For the owners of Dead Space 2 on Steam, Wemino released a tool that removes TAGES from this version. It's a discontinued DRM that limits the game to five PCs, exceeding it ends up locking you from playing it.
This tool gets rid of TAGES and allows you to play the Steam release without having to worry about activation limits.
Louis Rossmann fights for buyers' rights and recently spoke out against Electronic Arts over problems with Dead Space 2.
The PC version of the game came out in 2011 and uses special copy protection called TAGES SolidShield. This system only lets you start the game on five computers, after which you can get locked out.
Simple things like reinstalling Windows, upgrading your graphics card, or installing the game on a new device often use up all five starts. When that happens, you cannot play the single-player game anymore even if you paid for it.
EA stopped providing tools to fix activations years ago and no longer supports the game. But they still sell it on Steam for about $20 with no warning about the problem.
In a new video, Rossmann shared a buyer’s bad experience. He says cases like this make some people think piracy is fair because if a company sells a game but stops helping you play it, you do not truly own what you bought.
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