I bought Test Drive Unlimited II at launch for PC. And then I upgraded my graphics card, motherboard and RAM, one at a time, not knowing each one was silently using up an activation. Now I'm out of activations and I can't play a game I legally bought on the very HDD on which it was first installed even with the damned disc in the drive. Their support doesn't wanna hear it. Given the game's not great, (I only want to see how well it runs now) and it's what, six months down the line, I'd expect like most games for the DRM to be removed in the last patch. If I can't play a legally bought copy with the disc in the drive using the same install of Windows I had when I bought it, what exactly has this world come to. Screw Atari, and screw their restrictions. I'm not buying their games again if all they will do is decide I'm unworthy of playing them six months down the line.
My DRM Tirade
- Thread starter nexekho
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On the one hand it is a pretty valid complaint. On the other, these systems have been around long enough that you should have been aware that hardware changes did that. But maybe you don't keep up with gamer go-around, I don't really know.
Yeah, naturally the first thing I think of when replacing my graphics card, is "better go run every single game I have with the /revoke command line switch!". What happens if my graphics card DIED, eh, and I cannot revoke it? And people wonder why pirates laugh at the concept of putting down hard cash for anything these days.