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DO NOT BUY AND INSTALL CRYSIS WARHEAD!

posted 16 years ago by Gunnery
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Spyware and Malware alert!!

This game infects your computer with the SecuROM virus. Avoid at all costs. The SecuROM virus roots itself in your OS and stays hidden there even if the game is uninstalled. Removal of the virus is lengthy and risky and involves downloading third party programs and registry editing. This game looks fantastic but no game is worth a virus, not one.

I feel like such a idiot. I should of read all the reader reviews through Amazon before I went out and purchased Crysis Warhead. Even the sales clerk at the retail store where I bought the game from last Friday tried to warned me to not buy the game. I should of listened.

I bought the first game Crysis last year and I installed that game on my computer and it installed fine. I love playing that game. I thought since I bought the first Crysis game I would go out and buy the follow up game, Crysis Warhead. I just had to have this game. So I went out last Friday and bought Crysis Warhead and went home and tried to install the game onto my PC computer.

Big mistake. The game started to download onto my computer and all of sudden it stopped and it said "Error Message". The error message said first of all I needed to be connected to the internet to install the game. So I thought okay I would go ahead and do that. So I tried to download the game again with the internet connected to my computer. Okay so the game started to download and I got the same error message again. Only this time it said I need to register my game. I'm like wait a minute. I put in the registration code at the beginning of the game and now it's asking me for a registration code? So I had to take out the game and try to register it again. The game started to download and then I got another error message telling me that SecuROM does not recognize my registration code and will not let me finish downloading the game. Do you know after all that hassle I took the game out of my computer and it screwed up my computer. That SecuROM is like putting a virus into your computer. I am not kidding you.

I try to get back into the original Crysis game on my PC after all this and it screw up my computer so I can't get into the Crysis game. I ended up taking Crysis out of computer and now the computer won't let me reinstall Crysis back into my computer. Then on top of all this it, SecuROM screwed up my drives so that I can't watch any DVD movies on my PC. SecuROM get into your operating system in your computer and screws up everything and you can't take it out.

I contacted EA Games Customer Service Department and they told me just to keep reinstalling Crysis Warhead until it finally works. What kind of answer is that? I told them my PC is all screw up because of Crysis Warhead and the stupid SecuROM that came with it. They said I need to see things from a business point of view. They're trying to make money and keep people from stealing the game by putting in SecuROM. I told them in twenty years of playing PC games I have never had so much trouble installing a game except when it comes to any PC games through EA Games. That includes Spore which is a joke.

I will never buy another PC game made through EA Games. It just isn't worth all the time and trouble. Especially when it ends up messing up your PC and then you spend weeks trying to fix it. Don't pay any attention to Gaming Sites or Gaming Magazines who give these games good reviews. Game Publishers give a lot of money to these people to make sure they give good reviews on the games without mentioning all the other crap that is in the games. I remember earlier this year when a long time Game Reviewer for Gamespot got fired for giving a bad review to a game because the Game Publisher didn't like the low review the Game Reviewer had given one of their games. I personally don't work for in the gaming industry. I'm just an average guy who trying to help people so they don't get ripped off.

That SecuROM should only go to Third World Countries because that is really the only place where piracy takes place. This is not right to treat honest paying customers this way by EA Games. I buy most of my games for Xbox 360 since I don't have any problems with installation or running their games. Buying PC games really sucks now.

[–] Fork_Q 16 years ago

DRM like SecuROM don't belong anywhere, not in the first-world or third-world countries.

Now most DVDs released by Sony have more or less the same thing ('rootkit') written as an .ini file that does not require it to be executable. Get your own back on EA, download a virus-free copy from PirateBay!

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[–] Fork_Q 16 years ago

Could be wrong, but I really don't think that is a case of Crysis Warhead's DRM. Like the OP, I had trouble installing it (gave up and installed a pirated version which worked a treat), but once I got in it worked like a charm.

My guess of what happened to you was a bad case of memory leakage.

[–] shopping-24 16 years ago

I also read all the bad customer reviews about this game because of the SecuROM protection. Actually I bought this game a few days ago anyways, installed it and, sorry, but I have no problems with it at all :o

Seamless install without any error messages, no alerts by my anti virus program, no problems with the activation process, no use of too many windows resources while playing and no bad influence on other application on my computer.

Don't know what to say. (ok, I haven't tried to UNinstall it yet ..., but we will see...)

[–] nocopy-1 16 years ago

Crysis Warhead is indeed a really good game. I got it last week. Unfortunatly i have to say that the Anti-Piracy measures, game companies take now a days, are starting to go a little too far.

Im all behind the company on this matter. They need to protect their products, but not by any "price". It is unacceptable for me, and a lot of other peopple out there, that once you uninstall the game, SecuRom stays. FOR WHAT REASON?!

I remember, a while back, when Bioshock came out. With millions of copies sold, they had real trouble with the SecuRom and Authentification process of the game. On top of that, you were only allowed to install it a certain number of times, before you have to jump through holes with 2K Games and SecuRom for them to reset the install counter.

This and the fact that Sony treats their costumers like criminals resulted in me not buying the game.

But if it werent for the damned pirates, those companies wouldnt have to spent millions on copy protection, and hassle their costumers with them. Cause believe me when im telling you guys this, IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE! And the only sucker is gonna be the PAYING costumer, since pirates just circumvent the protection.

I, for my part, cant take the risk of any suspicous program, copy protection, rootkit or virus (Call it what you want) beeing installed on my system. Had to go as far as getting a second system, for my work, online shopping and banking.

In the end, Crysis Warhead is a superb game, you just have to get rid of securom once you are done playing. Or get a "gaming" PC apart of you regular desktop.

[–] Gandalf_is_cool 16 years ago

I installed it and had zero problems. Great game btw.

[–] col_wetback 16 years ago

The steam version of the game doesn't have any anti piracy features. But then again the pirated version of the game doesnt have them either.

[–] internets-1 16 years ago

I've never had a problem with anti-piracy software.

[–] eldad1337 16 years ago

i didnt even know it has DRM... lol, like i care. its not like my computer is gonna explode. BTW, EA will start patching their new game that have DRM with De-authorisation measures. so that you can really save your limited installs.

RA3 is also a realy good (and sevealy misunderstood) game. i had a lot of hesitation for getting it because i was afraid of this DRM whatever that thing does.

#cares...in the end, if its stable and the game is good, ill check out the demo and buy the game if i like and know that its gonna be good.

[–] wswraith9 16 years ago

Ugh, DRM problems are not all they're cracked up to be. I have many SecurROM enabled games and not one of them has caused me any troubles. I've been a hardcore PC gamer for years, and nothing has ever stopped me from playing the games I want to, with the framerates I want.

Quit whining and buy Crysis Warhead and enjoy the game the first Crysis should have been. :)

[–] halflife7 16 years ago

Funny thing u talk about third world countries, actually all the pirates are from first world countries.....
I never got a problem installing Crysis warhead.

[–] vgebilaguin 16 years ago

Hey, I'm from a Third World country, don't be like that! No one deserves malware-like DRM!

The irony really is, people who pirated the game don't get this kind of crap at all. DRM is really built to protect the interests of the company, not to please their customers. For me, Steam is DRM platform in the right direction (but not quite there yet).

[–] dasbanjo 15 years ago

Precisely. Any attempts at DRM will eventually fail against the crackers. Hence their overly executed safety measures might be a bad move strategically, since the only one their precious DRM actually hits is the paying customer. In turn this might lead to lower sales and more pirating: Har, har, har!

And now for the articulate part:
I hate EA. They need to *beep* themselves...