New DRM explained

[junk2drive]

http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=95785

4 activations per year.

 

[dalem]

Yet another nail in the coffin for PC games, for me. I'm not saying I know of a better solution, but I know that my board games are MINE.

-dale

 

[Redwolf]

The scheme looks better than the old eLicense but at this point I wonder why bother protecting at all. It's 5 activations you can get right away. And I didn't see a strong hardware check, so binary copy also works. Unfortunately Moon decided to misunderstand my further questions and the discussion went nowhere but whatever.

 

[thewood]

I really don't like limited licensing without an un-activate tool. I have two applications gathering dust because of that very issue.

btw, shouldn't they have announced this at pre-order time? I didn't see anything about it, but might have missed it.

I did notice the number of issues the new system had on TOW3.

 

[dalem]

btw, shouldn't they have announced this at pre-order time? I didn't see anything about it, but might have missed it.

Yeah, but who'd be silly enough to pre-order from BFC at this point anyway?



-dale

 

[junk2drive]

I am surprised at the number of people posting that elicense was the better of the two choices.

 

[thewood]

I think eLicense is much better. I have never had good experiences with limited activations and no unlicense tool. Plus I think this is a custom built tool. And my experience is that small companies building their own tools is a recipe for not getting your game running.

 

[Elvis]

Plus I think this is a custom built tool. And my experience is that small companies building their own tools is a recipe for not getting your game running.

It isn't a tool built by BFC.

I've only had limited exposure to it so far so I couldn't speak to any long term concerns. It works fine so far is about all I can add on the subject.

 

[thewood]

I am curious about what is going to happen if eLicense goes out of business? Will BFC make you patch your game tot eh new system.

 

[Caractacus]

Ever since CM:SF I've never underestimated BFC's knack for picking out and fusing together the worst aspects of two different worlds.

What a ludicrous state of affairs!

 

[Redwolf]

If the game is successful enough we'll get a no-CD patch pretty quickly.

 

[KG_Jag]

DRM is a continuing issue for more than one small wargaming company. See this thread from the SES forum:

http://forums.gamesquad.com/showthread.php?99693-Interesting-DRM-article

Note especially post #10 which goes into detail about the Battlefront (elicense?) DRM used for CMSF.