GameShield DRM

[skellington]

Just a word of warning for those that like to avoid rootkit activation based DRM, like most Rockstar games L.A. Noire uses GameShield along with their Rockstar Social Club account/launcher based DRM AND Steam.

[nulldata]

ITT: People who read the OP and blindly trust it while reading none of the replies to it or doing any of their own research

[ChunkyBitz]

Originally posted by Jack Thompson:

ITT: People who read the OP and blindly trust it while reading none of the replies to it or doing any of their own research

Absolutely.

[zhunGamerTTV (人^▽')～]

Well, they already have STEAM for a DRM service.
I'm not going to buy a game with additional ones.
I guess I'll just keep my money :D

[sausagesoldier]

All hail the necromancer! Still, ♥♥♥♥ rockstar.

[skellington]

Originally posted by Jack Thompson:

ITT: People who read the OP and blindly trust it while reading none of the replies to it or doing any of their own research

Given your username I'm sure you're just trolling, as well as any research should start at PC Gaming Wiki which clearly mentions all SKUs of the game on PC use GameShield IronWrap.

And from Wikipedia's definition of a rootkit: "A rootkit is a stealthy type of software, typically malicious, designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs from normal methods of detection and enable continued privileged access to a computer." The L.A. Noire installer requires admin priviledges to install and the GameShield software is installed as a hidden process monitors the OS memory. Even if it's not intended as malicious, it's a resource drain as well as a very exploitable attack vector.

[hackerx31337]

Chalk up another lost sale. I was going to grab this game and play it while playfire had rewards for it. But Extra DRM? No thanks. Excluding it from family sharing. NOPE. That is a very bad move there. NO WAY AM I BUYING MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE SAME GAME SO MULTIPLE PEOPLE CAN PLAY WITH THEIR OWN PROFILES IN THE SAME HOUSE!

It takes a special kind of demented mind to have a DRM system named "Social Club" that prevents the game from being used in a social manner but wants you to connect online to play by yourself.

[zhunGamerTTV (人^▽')～]

Originally posted by hackerx31337:

Excluding it from family sharing.

I was planning on not buying this game due to the DRM, but there wouldn't even be a point for me if it's not even shared through family sharing.

[Daassie]

I was interested in the game, until I saw it had GameShield. Launcher platforms I can just about deal with, but I have no interest in getting infested by another always-on rootkit DRM.

[Redrusty66]

ooops, no sale. too many games, too little time to deal with this kind of crap.

[ModestLunatic]

Originally posted by Redrusty66:

ooops, no sale. too many games, too little time to deal with this kind of crap.

Deal with what crap? the game is currently on sale several places, so I bought it. Installed, did offline social club and bam, I'm in game chasing down murderers. You all use steam, where you don't really own anything, what's the problem with this?

[Daassie]

Steam's a launcher platform and DRM wrapped into one, but it's not always on. This is DRM-on-DRM(-on-DRM, if you count Social Club) and apparently uses always-on components. You get no choice, this method is highly redundant, and it's like malware running on your system.

Not cool; there are many, many more games out there that don't pull ♥♥♥♥ moves like this. Feedback is important to improve things.

[sausagesoldier]

Originally posted by Citramonum:

Is that DRM always on in background even if you don't run the game and Steam?

Always on