Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta details revealed; DRM explained

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Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta details revealed; DRM explained

Posted Jan 27th 2010 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Betas, FPS, Multiplayer

Tomorrow, Digital Illusions will begin the long awaited PC multiplayer beta test for their first person shooter Battlefield Bad Company 2. So it stands to reason that the developer wants to get all those players ready for its launch. Now the game's blog site has some details on the beta launch which should begin at noon Eastern time on Thursday.

The beta client itself will apparently be available on various mirror and torrent sites along with Steam. The client will also have SecuROM which DICE says is being used only "to make it difficult to hack the Closed Beta client to run the final game". The final game will also use SecuROM for a one-time authentication only; once that happens you can play the single player gae without needing to go online. EA will allow for the full game to be installed on up to 10 PCs. However the full version will also require an EA.com account to play online.

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Tags: battlefield-bad-company-2, battlefield-bad-company-2-beta, DICE, digital-illusions, ea, Electronic-Arts, securom

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

what? wait, really? Wasn't the Bad Company 2 team boasting about it was taking everything MW2 did wrong and do it right? This seems like it's almost a worse situation then MW2 now!Posted at 2:11PM on Jan 27th 2010 by Alex

Alex... if you would have taken the time to read a bit farther, the activation only needs to be done once, but it can be activated on up to ten PCs. Unless you have more than ten PCs in your house, then you shouldn't have any trouble.Posted at 3:47PM on Jan 27th 2010 by Erick

WELL ILL BE THE FIRST IN THE QUEUE THEN, TO DOWNLOAD ITPosted at 4:22PM on Jan 27th 2010 by F1FERRARI

I try and access the link provided and am getting 404 on it !? anyone else having the same problem ? is the site not up until tomorrow or something ?Posted at 7:04PM on Jan 27th 2010 by Tony

yooo, yeah in ireland here still gettin the 404 errror it must come on when usa gets it ?Posted at 10:59PM on Jan 27th 2010 by SPIKE

You can download the BattleField Bad Company 2 BETA here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RVAZ7CLQ

:)Posted at 1:43PM on Jan 28th 2010 by Nevzor