EA amends SecuROM limited activations with De-Authorization Tool. - by Ostriig
Ostriig on 1/4/2009 at 14:37
If this is EA's idea of April Fools I'll be pissed. Though not really surprised, it would be in their style.
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Originall Posted by (http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/) http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/Certain EA PC games with SecuROM digital rights management technology allow users to concurrently "authorize" up to five computers at the same time to play the games. Users can then play the game on any authorized computer they choose. If your EA PC game was released after May 2008 and has a machine authorization limit, you can now manage your computer authorizations using EA De-Authorization Tools!
More details on the site. Apparently, they're releasing game-specific uninstallation tools, as well as a universal management system that checks which EA games you have installed (with this DRM method) and then tells you how many activations you have left.
EvaUnit02 on 1/4/2009 at 14:41
Seems legit, it detected Crysis Warhead which I have activated at the moment under this OS partition (Vista x64).
Jason Moyer on 1/4/2009 at 14:54
Awesome. I've installed Spore once, and somehow I'm using 3 activations.
Matthew on 1/4/2009 at 15:50
Flip me, with this tool and the revelation that Sims 3 won't have online activation, are EA finally seeing sense?
gunsmoke on 1/4/2009 at 17:34
It sure seems that way, Matthew! Hope the trend catches on. EA seems to be genuinely trying to rectify their DRM mis-steps, and I am all for it!
Queue on 1/4/2009 at 18:30
Quote Posted by Matthew
Flip me, with this tool and the revelation that Sims 3 won't have online activation, are EA finally seeing sense?
I won't buy any game that requires online activation.
...still haven't bought GTA-IV for this reason alone
EvaUnit02 on 2/4/2009 at 04:28
Quote Posted by Queue
I won't buy any game that requires online activation.
...still haven't bought GTA-IV for this reason alone
So you've never played Half-Life 2, the HL2 episodes or Portal? Your loss.
Fafhrd on 2/4/2009 at 07:05
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Awesome. I've installed Spore once, and somehow I'm using 3 activations.
Same for me. There will probably be a lot of angry e-mails sent to EA over this. For some reason I don't care all that much.
[edit]Despite my apathy, I've filed a support claim, just to see what happens.
Jason Moyer on 2/4/2009 at 12:15
It's really irritating that I have to install all of those games again just to deactivate and uninstall them. I really don't mind this DRM scheme at all, I've had no problems with it and I love legal discless gaming, but FFS they should have had the game deactivate at uninstall like Far Cry 2 does.
RavynousHunter on 2/4/2009 at 21:46
Quote Posted by Matthew
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is EA finally seeing sense?
Probably not. Remember, we -are- talking about the dickheads who killed off Origin, then had the balls to still use the name when they released shit like Samurai Empires for UO.
