Gears of War PC certificate expires, breaks game

by Richard Mitchell on Jan 29th 2009 3:54PM

It looks like whoever pushes the button that renews the Gears of War PC certificate -- perhaps the relative of the guy that pushes the Zune button -- fell asleep at the switch. As of January 28, 2009, the certificate for Gears of War on the PC has expired, rendering it unplayable for any user with a later system date. The Gears of War forums are ablaze with reports of broken games, though many are reporting that simply changing the system clock to an earlier date will allow the game to run. It's not a permanent fix, obviously, but it should get the job done in the meantime.

According to Epic forum moderator joeGraf, Epic is aware of the situation and is "working with Microsoft to get it resolved."

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Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war, gears-of-war-pc, mgs, microsoft-game-studios

Reader Comments (56)

Damn, Marcus has got some nasty teeth.

Joystiq missed a perfect pun. Lost has returned to our tvs, and it involved pressing a button once every set interval at one stage...

Epic finally do something to stop a reasonable amount of players from touching a truly atrocious game, ever again and people complain? This is like Epic's version of charity work. And people say DRM is useless.

The PC version was how Gear was ment to be played!

Wow, way to reward your customers Microsoft. Guess who isn't having this problem I'm sure? People that pirated the game.

Man, companies are making such a great case for buying the games instead of stealing them.

First having open tray error on one 360 and RROD on another, I gave up 360 gaming and gone back to PC. Now this!

Wow, Micro$oft, you suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

Now I'm going back to see if my old ps1 will answer the door on me.....

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