First I thought the DRM in dead space is harsh, then I encountered the DRM in Mass Effect. Even worser. Both games are published by EA. This attempt to prevent piracy is far over the top. It ONLY hits legitimate customers, purchasers, owners (loaners) of the game. I said "loaners" because the regular purchaser gets the state of a loaner. This scheme does a bad job to prevent piracy or to motivate people to buy games. It does the opposite ! It encourages customers who got affronted by this DRM attack to become a pirate !
The ugliest thing is, that not the box or the manual describes the DRM method that is used ! That's very misleading.
I don't really think that this DRM can stay for long. It will quickly cause a massive impact on sales. For sure.

one of the most effective ways to reduce piracy and encourage legal sales is to RELEASE F**KING PATCHES

What I want to know is. What does EA consider to be the "natural life" of dead space? Haloween is coming up and that means a reinstallation of Dead Space to celebrate the holiday, but that also means another install down the drain. I'm really looking forward to this supposed patch that will remove the install limit, but I hate the phrase "natural life." For all we know the natural life of Dead Space could be 5+ years from now. I don't know, I love Dead Space, but every time I have to unistall it for hard drie space reasons I just get frusterated.

So I've legally bought a game, installed it from two DVDs, and now I'm blocked from playing it because the DRM dosen't get on with my anti-virus.. and it seems that since EA couldn't be bothered to tell me this might be an issue at any point before I hit it. So I have a wrecked install.

Thanks. But still, you've got my cash, and that's the important thing, I suppose.

Hey, EA...

I think it's safe to say that Dead Space is old now. So... Where's that patch you promised to remove the DRM? You can't even FIND the retail copy in stores anymore, so piracy is a non-issue...

On a related note, I made a thread about this no too long ago, and it was deleted. So is the DRM going to be removed or not? I shouldn't need to be online to install and play my SINGLE PLAYER game.

eajamespond wrote:

DRM in the future

We all like to know that if we invest in a game today, we will be able to play it years into the future. If you?re worried about your ability to play the game down the line, we will have a solution for that too. Once the game has lived its natural life and the risk for piracy had died down, we plan to patch our copy protection out of Dead Space.

The bottom line is that we will never make it impossible for you to play a game that you paid for, even is that is years from now.