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Re: lost revinew The last video game I brought prior to this one was DEFCON, designed and published by a small outfit that can ill afford losses to piracy. They designed the game without any obnoxious DRM and certainly didn't cripple it to the point that you need a constant internet connection to play by yourself against the AI.
Let's compare EA to another large corporation that deals with losses on a daily basis: Wal-Mart. They don't ignore loss prevention, in fact they invest considerable sums into it. What they don't do is take it to an extreme that utterly ruins the shopping experience for the 99.9% of their customers that aren't criminals.
Besides, this isn't just DRM. The "game" is essentially little more than a dumb terminal, with everything happening on the server. It's basically the card catalog terminal from your library in 1993. It was a stupid design decision, maintaining the servers on an going basis will cost EA money, so in the long term they'll either shut them down or start charging for a game you've already paid for. Either way they alienate all their users. Perhaps they'll release a patch but I doubt it, the whole game was built from the ground up as a dumb terminal. |
