Red Alert 3 to use "more lenient" DRM

[admin]

The game will only need to be authenticated online once after installation, according to a developer post on the official forums, and can be reinstalled up to five times. EA support can be contacted if further installations are needed. Red Alert 3 will also run without a CD.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=233484

Still pretty draconian. The thing is, the actual pirated version will probably have the DRM removed, while the authentic purchased version is the one that causes all the frustration.

[drfsupercenter]

Yeah, there are always pirated versions that remove the DRM... and I think the developers need to learn that all they're doing by DRM'ing their games is encouraging more people to pirate it.

Oddly enough, I own Warcraft 3: Battle Chest (back when it just had both games on their original discs), and when you install it it asks for a CD every time. But yet, there's a "cracked" exe that makes the game run without a CD... so everything is installed automatically when you install it from the original CD. Why it needs the CD is beyond me... maybe it was to discourage people from renting the game, installing it, and returning.