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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time has finally come to PC, about five months after its initial release on consoles last October. Unfortunately, the PC version is exclusive to Battle.net and will require players to stay online at all times, despite the game not having any online functionality of any kind. As noted by Twitter user @RibShark and confirmed by the r/pcgaming subreddit, if a player attempts to boot the game without being able to log in to Battle.net, it will close and force you to try again. Of course, players aren't only prevented from logging in to Battle.net if their own connection is down; on the release day for Crash Bandicoot 4, Battle.net servers were down for two full hours, preventing players from playing the game they just purchased.

Always online requirements are often implemented as a form of DRM to prevent piracy. It doesn't appear to have helped in this case, however, as, according to Crackwatch.com, Crash Bandicoot 4 was cracked only a day after release. (We should also take this moment to remind readers that GBAtemp does not support or condone piracy, and any requests for or links to pirated content will be deleted and result in disciplinary action from the moderation team.)

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[Xzi]

Damn with every new generation of consoles, devs and publishers try to find the most stup!d way to ruin your gaming experience!

Another game I won't be buying, not that I'm a huge fan of the franshitse anyway.

AFAIK there is no always-online requirement for the console version. It's simply Activision doing Activision things.

 

[the_randomizer]

AFAIK there is no always-online requirement for the console version. It's simply Activision doing Activision things.

I hope they cave in and remove it

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks, this makes me want to pirate the game more-

 

[Xzi]

I hope they cave in and remove it

They might as well, at least three different repacks of it are up on all the torrent sites.

 

[slaphappygamer]

We have free games that require internet connection. The internet connection costs money. I mean, just look at Tetris switch thingy, it’s a free game that requires Nintendo online. So the game isn’t actually free and people are complaining of this?!

 

[the_randomizer]

They might as well, at least three different repacks of it are up on all the torrent sites.

Yeah, and uh, hmm. I won't get into details, but there was a file I tried to install, but it was hanging at the installation process at around what, 90% and wouldn't go any further. Wished
there was a crack one could just drag and drop without using a shady installer. Just my two cents. Won't get into details on where or how I found it. Just kind of a pain seeing as I did
buy the game, but I reaaaaaally don't want the DRM sooooo....

We have free games that require internet connection. The internet connection costs money. I mean, just look at Tetris switch thingy, it’s a free game that requires Nintendo online. So the game isn’t actually free and people are complaining of this?!

What are you, a DRM sycophant?

 

[Xzi]

We have free games that require internet connection. The internet connection costs money. I mean, just look at Tetris switch thingy, it’s a free game that requires Nintendo online. So the game isn’t actually free and people are complaining of this?!

This is a single-player platformer. For battle royale games like Tetris 99 there wouldn't be any content without other players to square off against, so people don't care if they're online-only.

 

[M7L7NK7]

I was keen to get faeria on switch but it needs online to play single player..

 

[Sterophonick]

Wow now the paying customers are the ones getting kicked around! When will they learn?

 

[ZeroFX]

Back to early 10's it seems... EA already tried that activision, too late for the party.

 

[the_randomizer]

And they wonder why people pirate games, because of dumbass investors who force devs to implement DRM into their games.

"But muh IP"

Yeah, screw them. If I bought the game, I can do whatever the hell I want with cracking it or not.

 

[KingVamp]

We have free games that require internet connection. The internet connection costs money. I mean, just look at Tetris switch thingy, it’s a free game that requires Nintendo online. So the game isn’t actually free and people are complaining of this?!

To be fair, pay online should have never been a thing.

 

[MarkDarkness]

Wow... it is 2021... and still this.

 

[Deleted User]

Only two things you can say, really.

1. Fuck
2. You

 

[the_randomizer]

You know what the best part is? Their refund policy is also BS, if you so much as play the game for < 10 minutes, you don't qualify for a refund. So yeah that's nice of them.

Greedy conceited pricks

 

[Deleted member 397813]

codex says otherwise lol

 

[haxan]

imagine gaming on a laptop on the go

I feel so targeted right now lol

 

[tabzer]

Well, gee. If the game comes broken when you buy it, you should probably find a better source!

 

[The Catboy]

PC MUSTER RACE! ;O;
In all seriousness, why? This kind of DRM has always been extremely unpopular and always walked back or cracked. It doesn’t prevent shit and it’s stupid as fuck.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

PC MUSTER RACE! ;O;
In all seriousness, why? This kind of DRM has always been extremely unpopular and always walked back or cracked. It doesn’t prevent shit and it’s stupid as fuck.

literally rdr2 took over a year to crack and it didn't have always online drm yet this game gates cracked in about a day lmao