Heads up Warhead has limited activations

[flatfroggerx]

Both the Steam AND Retail versions are infected with the lalalalalalaed securom. 3 Activations just like spore.

Does The steam Version of Crysis Warhead have Securom/intall limits? - Steam Users' Forums

Answer is on page 3 and its Yes. Just a heads up make of it what you want.

[Spidery Yoda]

Now i'm usually one to never curse. At all. In general. Serious i'm 19 and I just never do. I don't like it. Save it for when I actually need to instead of most people who use them as standard every-other-word words.

But.

What the ****ing ****ing hell are Crytek thinking, the bunch of stupid ****ing ******* .

Are they TRYING to get less sales? Haven't they even LOOKED at whats happened to Spore? Do they now KNOW what people think of that DRM? They had a choice to avoid it with the Steam release because it meant it didn't have to go through the ****tards at EA's publishing rules. **** them. No sale.

I was going to buy it as well . Valve seriously need to start refusing games that have that lalalala in.

[Rumtruffle]

got warhead through the post today.

great not having to insert a dvd all time.

no problems at all with any protection schemes including this new online activation.

thumbs up from me.

[lmimmfn]

Originally Posted by Rumtruffle

got warhead through the post today.

great not having to insert a dvd all time.

I never have to have DVD in drive for any single player game

Originally Posted by Rumtruffle

no problems at all with any protection schemes including this new online activation.

thumbs up from me.

ok try this:
Dual boot your system with XP and vista, install on both, wipe the harddrive and install your OS's again and try and install Warhead on both, lol->second one wont install

Initial install= -1 activation
Change mobo= -1 activation
Change CPU= -1 install
Harddrive dies and needs replacement= -1 install
OS gets corrupted and requires clean reinstall= -1 install

Multiply all the above cases x2 if you use 2 Operating Systems on your PC and want the game running on both

[lmimmfn]

Confirmation from Crytek - Activation limit is 5 for Steam and Retail

“Our passion is making quality games. We put our heart and soul in every game and hope that our fans will enjoy them as well. For years, Crytek fans have been passionately supportive of our efforts and we appreciate all of your dedication.

We realize that copy protection and piracy is a very emotional and hotly debated topic. It is very hard to find a solution that fits both our needs. We need to make an effort to limit piracy but we do not want to limit the experience of our fans.

Warhead uses online authentication and allows up to five activations. This gives you the opportunity to install the game as many times as you want on five different machines.

We also know that multiplayer gamers have different needs, so Crysis Wars does not have an activation limit, but requires the game to be unlocked online once you start the game for the first time. Afterwards it will be possible to play in LAN without any online connection. The CD-key is only required when playing online.

I sincerely hope that you will enjoy playing Warhead as much as we enjoyed making it. We are very proud of it. Our community is the main reason we make games. If there is something you feel we could improve, please tell us what and why and we will do our best to listen to you.

Sincerely,
Cevat Yerli”

link - Crymod Modding Portal | Warhead | Crysis Warhead Copy Protection F.A.Q.

[Nightbringer]

l not keen on the 5 activations, it's off putting still.

[Tyndie]

Warhead uses online authentication and allows up to five activations. This gives you the opportunity to install the game as many times as you want on five different machines.

Thats fair enough. Vista is only 1. I doubt i will be playing warhead in 5 pc's time.

[lmimmfn]

Originally Posted by Tyndie

Thats fair enough. Vista is only 1. I doubt i will be playing warhead in 5 pc's time.

Its not 5 pcs, you can use up all 5 activations on just 1 PC

[Tyndie]

It says as many times as you want on 5 pc's, im guessing as long as there are no hardware changes.

[lmimmfn]

Originally Posted by Tyndie

It says as many times as you want on 5 pc's, im guessing as long as there are no hardware changes.

nope, also OS reinstalls, the following uses up activations:
Initial install= -1 activation
Change mobo= -1 activation
Change CPU= -1 install
Harddrive dies and needs replacement= -1 install
Any clean OS reinstall= -1 install
If you dual boot you double the number of activations, so if youve got it installed on XP and Vista on the same machine and your harddrive dies e.g. reinstalling it on both OS's again will mean 4 activations used in total

So far in the past 6 months ive reinstalled Vista 3 times between my 2 rigs and XP twice, most of which were for hardware changes however SP3 initial release had a bug and had to reinstall XP again

My main PC is a development rig, reinstalls every few months are a necessity

[flatfroggerx]

I predicted EA will up the activation count to 5 and act like they are top *** for doing so and they are heroes for it. They aren't, just common crooks complaining when their crooked scheme gets easily picked apart by honest people and other crooks.

