Question about games with SecuRom

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kajunlassgotcha

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Hi all, I'm not starting a thread about whether SecuRom is good or bad and what not. I'm just asking if anyone has games with this DRM on it and if it has caused any problems. I'm a casual gamer(Maple Story, occasional Guild Wars, WoW, and World of Goo are some...) and my PC came with the trial version of Spore's Creature Creator. I don't believe that pirating games is an okay thing.
So to repeat myself, does anyone play any games with SecuRom and has it affected your PC?
I've done a good bit of reading and the people that it seems to affect are those with emulator(not sure what that is) or something like that.
Any help would be great. Please and thank-you.
K
 
I avoid secure rom like the plague it is..it sets up rootkit type software into your machine and intentionally prevents you from doing things like cloning your cd to your hdd and then mounting that as a cd..among others. I have had client mahcines get hard drives corrupted with this garbage leading to the loss of data on the drive...cd-rom drives being locked out..etc etc. Many folks don't have any issues..that they see. The biggest issue with secure rom is that it has one major malware behavior..once you put it on your box it iwll not allow you to uninstlal it without a special software tool and sometimes that won't work. NO thanks on any kind of copy proteciton on cd's.
 
Hescominsoon said:
NO thanks on any kind of copy proteciton on cd's.
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lol I remember the old Sony protection stuff on their music CDs. What a disastor that was. Those CDs locked up my MACs cd-rom so I could not open it except by force (*hides from HCS as he tells me I should not have pryed it open*)
 
Wow. That's just disappointing. I bought Spore Galactic Edition(it was on sale) and installed it. I didn't notice any problems but here's the catch, my HP came with the Trial Version of Spore Creature Creator on it. I heard/read all the things that I could and uninstalled the game, used special programs to remove the registry keys and whatnot. I hoped that I had done that in vain.
That's just really disappointing that they did that. The only problem that I noticed was burning CD's in iTunes. The burn time went from 2-5minutes to like 20minutes. Although, apparently, it's a problem with iTunes itself.
Still, I did waste $50 on a game not to mention some others. So sad.
 
I wouldn't uninstall it if you want to play it. For one if you installed the DRM once it is their until you reformat(people can corrent me if I am wrong). The other thing to is that for the most part users who are using there computer for just playing games ect and dont have anything fancy are unlikely to have any problems (Guarantee not included ;) )- it would just not make comercial sense to destroy your machine and no matter what anybody says no company is that stupid, not one that has been around as long as EA). From what I can tell most of the arguments around home computing revolve around misinformation in that DRM is installed on your computer without your knowledge. I have not heard a great deal about home computer problems so if you install it I would say the odds are on your side.
 
There are several tools available that I used including SecuRom's and one from Microsoft so that I was able to uninstall it. I'm trying to wrap my brain around the fact that it was probably already on my machine when I bought it considering that the CC was on there anyway. So, I'm probably okay but, eh, I'm a little cautious. I lost my last laptop b/c of a trojan that I couldn't get rid of.
 
ppar3566 said:
I wouldn't uninstall it if you want to play it. For one if you installed the DRM once it is their until you reformat(people can corrent me if I am wrong). The other thing to is that for the most part users who are using there computer for just playing games ect and dont have anything fancy are unlikely to have any problems (Guarantee not included ;) )- it would just not make comercial sense to destroy your machine and no matter what anybody says no company is that stupid, not one that has been around as long as EA). From what I can tell most of the arguments around home computing revolve around misinformation in that DRM is installed on your computer without your knowledge. I have not heard a great deal about home computer problems so if you install it I would say the odds are on your side.
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drm not installed without your knowledge....one word for you..vista.
 
Hescominsoon said:
drm not installed without your knowledge....one word for you..vista.
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Xcuse my ignorance but does that mean it is there without your knowledge or only installs if you say I agree. I only have Crysis which has DRM and I can't remember accepting it but I never read those things anyway. Oh and wasn't there that court case where the defendant claimed something about DRM installing without permission or something.
 
ppar3566 said:
Xcuse my ignorance but does that mean it is there without your knowledge or only installs if you say I agree. I only have Crysis which has DRM and I can't remember accepting it but I never read those things anyway.
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It's in there. :)

ppar3566 said:
Oh and wasn't there that court case where the defendant claimed something about DRM installing without permission or something.
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That was in California. A class action (I think) against EA involving Spore's DRM.
 
I think the suits are ongoing. I'm just disappointed that the company has made it hard for those of us that like to do things legally. Do what's right or what's easy. Thanks for the input ya'll.
 
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