My internet went down while playing an online game. I thought I'd distract myself by playing something offline - like F1 2017. Upon trying to launch it, it tells me that I need to perform a "first time" launch while online. Well... https://i.imgur.com/xOIm4HL.jpg

To keep this brief, I paid for a product, but can't use it when I want to. It's the basic DRM story. I was excited for F1 2018's release in a few days, but not if I'm being treated like a criminal. The actual criminals don't have this issue. No F1 for me anymore, no Codemasters for me anymore, unless they go on GOG.

EDIT: I actually just found out that this has Denuvo, which is indicated nowhere. The EULA doesn't even mention the name once. That's shady as hell. And since today marks the release of F1 2018, and the EULA for that looks pretty much identical, I assume that one has Denuvo and it's still not marked anywhere. Wow. Just wow.

My internet went down while playing an online game. I thought I'd distract myself by playing something offline - like F1 2017. Upon trying to launch it, it tells me that I need to perform a "first time" launch while online. Well... https://i.imgur.com/xOIm4HL.jpg To keep this brief, I paid for a product, but can't use it when I want to. It's the basic DRM story. I was excited for F1 2018's release in a few days, but not if I'm being treated like a criminal. The actual criminals don't have this issue. No F1 for me anymore, no Codemasters for me anymore, unless they go on GOG. EDIT: I actually just found out that this has Denuvo, which is indicated nowhere. The EULA doesn't even mention the name once. That's shady as hell. And since today marks the release of F1 2018, and the EULA for that looks pretty much identical, I assume that one has Denuvo and it's still not marked anywhere. Wow. Just wow.