15th November 2004, 2:21 PM
It's a new level of the attempts to stop piracy. CD-Keys work well, until people get keys from keygens... you can restrict this if they go to multiplay, but in single... well this is just going farther with it. Of course the game will be cracked and pirated, but it makes it a little bit harder and makes people take a bit more effort to do it. It's inconvenient, especially if it only lets you install it on one computer (which would be a truly horrible decision for lots of legitimate reasons!), but I can see why they do it...