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DRM all over the place

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 28 / 36
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As far as I am concerned a game that can not be used without significant restrictions is seriously flawed. From a customer standpoint buying Mass Effect is not classical purchase but a lease with an unknown duration and partly undisclosed terms.

Just for the record, the game was cracked within two days - while the customers suffer, the pirates laugh.

NO DRM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 28 / 36
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played this game on a friend's PC and LOVED IT.

Been excited about this game since I saw the first trailer, but after reading about the problems with DRM... Sorry, I'll have to pass. No game is worth allowing a company to punish its paying customers so much.

Mark me up as another gamer who would rather never play a game they've been looking forward to, than to take a hard DRM up the kiester.

3 activations = complete joke

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 33 / 45
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's ridiculous that we can only install the game three times and then have to beg EA to install again. Just say no.

Show them a massive effect of a massive defect

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 52 / 82
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of Bioware and their games have given me many weeks of gaming pleasure over the years. I am also sure that Mass Effect is a game on the verge of all-time greatness and deserves a five star rating.

However, the decision to load the game full of DRM malware which hijacks your PC, obligatory internet activations, limiting the number of installations (and god knows what else) deserves to be met by an all-out boycott.

Treating the paying customers who cannot wait to give you their money like thieves under the guise of anti-piracy is THE best way to drive people to pirated/cracked versions which will, at least in this case, be much better, more enjoyable and safer way to play. I wanted to buy and play this, but NO game is worth suffering this abuse for.

This whole mass defect made me so mad that I ended the last sentence in a preposition. Need I say more?

NeverAgain

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 25 / 31
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I will never pre-purchase another game ever again. After reading all the complaints about Mass Effect which I have to concur with from my own experience. Can't afford a new graphics card if the odds are it won't work.
Sorry to see EA blunder again. Moral of the Mass Effect story is to wait for the smoke to clear before you purchase!

Deciding to Pass on an Old Evil

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 25 / 31
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In all fairness I decided to read through 5 pages of these reviews to see if I wanted to try this game. The reason for this is something that EA did long ago that left a bad taste in the mouths of THOUSANDS of gamers. EARTH AND BEYOND (Remember that EA?) was a game very similar in so much as it was space, multiplayer, etc. What EA did here was simply sell out the gaming engine to a larger company and WHAM they shut down the servers. After charging $60 a copy for this game, they ran it 2 years or so and destroyed EVERYONE'S access. I do not trust Electronic Arts but because this was a Space genre and I love them, I decided to just peek and see if things had changed. Apparently things HAVE changed, for the worse. NO, I will not install your "security" software that is being forcefed by your game. If you can't control access with game codes like 2/3 of the other gaming community companies, tough. This is another attempt by Microsoft to herd millions of gamers to console by selling a crap PC plat and then cashing in on a Xbox sale. NOT going to happen. And I stand by my original stance, I will never own another EA title... And btw, after so many pages of bad reviews, you see the 5-stars so many in succession, I would bet that EA has their PR department overloaded writing their own rebuttal reviews. Do yourself a favor, avoid EA, they deserve it.

DRM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 35 / 49
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing computer games since before Zork on the Apple 2E. I've played all of the great games including System Shock 2, Planescape Torment and Arx Fatalis. I love playing a well made game but I have to say I will not play any game that requires an activation on line and a rootkit in my computer. When Half Life came out with Steam I wrote them a nasty letter saying that I would never play another Steam game, and I haven't. I also refused to buy Bioshock for the same reason. I always purchased my games and never pirated any but I refuse to go along with this DRM nonsense. A good game can stand on it's own merits and people will continue to buy from the same company. I loved Far Cry and I loved the Witcher. If the Witcher sold over 500,000 copies without DRM then they must be doing something right. Maybe if the customers hurt these companies in the pocketbook by not buying their products they will get the message.

Worse Choice Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 26
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Listen when people say this DRM is a problem and a pain. Right now I have a fifty dollar paper weight. I wanted to play this game it looked great for X-Box but it causes to many system problems even on a very powerful gaming computer. I went from trying to play Mass effect which caused several software conflicts and system crashes to going back to Icewind Dale a game made In early 2000 without codes and protection. Now I must admit I will not buy any product with DRM or anything like it. Now I will wait till the hacker and piraters fix it and then if I want it I'll play it. Ive only felt the need to have one hacked game because I didnt think it would be good then I bought the expansion packs which still made the company some money. Bottom line is this program only effects Legit buyers making them get pirated versions. Only get this for X-box if you own one

Avoid this version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 52 / 83
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As others mention, this has nasty "activation" DRM. I've been waiting well over a year to buy it, but obviously skipped it because of that.

Luckily there's a decent alternative-rent it or buy it for the 360. Okay, not ideal. For a variety of reasons I'd rather play it on PC, but I've just rented it on the 360 and it plays fine from what I've seen so far. Just don't support products that tie your game to a particular system or install through "activation".

Game is Bugged!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 33 / 46
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's impossible to reliably save in this game!
Additionally the restrictive DRM, this product is made of fail.

Anyone still interested should wait until EA releases a patch which adresses the many issues and removes the DRM.

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