Epic’s forums are being flooded by complaints from angry gamers who rightfully blame the developers for ruining their experience. There is unclear at the moment why on earth did Epic decide to do such a stupid thing and limit the play time to the 28th January, but at least they’re doing their best to fix the problem, as a forum mod said: “We have been notified of the issue and are working with Microsoft to get it resolved”
However, this frustrating expired certificate error has turned quite some PC owners against Epic. User drowningsmoke wrote: “I had this problem this evening, I had to change the date and time (from PM to AM) and I am able to get in just fine. I also changed it back to the current date and time and it didn’t work. Change it baack to yesterday AM and it works fine… EPIC games won’t be on my list anytime soon….”
But we can say that now publishers have yet another reason to think twice when “DRM” comes to their mind. Until then, have in mind that the only way to fix the expired certificate error for Gears of War is to change your system’s date: anything before January 28 works!