| The inherent contempt EA has for its consumers... Never fails to amaze me. One only needs to have bought BF2 and then tried to navigate EA's customer support maze to understand that contempt. It can only have been designed for one thing: to communicate to the consumer a simple message:
"We have your money. Now please, f*** right off. A patch will be along someday. Or not."
Getting an answer out of that system that substantively addresses a technical issue is slightly harder than the search for The Holy Grail.
And the stock gun settings in BF2 could not hit the broadside of a barn.  |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
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Dallas, TX | About the only thing that will make EA sit up (or wake
up) and take notice is if their stock tanks.
Here's hoping it happens.
What a boneheaded business decision putting such draconian
DRM into their games. Far from discouraging piracy, it
turns former legal users of their games into pirates as they
get sick of the onerous DRM and resort to downloading the
cracked version.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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 JRW2R.I.P. Mom, Brian, Ziggy, Max and Zen.Premium
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| said by Doctor Four:Far from discouraging piracy, it turns former legal users of their games into pirates as they get sick of the onerous DRM and resort to downloading the cracked version. DING!!!
Which is EXACTLY what I did to be able to play DOOM3!
I had a legal copy of the game and could NOT get it to run due to their DRM, had to resort to a "hack" to get it to run.
While I don't disagree that piracy may cut into their profits, I think the DRM is costing them even more.
Hence the reason I don't by PC games anymore. 
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
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North Babylon, NY | said by JRW2:said by Doctor Four:Far from discouraging piracy, it turns former legal users of their games into pirates as they get sick of the onerous DRM and resort to downloading the cracked version. DING!!! Which is EXACTLY what I did to be able to play DOOM3! I had a legal copy of the game and could NOT get it to run due to their DRM, had to resort to a "hack" to get it to run. Umm...Id typically removes the CD check in the first or second patch of their games. Even Quake4's CD check was removed in a patch. |
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Bloom County | reply to Doctor Four
said by Doctor Four:About the only thing that will make EA sit up (or wake up) and take notice is if their stock tanks. But it won't plunge - they will just do consoles that make a bunch of money and are far harder to crack and leave folks who prefer to game on their PC's out in the dark with their stock price unharmed.
More than likely - they want people to stop buying PC games because of the piracy issues and this is a step toward that. |
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