erhm or the copy protection is encrypted/hidden so that it wont be easy to dismantle?
As i understand it its a DRM for DRMs. O.o
[Edited by DM242, 11/22/2014 4:54:40 PM]
Be prepared if it proves good in the space of 6 months with no warez releases of titles, you can bet your bottom dollar all publishers will start using it.
Not necessarily - StarForce was very similar in many ways to the current Denuvo system (in terms of successfulness when it comes to preventing warez releases, and, ironically, controversiality and claims of problems with hardware and software on end-user systems), and yet we're not seeing a lot of games using that today.
There are other forces at play in a corporate-controlled environment, but the successfulness in preventing warez releases of products is a major factor, no doubt.
[Edited by PeTTs0n, 11/23/2014 5:24:57 PM]
Three games use this DRM/ATP.
1. Fifa 15,
2. Lords of the Fallen,
3. Dragon Age Inquisition.
To my knowledge none of the first two are on the priate market for PC. Which does note that it certainly is a DRM/ATP to be recond with from the crackers side of view. So I expect many other games to use this. But I have to say I do not see this DRM/ATP causing Damage to HD or SSDs. I see all this bumph as hatred basicly.
Yup, I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough in my post - I certainly do not believe that this (or most other) DRM(s) pose any threat to any PC hardware, per se.
I was merely comparing it to the "classic" StarForce, that had strong success in preventing pirate releases of products that used various iterations of it. But there was controversy surrounding it, how it affected hardware, and even stories about ruined PCs (true or not, there was a lot of negativity surrounding it - for what reason, truly... well that, can be debated), and the commercial breakthrough simply wasn't there. (For the negative publicity, or other reasons? It's not as black and white as some make it out to be, there are other factors important in a corporate, competitive, environment.)
DRMs will continue to evolve, as will methods of bypassing them (and not just for pirating reasons, even if that is the main reason), which means I doubt this DRM system is the be-all, end-all that some make it out to be.
If it makes you feel better about your build, Samsung's SSDs are starting to get a reputation for longevity surviving petabytes of data being written to it.
Samsung has made gigantic strides in the last 18 months with the 830-850 lines. Excellent longevity, great read/write speeds (after a firmware fix), and awesome power efficiency.
If they offered the same amount of hardware failsafes against data loss that Crucial's non-enterprise lines do I'd jump to an 850 Pro in a heartbeat.