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It's now normal for game publishers to release details about the game's DRM, for fear of a public backlash on release. Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the game by DICE and released by notorious DRM fiends EA, also has DRM, but perhaps it strikes just the right balance between preventing piracy and not annoying loyal customers.
The disc version of the game will feature the standard DVD check, the most simple kind without intrusive software being installed. But there is a second option where after you authenticate online once, you will never need to use the DVD again for 10,000 days, or 27 years. With this other DRM option, you are limited to installing the game on 10 machines at any one time, each time using up an "install credit" - uninstalling the game gives you back the "install credit", which then allows you to install the game one more time on another computer.
So there's no need for the game to be authenticated each time it is played, like what is being proposed by Ubisoft, and there's no nasty DRM that installs itself as a rootkit and can't be clean away.
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The disc version of the game will feature the standard DVD check, the most simple kind without intrusive software being installed. But there is a second option where after you authenticate online once, you will never need to use the DVD again for 10,000 days, or 27 years. With this other DRM option, you are limited to installing the game on 10 machines at any one time, each time using up an "install credit" - uninstalling the game gives you back the "install credit", which then allows you to install the game one more time on another computer.
So there's no need for the game to be authenticated each time it is played, like what is being proposed by Ubisoft, and there's no nasty DRM that installs itself as a rootkit and can't be clean away.
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