Battlefront.com DRM

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Wow.  It never ends.  I just read through Zonsos posts and I don't believe 20% or less have anything to do with Dorosh's posts at all.  Let alone twisting his words.

Dorosh has less than 100 posts and is already spewing his paranoia regarding other wargamers.  It has been on the increase for years now.  His sales on Lulu, have been on the decrease.  Perhaps there is some correlation coefficient to that?

[Nefaro]

Do we now have forum "sock puppets" now joining the fray?

Looks like the flame wars can officially commence now.

[mirth]

Wow.  It never ends.  I just read through Zonsos posts and I don't believe 20% or less have anything to do with Dorosh's posts at all.  Let alone twisting his words.

Dorosh has less than 100 posts and is already spewing his paranoia regarding other wargamers.  It has been on the increase for years now.  His sales on Lulu, have been on the decrease.  Perhaps there is some correlation coefficient to that?

You have two posts so far, which have been about Dorosh's posts. Stalk much?

[Gusington]

I love carousels. And turtles. And bewbs.

I don't like personal attacks.

One more, from anyone, and the thread will have to be locked until...hey you know what? There have been too many personal attacks already. So I'm going to lock this for a few days so everyone can cool down.

[Gusington]

Thread unlocked. Let's keep the discussion civil and on track.

[magnus]

 I try to stay out of the DRM threads but this relates to the original poster's question.

I went to play Strategic Command WWI bundle with the add on Breakthrough.

I was unable to start Breakthrough but can play the original SCWWI.

Just to see, I tried to play Combat Mission Battles of Normandy and it also wouldn't start.

I put in a ticket this Saturday at 4:18PM.

I received their gsclean for both days on Sunday. This is used to wipe clean your activation and to try to start over.

It did not work on the games. I was finally able to start and activate CBNM last night, Tuesday.

I still cannot get the Breakthrough part of SCWWI to activate.

I will give them the weekend but I don't think it should take three work days + to reset an activation.

I have no idea of what caused this. It is the same computer inside that it was. The only thing that I have done is add a USB HD to it.

I don't think adding a HD should cause the DRM to shutdown the game.

[Asid]

I try to stay out of the DRM threads but this relates to the original poster's question.

Thank you for posting.

[Elvis]

I contacted BF Support, and I got my activations reset that same working day, and was playing later on that same day. Excellent support service as far as I am concerned. Maybe I was lucky, maybe not?

Thank you, Boggit and the others who have made similar comments. I've been on the desk since last fall and there are times I obsess about it. If I'm near a computer I have it open and check it constantly. Heck, I was out of town Monday and eating lunch responding to tickets with my phone (ain't technology great). A lot of why I am like this is because I know what it must be like on the other end of the line, so to speak.

It has been nice to browse through this thread and, even through people have concerns about how good/bad/necessary/unnecessary the DRM is, everyone has said nice things about the job we do on the desk.

Thank you.

[magnus]

You are welcome.

I should have posted that I enjoy the  games tremendously and will no doubt also buy Red Thunder and the Italy ones.

Strategic Command WWI is the best WWI game to me. Especially since all of the additions with the Breakthrough add on.

I believe I had to deal with Battlefront support once before and I was satisfied completely that day or the next. That is probably why I am upset over the last few days. A bad day of work hasn't helped my disposition.

Elvis, if you are still in the building. I keep adding comments to my support ticket but I am not sure where I stand with SCWWI Breakthrough. I was told that my serial for it had to be sent to be looked at on Monday.

I am sorry about airing this here but it is very perplexing to me why I can run the standard SCWWI but not the Breakthrough on the same serial that came when I bought the bundle.

Thank you

[panzerde]

I have no idea of what caused this. It is the same computer inside that it was. The only thing that I have done is add a USB HD to it.

I don't think adding a HD should cause the DRM to shutdown the game.

I prefer to stay as far away from these threads as possible, but someone mentioned bewbs and I was tricked into reading.

Now that I'm in here I just wanted to observe that the only thing that has triggered the Battlefront DRM for me is exactly this, adding a USB hard drive. Battlefront supplied me with the gsclean utility which fixed the issue.

