Originally Posted by EvilInside Crysis 1 actives on Origin?

Nope; most older EA games [like Crysis] don't activate on Origin.
You can trying bugging EA support, and they could add the Origin version of Crysis, but it's basically a hit-n-miss with them depending on your EA support rep.
It still works fine by downloading/installing from Amazon; basically the digital form of the DVD version.

Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals The next couple of weeks are going to be stupid awesome . Look forward to deals on Deus Ex ($6.99/$7.99 Standard/Augmented) Dungeon Siege III $5, some KILLER Double Fine deals, Serious Sam Franchise sales and our May event, which you guys are going to go nuts for. Cheers, Tony

i like the sound of that. it's been a while since i've added to my backlog and i'm going through game purchase withdrawl...my hands are shaking...i can't concentrate...i need a fix!!!

Hey Tony,
So whats the deal with Madden '08?
Was the problem which prevented it from coming up during the sports sale eventually resolved so it can go on sale sometime in future when a EA/Sports sales come up?.

N.

So basically now that I'm buying games again, Amazon is going to take all my money. FINE.

Walking Dead game is awesome, great deal!

Tony, any chance of Amazon's version of King's Bounty Platinum (or even KB GOTY) being SecuROM-free? I know another user confirmed that SecuROM was on his GamersGate version of Platinum; I'm hoping that Amazon might have enough bargaining power with 1C to help them see the error of their ways.

A purchase hangs in the balance. No rush, though. Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals The next couple of weeks are going to be stupid awesome . Look forward to deals on Deus Ex ($6.99/$7.99 Standard/Augmented) Dungeon Siege III $5, some KILLER Double Fine deals, Serious Sam Franchise sales and our May event, which you guys are going to go nuts for. Cheers, Tony

I noticed that you mentioned Double Fine. Are you going to start selling their games? If so I would be interested in a good deal on Stacking.

Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals The next couple of weeks are going to be stupid awesome . Look forward to deals on Deus Ex ($6.99/$7.99 Standard/Augmented) Dungeon Siege III $5, some KILLER Double Fine deals, Serious Sam Franchise sales and our May event, which you guys are going to go nuts for. Cheers, Tony

May event? There's no way you could top your January event .

Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals If we do get Torchlight II it would be Steam redeemable. I don't know how likely it is we'll be distributing Runic games in the next month though. We're working on it but I don't have even a rough timeline yet.

That's a surprise Torchlight 2 would be Steam redeemable, given the original Torhclight 1 if bought outside of Steam was NOT. It had other DRM.

Though, if you bought Torchlight 1 at Retail on Disc, it was DRM-FREE.

As for getting prequels when pre-ordering sequels, with MP3 that's why we're giving away so much other value towards R* games with the pre-order, rather than just a prequel offer. I'll work on getting this into the May event. Stay tuned. Cheers, Tony

About Max Payne 3 PC - that 35 GB HDD open space requirement is pretty crazy.

Originally Posted by Mac the Geek Tony, any chance of Amazon's version of King's Bounty Platinum (or even KB GOTY) being SecuROM-free? I know another user confirmed that SecuROM was on his GamersGate version of Platinum; I'm hoping that Amazon might have enough bargaining power with 1C to help them see the error of their ways. A purchase hangs in the balance. No rush, though. Thanks in advance!

I see Legend as DRM free, Armored Princess as SecuROM and Crossworlds as Starforce when I look at the Gamersgate listings so I am curious about this too. I really want to play all three but I'm not too excited to install SecuROM on my system and I have read really bad things concerning Starforce.

Does anyone here install games using Starforce? MysterD I saw you mention it and assume your answer is no? Anyone else?

SecureROM is generally not a factor for me unless it involves install limits, which Amazon side-steps with their unlimited policy. Some people report problems.

Starforce, on the other hand, I avoid like the plague.

Originally Posted by Palinn Does anyone here install games using Starforce? MysterD I saw you mention it and assume your answer is no? Anyone else?

I actually had the same question about Starforce (esp. since I tend to play games under Wine in Linux) so I searched the 1C forums. From the 1C rep on this thread:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...ight=starforce

"The Proactive DRM from Starforce doesn't install anything on your PC. It is used only for online activation. It won't do any harm to your computer."

In order words, it seems to be just used for serial key validation - it's not the "install crappy drivers and screw up your system" Starforce DRM. Still not ideal (see the comments about activations and deactivations) but not much worse than SecuROM.

