RA3 AIDS

[LegalSmash]

From the reviews on IGN, and EA's SOP, Red Alert 3 comes with SECUROM and limited installations. Buy at your own risk, I probably will not.

[Astrum]

Urge to kill rising...

[Red Tampon]

The creator of securom is a fucking cunt

[Dracula]

fucking EA

[Veggie]

I'll buy it, the way Securerom works is before you uninstall you have to revoke the Securerom activation so you can use it again and you get like 5 installs, if you don't revoke it before uninstalling it counts towards the 5 installs, if you use all 5 you just contact EA and they'll fix it.

Agreed it's a big hassle to go through and I wish EA did not use Securerom.

[Astrum]

...if you don't revoke it before uninstalling it counts towards the 5 installs, if you use all 5 you just contact EA and they'll fix it.

Are you sure about that?

Quick update. As many conversations as I’ve had about this, it turns out I got an important detail wrong so I need to clarify something important.

An uninstall does not return the entitlement to the user. I’ll be updating my original post to reflect this.

Only five unique machines can be licensed with the same installation code. So you will be limited to a total of five machine activations.

However, we will ensure that nobody gets left in the lurch. Our customer service organization is committed to granting additional authorizations on a case- by-case basis for those folks who have good reason to need additional installs.

I am really sorry about the confusion, guys. I asked several people about this and thought I had it down, but obviously didn't. Totally my bad.

[Master Queef]

So who here actually NEEDS to install a game on 5 different PCs in order to play a game?

[jeN]

I do not want to buy AIDS. =[

[LegalSmash]

I'll buy it, the way Securerom works is before you uninstall you have to revoke the Securerom activation so you can use it again and you get like 5 installs, if you don't revoke it before uninstalling it counts towards the 5 installs, if you use all 5 you just contact EA and they'll fix it.

Agreed it's a big hassle to go through and I wish EA did not use Securerom.

Actually no, its 5 installs, period. EA has info on the EULA about the policy. They are carrying over a lot of bullshit from the Spore debacle. Veg, also, its an unnecessarily draconian action for EA to take, the online features of the game alone can serve as copy protection without additional invasive measures. Why should you have to go through all that to play a second rate, aging dinosaur game?

This game will be computer poison, I think unless its fixed, I'd rather have orks.

The question should also be why should my money only serve to purchase a license, rather than the actual medium I purchased, queef. If I paid 10 dollars and only got the license for a period, I would not complain, but 50 for a disc that I may not be able to use one day if I have several reformats over the years or am fortunate enough to fall into money to purchase progressively better computers. In addition to this, a disc that I have to put into the fucking machine every time I want to play?

EA needs to get on the future ball and take a hint from stardock. Or they will look like this:

[Astrum]

So who here actually NEEDS to install a game on 5 different PCs in order to play a game?

The wording is a little confusing, most likely intentionally, but you're basically given 5 installs, period. Perhaps you buy a new computer, you're out one install. Maybe your hard drive crashes, out an install. Running out of space? Well don't uninstall RA3, that's one install gone. And what if you buy it second hand from someone who has already played it? Perhaps they used up all the installs, then you're buying a reflective coaster. You're basically renting the game sort of like they do movies online now. You can watch it a certain number of times, then poof, it's gone.

As Legal pointed out you're buying a license. I forgot to bring this up in the piracy thread, but I've noticed that an increasing number of publishers will treat a sale as a license when it benefits them, but also a product when it benefits them. Sort of an attempt to form a bastardized hybrid to make sure they side step any laws stopping them from ass fucking their customers.

Perhaps it's a good thing I couldn't find the game last night.