In doing some research it seems that some types of DRM build a system profile based on what hardware is attached to the system to create a unique fingerprint. Adding a USB HD is apparently something that alters this fingerprint. I don't know that the Battlefront DRM uses this system, but whatever they use does seem to trigger based on the changed state of USB drives that were added after activation or were there at activation but were removed. Sometimes just putting things back the way they were can cause it all to work again.

[Elvis]

You are welcome.

I should have posted that I enjoy the  games tremendously and will no doubt also buy Red Thunder and the Italy ones.

Strategic Command WWI is the best WWI game to me. Especially since all of the additions with the Breakthrough add on.

I believe I had to deal with Battlefront support once before and I was satisfied completely that day or the next. That is probably why I am upset over the last few days. A bad day of work hasn't helped my disposition.

Elvis, if you are still in the building. I keep adding comments to my support ticket but I am not sure where I stand with SCWWI Breakthrough. I was told that my serial for it had to be sent to be looked at on Monday.

I am sorry about airing this here but it is very perplexing to me why I can run the standard SCWWI but not the Breakthrough on the same serial that came when I bought the bundle.

Thank you

I was probably typing my post while you were typing yours, so it wasn't related to yours.

That said, gsclean should have taken care of Breakthrough. I sent it "upstairs" and there are times that doing that can add a day or two.

I am familiar with your ticket because I thought it was kinda cool (not that you were having a problem) what the situation was at your home. 

[RyanE]

As a follow up...I bought a new laptop last week.  Was able to install all my CM games eventually.  Obviously used up some activations.  But it is an AMD CPU and I used AMD overdrive to adjust some power and core parking settings.  As soon as I changed the speed on the CPU, I lost some of my CM2 module activations.  I changed the speed back and my activations all came back except Gustav.  I played around with it and every time I adjusted my CPU speed, my activations went away.  If I reset it, the activations came back.  I never did get Gustav to come back.  I had to submit a ticket and use gsclean.  All happened in a 48 hour period.  Help desk was very responsive, but the activation game gets old.

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I contacted BF Support, and I got my activations reset that same working day, and was playing later on that same day. Excellent support service as far as I am concerned. Maybe I was lucky, maybe not?

Thank you, Boggit and the others who have made similar comments. I've been on the desk since last fall and there are times I obsess about it. If I'm near a computer I have it open and check it constantly. Heck, I was out of town Monday and eating lunch responding to tickets with my phone (ain't technology great). A lot of why I am like this is because I know what it must be like on the other end of the line, so to speak.

It has been nice to browse through this thread and, even through people have concerns about how good/bad/necessary/unnecessary the DRM is, everyone has said nice things about the job we do on the desk.

Thank you.

I was told here that you were just a "Hangaround"?  Congrats on being a "Fully patched in member".

[MikeGER]

I contacted BF Support, and I got my activations reset that same working day, and was playing later on that same day. Excellent support service as far as I am concerned. Maybe I was lucky, maybe not?

Thank you, Boggit and the others who have made similar comments. I've been on the desk since last fall and there are times I obsess about it. If I'm near a computer I have it open and check it constantly. Heck, I was out of town Monday and eating lunch responding to tickets with my phone (ain't technology great). A lot of why I am like this is because I know what it must be like on the other end of the line, so to speak.

It has been nice to browse through this thread and, even through people have concerns about how good/bad/necessary/unnecessary the DRM is, everyone has said nice things about the job we do on the desk.

Thank you.

I was told here that you were just a "Hangaround"?  Congrats on being a "Fully patched in member".

Ahh ... a Sons of Battlefront Prospect  ;)   ...they drive Kettenkrad (Sd.Kfz. 2) instead of Harleys so  ;D

[magnus]

I should also add that I have ADD when dealing with gaming.

I will see something on TV or a book and get an urge to play a game I haven't touched in 6 months to a year.

So my view of the DRM issue might be skewed.

I am one of the few people it seems, who have had no problem with that other DRM Storm Eagle studios.