Ea origin locking out pc players for too many hardware configurations

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PC gamers who have altered their machine over five times within a 24 hour period might get locked out of Electronic Arts' online service, Origin.

This DRM safeguard was first discovered when a user who was testing out a number of different graphics cards for Battlefield Hardline was locked out of Origin and greeted with the message: "Too many computers have accessed this account's version of Battlefield Hardline Digital Deluxe recently. Please try again later."

We reached out to EA regarding this matter and the publisher provided the following comment: "Origin authentication allows players to install a game on up to five different PCs every 24 hours. Players looking to benchmark more than five hardware configurations in one 24 hour period can contact our Customer Support team who can help."

Battlefield Hardline, the latest major title to use EA's online game service, was released earlier this month. For more on this cops vs. criminals first-person shooter

Source: IGN
 
Sounds about right... Its the kind of protection I can see why they have implemented, but would almost never inconvenience the average gamer...
 
Practically speaking how often do you change your pc hardware. I think it's a clever control to catch licence abusers.
 
Well i have actually done that and that problem didnt befall me and i went through about 8 testing versions for hardware.
 
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