Hardline PC locks you out if you change hardware too often.

I'm not a big fan of starting my own posts, but I haven't seen this yet on the forums yet, so I figured I may as well post it.

As the title says, Battlefield: Hardline will prevent you from playing for twenty four hours if it catches you changing computer hardware more than five times. People testing out how the game performs on different hardware set ups quickly ran into this issue. A notice comes up saying the game has been played on too many computers, but you can lose your oh so lovely privileged of playing what many people already feel is not a great value from just swapping out too many computer parts. I don't know what parts trigger the warning, but it is clear that it is done at least by changing graphics cards and CPUs. Who knows if putting in more RAM or adding a DVD drive will lock you out.

This DRM is not just annoying on that part, but it is also pretty sleazy with how much information it tracks about your Personal Computer. Heck does EA also know what kind of porn I'm into? This definitely feels too invasive for me. As if I need any other reason to pass up this game.

EA also neglected to inform the paying customers of this as well. Which is nice. Their response to this discovery has been more or less "deal with it".

Links for the link god.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ea-infects-battlefield-hardline-with-new-ghastly-drm.html

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/140227-Battlefield-Hardline-Origin-DRM-Will-Lock-You-Out-For-Upgrading-Too-Many-Times

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/electronic-arts-battlefield-hardline-drm,28833.html

This will probably affect very few people but I can't help but wonder : Why?

I mean... the game is already tied to your Origin account, why bother with checking hardware? I guess it's to stop people from sharing Origin accounts but this is a bit much.