching the stock ticker on cnbc at times.

Don't check out dawn of war 2

 

[GonzoGamer]

If you're playing it on the PC, Fallout 3.
Dawn of War 2, if you wish RTSs were more violent and less farming.

 

[lordcookies]

You should check out:

-Burnout Paradise(same of the good ol' destruction and mayhem)
-Bioshock (An fps with a great "ambiance" and gameplay)
-The Last Remnant (An RPG final fantasy style, a good CPU should remove the glitches)

DON'T play dawn of war 2! It ruins completely the concept of an RTS game.
Play Dawn of war - Soulstorm if you want a good rts

 

[Leorex]

to ansoer your question, i think your right, although i do not own spore or cryses, (because of drm ), i think all they did was say they would remove it.

 

[MasterSqueak]

Dawn of War 2 is far superior to Soulstorm, it actually requires thought. In my opinion anyway.

 

[-Seraph-]

Yes EA made a de authorization tool for their games like Mass Effect, Crysis Warhead, Spore ect.. http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/index.html enjoy. Option 2 downloads the tool for you to use on your comp, you can ignore opt 1. Oh and no to my knowledge the steam version does not install securom due to the fact that steam is essentially a form of DRM in it's own class so if you can't be bothered with the tool you could just go for the steam version but it's not that big of a hassle.

 

[xenus87]

Crysis warhead does remove an activation whenever you uninstall it, the same way bioshock does/did.