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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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[Silent_Gunner]

FR tho...

 

[Ericzander]

It's laughable, really. The purpose of requiring you to always be online is to prevent piracy... So the only way to play it on PC without being connected to the internet is by pirating it.

Remember kids, the only people who see the FBI warning at the beginning of every VHS tape are those who actually bought the movie.

 

[the_randomizer]

It's stupid, and while I have a stable internet connection, always online DRM is bullshit.

 

[jt_1258]

imagine gaming on a laptop on the go

 

[Kioku]

Oh FFS, Activision. Why aren't we past this yet?

 

[Silent_Gunner]

imagine gaming on a laptop on the go

The biggest problem with MK11 on Switch IMO.

 

[the_randomizer]

Would be a shame if I got the DRM bypass crack

 

[SkittleDash]

It's reasons like this that actually gives crackers purpose. Times like these, they are heroes.

 

[Tweaker_Modding]

so they never learned from the sonic mania stuff that happened a while back

 

[Xzi]

Empress: "does it really though?"

People who actually buy the game are the only ones getting shafted right now.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Battle dot FUCKING net.

Get dat shit outta 'ere.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Glad Codex fixed it for us, always online is a terrible kind of DRM and should be illegal as a type of planned obsolescence.

 

[seany1990]

These types of DRM (Denuvo too) wouldn't be as bad if devs removed it when it's cracked. Which in Crash 4's case would have been the day after release

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Lol, was gonna comment about it being cracked already, but it already was mentioned in the article, so...
Uh... Just go pirate the game and have fun I guess.

 

[Deleted User]

LOL cracked in 1 day so people who legit buy the game have to be online. Good job.

 

[Jayro]

Well that's gonna need to be patched out...

 

[Armadillo]

Poor Crash, sent out to die. Battle net only + online only .

 

[CMDreamer]

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.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Why do publishers even bother with exclusivity and DRM, when time after time after time it's been shown to be nonfunctional and disadvantageous?

Morons never learn.

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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.

"Franshitse"? Nice one, I approve.