BioWare’s technical producer Derek Frenchhas announceda surprising new copy protection scheme thatrequires the user to be onlineat regular intervals while playing bothMass EffectandSporeon the PC. If you are not online to validate your copy of either game every ten days, your product will stop working. Wait … what?
After the first activation, SecuROM requires that [Mass EffectPC] re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez’d and gets banned)
… After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run.
I’m not really a PC gamer, but my gut instinct on this is that it’s a stupid idea and I can see something going wrong. People are already reacting pretty badly to the news online, and I can see the backlash escalating, along with any number of problems that can arise from expecting paying customers to continually prove that they’re not pirates.
[Cheers to John Berger]
