Does Age of Empires have DRM? If so what?

[Rajivrocks Ltd.]

I think the title says it all :)

[Tempires]

Game has steamDRM like most games. You need to have Steam running or game doesn't launch.

[Rajivrocks Ltd.]

Originally posted by Tempires:

Game has steamDRM like most games. You need to have Steam running or game doesn't launch.

Ah okay, I'm glad :) Thanks!

[Gabriel Angelos]

it also contains the malicious Arxan DRM which they deliberately don't reveal...

[Rajivrocks Ltd.]

Oh :o

[There is no Spoon]

Originally posted by Gabriel Angelos:

it also contains the malicious Arxan DRM which they deliberately don't reveal...

Does Arxan require weekly reauthentication like Denuvo does? If so, I am immediately refunding this game. If it doesn't and you can keep this game offline for as long as you want then I don't mind it as much. Considering the internet in my area varies from bad to nonexistent, this is absolutely a deal breaker for me if reauthentication checks are a thing

[About47Pandas]

Pretty sure this has UWP-- Universal Windows Protection. At least it does on the Windows Store-- Not sure if that does or doesn't carry over to steam or not.

Originally posted by lotrofan15:

Originally posted by Gabriel Angelos:

it also contains the malicious Arxan DRM which they deliberately don't reveal...

Does Arxan require weekly reauthentication like Denuvo does? If so, I am immediately refunding this game. If it doesn't and you can keep this game offline for as long as you want then I don't mind it as much. Considering the internet in my area varies from bad to nonexistent, this is absolutely a deal breaker for me if reauthentication checks are a thing

-- IF You buy the game-- There is a moral grey area you could do. ONLY if you bought the game though.

[There is no Spoon]

-- IF You buy the game-- There is a moral grey area you could do. ONLY if you bought the game though. [/quote]

I dont get what you mean by this. I bought the game on Steam and only on Steam. The thing that pisses me off about DRM heavy games like Denuvo is that Denuvo requires you to be online at least once a week or so to play the game you paid for which I find absolutely horrible and anti consumer. As I said, my internet is ♥♥♥♥♥ and I play most of my games 99% offline with no internet access. But that is becoming a problem now with services like Denuvo. Im just wondering if Arxan does the same thing or if it is a one and done deal where you verify your purchase once and ONLY ONCE and will never be required to connect to the internet again unless you want a bricked game that you paid hard cash for.

[Rajivrocks Ltd.]

Originally posted by lotrofan15:

-- IF You buy the game-- There is a moral grey area you could do. ONLY if you bought the game though.

I dont get what you mean by this. I bought the game on Steam and only on Steam. The thing that pisses me off about DRM heavy games like Denuvo is that Denuvo requires you to be online at least once a week or so to play the game you paid for which I find absolutely horrible and anti consumer. As I said, my internet is ♥♥♥♥♥ and I play most of my games 99% offline with no internet access. But that is becoming a problem now with services like Denuvo. Im just wondering if Arxan does the same thing or if it is a one and done deal where you verify your purchase once and ONLY ONCE and will never be required to connect to the internet again unless you want a bricked game that you paid hard cash for.

They mean that if you bought it on steam and the game gets cracked you can just pirate it. Its okay because you already bought it so pirating is fine after the fact.