Originally Posted by Palinn I see Legend as DRM free, Armored Princess as SecuROM and Crossworlds as Starforce when I look at the Gamersgate listings so I am curious about this too. I really want to play all three but I'm not too excited to install SecuROM on my system and I have read really bad things concerning Starforce. Does anyone here install games using Starforce? MysterD I saw you mention it and assume your answer is no? Anyone else?

I have used StarForce, back when it was used for disc-check DRM. StarForce would install drivers specific to an OS - so, if you had an OS it was not supported on, don't expect the game to boot.
SF used to measure the disc to see if it's legit and in the drive; speed up and slow-down your disc-drive (which could ruin your disc drive and/or cause your CD to shatter into pieces; open-up security issues on older OS's; and even some had their OS rendered useless [to the point they had to reinstall Windows].

If it uses StarForce disc-check DRM - if the DRM-disc check has not been removed, I ain't even gonna look at it.

I've personally never had many issues w/ StarForce...knock on wood. I just don't like the way it operates, more so than anything.

I've never have had a game use StarForce for Internet DRM...I hope it's better than their disc-check DRM...

Originally Posted by seamoss I actually had the same question about Starforce (esp. since I tend to play games under Wine in Linux) so I searched the 1C forums. From the 1C rep on this thread: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...ight=starforce

Thanks for that link! The posters over there asked pretty much all of the questions I might have and the rep supplied answers so I am good to go. For some reason I never think to go directly to the publisher's site forgetting that they probably all have their own forums.

StarForce disc checking was definitely the worst. I pretty much stopped buying retail boxed PC games after the issues I had with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory back in 2005. I was so psyched to get that game and I ended up not even finishing it because StarForce was causing BSODs, DVD and hard drive slowdown and general sluggishness in Windows. It was real nasty back then and wouldn't even remove itself if you uninstalled the game. Had to do a complete format to get rid of it. They later made an uninstaller for it but still I would never recommending installing that garbage on your system.

So does King's Bounty Platinum use Starforce DRM? It sounds like that's a disc check DRM, so how does that work when it's digital?

Originally Posted by Idiotekque So does King's Bounty Platinum use Starforce DRM? It sounds like that's a disc check DRM, so how does that work when it's digital?

No clue w/ KB: Platinum from Amazon DVG uses.
I got all my KB games from Steam. long ago - which uses Steam DRM.

But, since I've used A LOT of different DRM's [Securom, SafeDisc, Tages, etc] and styles [Internet, disc], let me try an explain this...

Usually if there's NO Disc involved here - meaning, you bought the game digitally for download - it'll likely use Internet DRM scheme of some kind.

Usually, Internet-style DRM's have required online activation and/or install limits...hopefully w/ revokes, if there's install limits of some kind.
Steam is a little different - and you bind the game to your account and only that account can run said game.

I have no clue if the newer StarForce Internet DRM installs drivers or does any funky stuff like the old SF disc-check ones used to do.

Originally Posted by smurfinaus Hey Tony, So whats the deal with Madden '08? Was the problem which prevented it from coming up during the sports sale eventually resolved so it can go on sale sometime in future when a EA/Sports sales come up?. N.

I've got my guy recreating the page...for the third time...I have no idea why our system is throwing up on this one.

Originally Posted by Mac the Geek Tony, any chance of Amazon's version of King's Bounty Platinum (or even KB GOTY) being SecuROM-free? I know another user confirmed that SecuROM was on his GamersGate version of Platinum; I'm hoping that Amazon might have enough bargaining power with 1C to help them see the error of their ways. A purchase hangs in the balance. No rush, though. Thanks in advance!

I've reached out to 1C to ask this question. Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Rerujnoc I noticed that you mentioned Double Fine. Are you going to start selling their games? If so I would be interested in a good deal on Stacking.

We are going to start selling their games, they will be the Deal of the Week after Deus Ex next week .

C'mon Tony. What can you tell us about the May event? I gotta have an idea if I should be setting aside something extra for Amazon. I just ordered a water filter from you guys for my fridge! Don't hold out!

Originally Posted by The Nephilim C'mon Tony. What can you tell us about the May event? I gotta have an idea if I should be setting aside something extra for Amazon. I just ordered a water filter from you guys for my fridge! Don't hold out!

lol... we get all our water filters through amazon too.. cheaper there.