A couple of weeks ago I purchased Crysis Warhead. At that time I installed it, put in serial number, and played it for a little while. Since them I had a hardware failure and upgraded motherboard. Also had to reinstall windows Vista. I think overall I reinstalled Crysis Warhead twice in the process of rebuiliding my system and installing a new operating system. Last night when I reinstalled Crysis Warhead, the following popup screen appeared - " The game will not start! For security reasons, only a limited number of machines can ever be licensed by a single purchase. This limit has been reached. Please purchase another registration code, reinstall, and then try again". I tried emailing EA customer service but have not had a reply. The game is worthless and I just purchased it a couple of weeks ago - I wish I had never purchased the game at all. I knew nothing about the DRM limitation when I purchased it. Beware! You may find yourself in the same predicament as me if you purchase this product and make hardware changes.

dear god, this thread is going to be fun.

had the same problem with some DRM music I bought....

useless crap, wont ever buy anything with DRM again because I change hardware so often

What a shock!

Might I suggest a work around?

You don't have to download the whole game. Search for "Crysis Warhead crack" for crack only.

That's exactly why I did not bother buying Crysis Warhead.

Stupid DRM. I hope Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 doesn't have this level of DRM.

You could always file a class action...wait a sec, we already did that

Yes the DRM is stupid, but people shouldn't act like idiots either. If you had the game for two weeks take it back to the store you bought it from and tell them it doesn't work. At the very least you'll get a new working copy. But I have a suspicion this is just a troll post and we'll probably never hear back from the OP.

Probably right, but we really need to release our DRM frustrations (that sounds real wrong, now that i think about it...)

We'll be getting lots of these questions over the next few months, so sooner or later, someones going to need to explain what it is so we can point to a sticky thread.

Nope, they won't take it back. Many people have tried already. Retailers are aware of the DRM, and will just tell you to contact EA.

This is why I will never buy from EA again until they drop their greed lusting activation limits, so in the meantime, they can go get bent.

EA, what a great gaming company.

Well its Ubisoft. They normally are one of the better PC gaming companies along with VALVe and Blizzard. Also Far Cry 2 is going to be on Steam so that may be the best route to go.

Take a nail and put a nice scratch down the CD and tell them that's how it was when you opened it. You'll get a new copy.

I didn't want to buy it due to the DRM, but was able to get it at $19.99 and couldn't resist. I will say one of the cracks floating around the internet works beautifully. (But I've heard some don't work at all.) I can install and play it just fine without the online activation.

Now I'm a bit peeved. I bought this game the day it was released. Gameplay was great, and I rarely had any issues. Once in a while, it would request internet access to validate the license. I didn't think anything of it. However, last night I got on to play it, and it gave me the exact same message as the first poster. Note that I'm running a 2.4Ghz 2MB Dell XPS 410 with a GeForce 8600GT 512MB graphics card. I have made NO changes to my hardware since installation of this game, and now I can't play it. The first poster was spot on. I posted a concern on EA's website last night, and I'm curious to see if I'll get a response. If not, I'll be posting my concern on EVERY board I can find. Buy this game at your own risk, as you may not be able to play it for too long!