[Splash-Damage]

Seems ok

[Pezanator]

so what happens if you get a stuffed install. as I thnk i have. If i uninstall, then reinstall, does this count as another Activation ?

No Worries, found this info on the whole deal, think i can live with it
(editCrysis Warhead

What i cant live with is getting kicked from all server no matter where i try, after the 1st few min's

[Nightbringer]

We know there is concern about what will happen if the authentication servers turn off or questions about what will happen in five years if you want to play the game again (and we hope you do). If that were to ever happen, Crytek and EA would deploy a patch that would remove the authentication requirement completely.

l feel abit better about the 5 activations.

[flatfroggerx]

Originally Posted by Nightbringer

l feel abit better about the 5 activations.

Why? because they give you 2 more? Its hardly anything better the rest of the bull**** is still there

[Nightbringer]

Originally Posted by flatfroggerx

Why? because they give you 2 more? Its hardly anything better the rest of the bull**** is still there

It's better then having nothing, yes l don't want it, unless everybody around the globe didn't buy the game because of it then they have to remove it, this £ and $ controls them.

[flatfroggerx]

Originally Posted by Nightbringer

It's better then having nothing, yes l don't want it, unless everybody around the globe didn't buy the game because of it then they have to remove it, this £ and $ controls them.

I dunno the spore protesting is working pretty well, the next big name game from EA for the PC is RA3 and thats already in the sights of the protest gun. Considering warhead has been cracked already and its taking heavy hits on amazon again EA really need to sort it out.

[Serpantino]

Well I just trotted onto Play to pick up Crysis Warhead only to find that it too has this bane upon it. £15 still in my pocket is always a good thing but I loved Crysis despite it's lackluster middle and was looking forward to this game a lot.

I picked up Spore before I discovered this idiotic technology and if I could return it I would (only played it for 2 days and am bored of it already) I also bought Mass Effect on pc a while back which also has it I think.... I can't even play that game as it crashes constantly and nobody seems to be doing Jack about it.

Securom+Extremely poor customer support= EA. I only hope something incredibly unfortunate happens to them and their publishing company is wiped from the face of the Earth.

[flatfroggerx]

Originally Posted by Serpantino

Well I just trotted onto Play to pick up Crysis Warhead only to find that it too has this bane upon it. £15 still in my pocket is always a good thing but I loved Crysis despite it's lackluster middle and was looking forward to this game a lot.

I picked up Spore before I discovered this idiotic technology and if I could return it I would (only played it for 2 days and am bored of it already) I also bought Mass Effect on pc a while back which also has it I think.... I can't even play that game as it crashes constantly and nobody seems to be doing Jack about it.

Securom+Extremely poor customer support= EA. I only hope something incredibly unfortunate happens to them and their publishing company is wiped from the face of the Earth.

Indeed, I was eyeing up the steam version until I heard about the activations then my copy of PC Gamer arrived and saw warhead only scraped a 60% with a ton of criticisms aimed at length/quality/polish/etc.

My friend got mass effect on PC, I got it on 360 on launch originally before EA gobbled bioware up. The quality of the 360 one is of a better standard than the PC one by far, I mean I was expecting the PC one to be a completely polished product considering how much they where crying OMG IT R NOT A PORT. But nope, stability issues, texture issues etc all plagued it, not to mention EA promised DLC on launch... when did it arrive? Months down the line.

[blinkyzoid]

What happens if I change my hardware, will that count as an activation? (E.g. graphics card, more RAM)

[lmimmfn]

Originally Posted by blinkyzoid

What happens if I change my hardware, will that count as an activation? (E.g. graphics card, more RAM)

???????????

[flatfroggerx]

Originally Posted by blinkyzoid

What happens if I change my hardware, will that count as an activation? (E.g. graphics card, more RAM)

It is quite likely.

[Spidery Yoda]

As far as I know hardware changes like that will trigger another activation. Could be wrong.

[BLaZiNgSPEED]

Why should changing a graphics card trigger the activation?!?! I find that extremely ilogical to imagine

[Spidery Yoda]

Because big hardware changes like that can cause it to think its a different PC.