EA Infects Battlefield Hardline with new ghastly DRM
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harkinsteven
Thank god I have no interest in this obvious cash grab. EA and UBI are the debil.
Denial
Probably for the best, not only is it not a good game but it looks noticeably worse then Battlefield 4 for some reason.
LiviuTM
Are you kidding me? Maybe you should marry one configuration and stay together Till Death Do You Part.
Great job, EA :finger2:
Gumby
Not so sure it's about piracy so much as the cheating in the game as this article explains. "BF4 cheaters are now hardware banned, but hackers already have a solution" http://bf4central.com/2015/02/bf4-cheaters-hardware-ban/
Also http://youtu.be/1LlCUXYgx4c
chinobino
You give them free advertising and they give you the finger - nice. 🙄
TheDo114
Wow I don't like this at all. They never mentioned it once before or after release and expect us to never find it or just let it slip by?
vbetts
Moderator
Glad I skipped this one.
StewieTech
Now that´s bull**** if i ever saw it. EA sucks.
hansip87
If Only Cities Skyline has graphic benchmark worthy quality 🙂 plus i know you like City building Hilbert.. 😉
Horus-Anhur
As if Origin was not enough, now we have to deal with another piece of DRM on the same game.....
EA has so little respect for their costumers.
SiRDamiano
I can only say, no words.
Maybe some legal in the field can investigate this behaviours?
Suggesting just a lot of petitions to stop this on time for all, this is becoming stup*d!
EA find another way to obtain money, something like: Code better or milk lesser for DLCs
Arbold
Glad i skipped hardline after the horrible BF4. No more EA games for me it seems.
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Hilbert on top of his game (no pun intended) as usual. Nice find... well, for those that were on the fence about whether or not to pick this up. Wounder why no other sites have reported this yet.
Did EA make this info available anywhere (EULA, FAQs etc) or is it a complete stealth mission from EA.
Turanis
Yeah,tipically big publishers etc.
Even if you change your CPU over 8 times you are blocked,so EA get our finger. 😀
"The second problem is Origin. We had to cut some testing as EA's platform only allows us to change the CPU/GPU up to eight times per account before locking us out. We were forced use four different accounts to produce this article!
After eight hardware changes we get hit with "we're sorry, an error has occurred...too many computers have accessed this account's version of Battlefield Hardline recently. Please try again later." Ohh how I long for a Steam version of Hardline."
source techspot
JonasBeckman
Should be the same with Lords of the Fallen and Dragon Age: Inquisition and any other game that is using Denuvo, pretty sure Star-Force, Tages and SecuROM also had hardware ID checks too albeit not as intrusive.
Denuvo seems to be a pretty light DRM but it is pretty invasive too or how it's called but it does work as it takes up to several months before the games are properly cracked, partially because there's so many different system configurations although as Hilbert discovered if you do upgrade your PC components often this error will pop up after a while.
(Should just need to mail support and reset the existing activations, Star-Force and SecuROM had methods so the end user could do this himself but I don't think Denuvo has anything like that which is unfortunate as customer support for big corporations like EA, Valve or Ubisoft can be pretty slow.)
miffywiffy
I haven't bought an EA game since Dragon Age 1, they produce nothing but ****.
PNeV
Some companies simply do not know how to use DRM properly. StarForce will be brought back before long.
WildAce
They prob saw the crap sales and thought it was piracy
SirJamesDTech
Things like this are specifically why I didn't join the others in celebrating when John Riccitiello got canned.
The trash level at EA with the decision makers has a very wide range of counterproductivity.
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Cant find anything that mentions hardware change limits etc in the below link from EAs site.
http://www.ea.com/terms-of-service#section23
http://www.ea.com/1/product-eulas
That crap... It made so many of my physical copies of games unusable. FC1 in Ubis budget brand retail lineup had SF, it spun so fast in my drive the center of the disk shattered.
