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GTA IV – Ruined by DRM
When Steam had his amazing holiday-sale off, i bought GTA IV for about $7 and I was happy I got a game that cheap. But quite just a few moments later I realized why I was boycotting this game in the earlier days: It is “copy protected” by SecuRom and you have to register this game to “Rockstar Social Club” (RSC) and “Games for Windows – Live” (GWL) so the torture began.
I started the game for the very first time and that RSC-Window popped up, nagging me to register. So did I. I logged in to my account on RSC and started the game. Everything seemed to work but then the game simply kept hanging at “Changing Language” all the time. It nearly made me rage. After about 10 restarts of the game, I googled that specific error and found out, that I have to press POS1 on my keyboard (it never told me to do that within these 10 starts) to make the GWL-popup appearing. So one more freaking service I have to register to before I can play. So I turned off GTA IV, went to the RSC-Website and logged in there. There was an option I remembered seeing before which was about “linking Rockstar Social Club to Games for Windows”. I pressed this and got referred to a website which allowed me to register. I did and activated all. Then I hoped being able to login but I wasn’t! This dumbshit RSC referred me to “Windows Live” which is not “Games for Windows – Live” – What the hell.
Anyway, after I figured that out, I wasted more than one hour making that game run. And that just because of motherfucking DRM. Seriously. I play a game which is already protected by Steam but now also needs SecurRom installed (why? I have no disc I could copy) and being registered to “Rockstar Social Club” (why? That game is already registered exclusively to my steam account) and “Games for Windows – Live” (same why question as for RSC).
This is the kind of shit, why other people actually pirated games: To get rid of these nagging shit. (The game itself is fun of course!)
I had EXACT the same! Its still moaning me about that I rlly shud get a Windows Live gamer Tag,, wich cant be done from a PC.
I went through all that trouble with the DVD version, and it still doesn’t work because when I start the game all of the models for the world are missing, so I can’t even play the game.
DVD version works great for me and I only registered at Games for Windows Live and rockstar games social club. The linking was one button and done
@Mastermind
No, you can register from a PC.
and btw Games for Windows is a part of Windows Live so you have to register there too.
I also bought it for 7 euro’s. But for me it went good.
Took a while to link and register all the stuff.
My concern is about all the unecessary DRM on GTA IV. Steam already provides copy-protection on a userfriendly level, which is cool.
The other thing is, it is totally stupid to make the game need you to register at two additional platforms but not telling you anywhere, that you have to (in order to play it).
I agree, and @ A.I. I ment that it still asks me to verify that i have an xbox game when I want to get rid of the stupid messgae: You don’t have a gamer tag yet!
Yeah, it sucks badly.
Anyways aVoN, lets play online together sometime?