Battlefield: Hardline features new DRM

According to the gaming website Guru3D Battlefield: Hardline has been released with a new sort of DRM. During a performance review on the PC version of the game, they found that changing the hardware caused Origin to lock it down. Here's what they found out:

"EA don't just verify the number of PCs you work on/use, they dare to monitor hardware changes inside your PC now[...]. So once we insert new hardware (CPU / mobo or graphics cards) the hardware id # hash changes and if that happens a couple of times they are rendering your activation invalid. From what we now have learned, you get to have 5 hardware changes per license. Use them up and access to the game will be blocked for 24 hours per activation."

We don't know if this is to be changed be EA, but keep in mind that you might want to reconsider replacing hardware often if this becomes a trend.

Battlefield: Hardline was released March 19 to PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.