Based on what I've read and heard, from this being called a rootkit to this being a simple addon to prevent protection, it does quite a few things including hiding copies of itself and resulting in a rather unfriendly removal process. I myself bought the copy through Steam and besides the sudden 300 meg download after the game was set to go live. I had no problems.
I've gone through the process of removing SecurRom as you can find a few guides around and have in fact run into zero problems playing the game after this. Considering Steam already requires you to be online in most cases to play most games, yet having no CD I'm at a lost as to why this was needed. Even the demo contained this, I've heard to limit the playtime, but why such drastic measures for something like that I don't know.
Rootkit or simple protection, a backdoor service is still a problem. If the game refused to run without that said protection, I'd have asked for my money back on the spot. Just my two cents.
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Based on what I've read and heard, from this being called a rootkit to this being a simple addon to prevent protection, it does quite a few things including hiding copies of itself and resulting in a rather unfriendly removal process. I myself bought the copy through Steam and besides the sudden 300 meg download after the game was set to go live. I had no problems.
I've gone through the process of removing SecurRom as you can find a few guides around and have in fact run into zero problems playing the game after this. Considering Steam already requires you to be online in most cases to play most games, yet having no CD I'm at a lost as to why this was needed. Even the demo contained this, I've heard to limit the playtime, but why such drastic measures for something like that I don't know.
Rootkit or simple protection, a backdoor service is still a problem. If the game refused to run without that said protection, I'd have asked for my money back on the spot. Just my two cents.