Crysis: Warhead. EA. DRM?

[Azazel]

Anyone know anything about this?

And what about the Steam version?

[Big Gulp]

Anyone know anything about this?

And what about the Steam version?

I know it's made by Crytek, and so by definition is a big hunk of mediocrity wrapped in a layer of pretty.

[Azazel]

I didn't play Crysis (yet) but I thought Far Cry was a really good FPS. I liked the pretty, and the sandbox elements were also very nicely done. A nice change from FPS-rails.

[Yegolev]

Far Cry was great until the point where it turned into every other FPS I have ever played.

[rattran]

Crysis looks pretty, but I found it fairly uninspired. Got bored and put it aside after a couple hours.

If you just want a game where you can headshot/blow up North Koreans, get Mercenaries for the Xbox.

[NiX]

I didn't even last a couple hours. I put it away after 20 minutes and 15 of that was spent trying to get it to run at a reasonable framerate.

[Azazel]

yeah, I've got Mercs on Xbox.

Crysis:Warhead though is at a price-point that impulse-buying works for me. I'd snap it up right away via steam if it's not infetcted with some form of bullshit on there.

[schild]

EA is publishing it and the guy who made it bitched and moaned about piracy after selling a million copies. To think this wouldn't have some kind of DRM would be backwards logic. I'd expect the unholy union of Starforce and SecuROM.

[Azazel]

Well I expect it, to be sure.

I'm wondering how fucked it's going to be, and if Steam's version will share the fuckheadedness.

[Azazel]

Yep. Five activations, including Steam.


In other news, Bioshock had it's activation limite removed a few months ago.
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18452

If I knew this, and knew BS was on sale on Steam the other week for $15 I'd have definately purchased it...

[Vehementi]

Yup, impulse bought off steam, downloaded and installed, then had to reboot my machine because I apparently had run Process Explorer since last boot!