Beware of BioWare!

[guenthar]

Tippex: The data would already be in plain text on the persons computer so they wouldn't copy it over to another place to encrypt it. You may beable to see the data on your computer but how do you know what they encrypted and transfered since they would encrypt it directly.

When it comes to game companies/DRM companies taking your personal information why can't they. Online companies do it all the time and lawmakers can't make a law to let online companies do it but game companies/DRM companies can't. All they would have to do is put a clause in their EULA that states that information is transfered to the company and the company has no obligation to reveal what it does with said information.

I have read this thread and unlike what you are implying it is the other way around when it comes to who is the troll. DABhand has been spouting off BS and only one time gave any kind of evidence and they were isolated factors to this argument.

Just to let everyone know Securom is one of the most used game protection systems in use and you can't do an activation by phone so all games that come out with Securom protection won't work on offline computers. How it is going I can see there not being one game that comes out from the big publishers not using online activation and a majority of those won't have phone activations. The only thing you can do by phone is get more activation attempts with Securom.

PS. Tippex: Not all excryptions have been decrypted and for such a small amount of information as "personal information" it would be easy to have it encrypted in an undecryptable encryption and send it over the internet.

PS. DABhand: From how you view things it sounds like if all games start using this kind of protection then I guess someone that uses and offline computer to play games shouldn't even play newer games at all and leave his computer either to rot or only play older games. Thsi is going to happen soon since most games are going like that. (there are also indie games he/she could play but not much more soon)

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by guenthar

PS. DABhand: From how you view things it sounds like if all games start using this kind of protection then I guess someone that uses and offline computer to play games shouldn't even play newer games at all and leave his computer either to rot or only play older games. Thsi is going to happen soon since most games are going like that. (there are also indie games he/she could play but not much more soon)

I didnt say all games, I said games that require online activation.

But unfortunate that it is, the PC market is an ever growing one in terms of hardware, its inevitable that people will have to upgrade their systems.

And again people have to stop just lifting software from shelves without checking specifics first.

I own a PC store, and the amount of people who had to spend more money just to play a game their kid was desperatly wanting to play is huge. When they could have took the time (even if they are not PC savvy) to check things first.

Even the savvy PC users fail to even check specs for software and whats required to play.

[guenthar]

What does anything you said have anything to do with what I said?

1. I said that most games are going to "online activation" which would prevent anyone who plays games on an offline computer not to be able to play almost any modern game. If I could afford it I would have a seperate computer for playing games and using the internet since all the overhead for having an internet connection slows down other things you are doing. I guess by the time I get out of college and can afford to do that there will be very few games available that I could play other then old games and indie games. With this by your reasoning I should either keep suffering through slow downs and unstable gameplay on a computer that has all the excess bagage that comes with having an internet conection or not even beable to play games at all (I could play indie games and older games with my internet based computer since they have lower requirements.)

There are probably other gamers like me that actually want to play there games at the highest settings without slowdowns and since I don't have to listen to you I will beable to since I can just download cracks for all those games I will be playing on my high end offline gaming pc since all of them will have online activation.

PS. Soon enough you will be looking at game boxes and every one of them will say "Internet Access Required" and then a group of hackers take down the DNS servers and noone will be buying games anymore.