So currently I am working on a graphics performance review for Battlefield Hardline, and guess what ? Do you guys remember the DRM introduced in Ubisofts Anno 2070 ? Well, EA just did pretty much the same thing. I am so irritated right now.
So I started working on a performance review. And after a graphics card or eight I think it was, EA will now lock your account with the following message:
Here's what EAs DRM is doing, they don't just verify the number of PCs you work on slash use, nope .. they dare to monitor hardware changes now, which I am sure is a privacy breach on many levels. 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.
What a bunch of rubbish ....
If this is the future for EA titles then you guys can forget about VGA performance reviews as EA is rendering that pretty much impossible now. I've now been waiting for like 3 or 4 hours and we are still locked out of the game. The only way to solve this would be purchasing another key and setup a secondary account. This means that if we'd like to make a VGA performance review on Battelfield Hardline with a card or 20 we'd need to purchase the game three times.
EA - guys we understand your piracy and cheating/hacking concerns, but STOP pissing off your user-base with this STUPID DRM non-sense. Christ almighty, at what point will the industry realize they are killing the PC game market themselves ?
The vast majority of PC gamers don't even pirate good games now days, let alone shitty ones.
Agreed, there's really no point considering how quickly the cost of these games drops. It's posturing, nothing more. I wasn't planning on picking this up at full price, but I guess I won't be picking it up on sale either.
Agreed, there's really no point considering how quickly the cost of these games drops. It's posturing, nothing more. I wasn't planning on picking this up at full price, but I guess I won't be picking it up on sale either.
It's amazing how quickly these guys go full retard over a game that's getting a mediocre reception as it is.
I'm wondering if they're using harsh DRM as a marketing ploy.
Giants like EA and Ubi only understand one language, and that is Money.
Peasants are the least informed gamers in the game-o-sphere. By design the console infrastructure is meant to encourage easy plug and play gaming with little tinkering and thinking. The day peasants stop pre-ordering their 120$ games that run at 960p in 2015 is the day EA will take notice and say "we either need more lube or start rethinking strategy."
It is EXACTLY shit like this that made me more infuriated than I should have been when AngryJoe got that herpes inducing pet carrying case of a computer. With 2 millions viewers he has a spotlight to educate and inform the peasants and those on the road to Ascension. All the sinners of the industry who charge ridiculous prices for ridiculous products need to be put on the spot and roasted until they look like BBQ chicken.
Unfortunately this DRM will also effect people who keep their games forever and occasionally fire up old ones. Any game now has a limited lifetime with this crap included.
Unfortunately this DRM will also effect people who keep their games forever and occasionally fire up old ones. Any game now has a limited lifetime with this crap included.
I remember making a post in this forum in 2007 when the TAGES DRM included in my boxed Mass Effect (original) PC game error'd out during installation saying I had met my activation limits. There wasn't even a 1-800 toll free number in the manual. I waited half an hour, spoke to some Egyptian in Cairo somewhere, who said he'd e-mail me a key for the game, which he never did.
I ended up cracking the game to play my legitimately acquired game.
This isn't new for EA. So, fuck them. Fuck them with all the pogo sticks. Then they can choke on the hate sausage.
Further proof that DRM treats customers like criminals and never impacts pirates. This is the sole purpose of DRM on all media really. Its to remind the customer who the IP owners think should be in charge.
Going to be honest if I were a congress critter id be tempted to at least put forward a bill that banned the usage of DRM on anything sold in the US. It would never pass of course because it would be pro consumer and the money men never want that.
EA has sucked for over 15 years. I was a alpha tester for earth and beyond (guess what ea your 10 year bs nda has expired so stuff it hehe) EA planned on kill earth and beyond back when the game was in alpha. They wanted a 3 year retail run with it and that was what they got. EA scraped tons of ready for release content for earth and beyond that could have gave the game a decades long run. Hell the game is still up and running today out side of EAs control and has been damn near sense shut down in 2003 if i recall so 10 to 10 years after EA killed it it is still going strong (stronger honestly).
EA is a crap company that treats every one from alpha to beta testers to end users to their developers like crap.
Westwood on the other hand treated their testers and players with allot of respect why they ever let EA take them over in a bale out i do not know. With EA the hits just keep coming and not the good sort....
This is OT but I'm going to use this thread to cry about EA's Origin customer support. Anyone used it lately? I had a fairly serious credit card security issue right after Christmas. They didn't have a telephone number I could call, or an e-mail address I could write to as of the first week of January. All of that had been removed because "people don't like waiting on hold" (their reasoning I was given over and over). The best they could do for me was I had to fill out an online form and they would call me whenever they got the chance.
So I requested a call. My first call came 9 hours after I requested it. I couldn't take the call. They closed the ticket and I had to re-request another call. The second time the call came 5 hours after I requested it at 5 p.m. I was driving home and missed it. They closed out the ticket and I had to re-request again. The next two times they never called but sent e-mails saying they were too busy and were sorry they couldn't get to me, if I still needed help please request another call.
I couldn't believe it. I know Valve is bad as well but I was literally left without a way to talk to customer service, period, for an issue I was pretty concerned about. I reached out to their EA Customer Support accounts on Twitter and Facebook. They got back to me on both mediums to say there was nothing they could do but sorry for the inconvenience. I gave up after that and never did get ahold of them.
It's not the developers that will make it awesome. It's the openness to the community that will make it awesome. The community will make some awesome shit from UT4.
EA has sucked for over 15 years. I was a alpha tester for earth and beyond (guess what ea your 10 year bs nda has expired so stuff it hehe) EA planned on kill earth and beyond back when the game was in alpha. They wanted a 3 year retail run with it and that was what they got. EA scraped tons of ready for release content for earth and beyond that could have gave the game a decades long run. Hell the game is still up and running today out side of EAs control and has been damn near sense shut down in 2003 if i recall so 10 to 10 years after EA killed it it is still going strong (stronger honestly).
EA is a crap company that treats every one from alpha to beta testers to end users to their developers like crap.
Westwood on the other hand treated their testers and players with allot of respect why they ever let EA take them over in a bale out i do not know. With EA the hits just keep coming and not the good sort....
Have you ever revisited Earth and Beyond after EA shut it down? A few people got together and recreated the server. EA gave them it's blessing for as long as they don't turn a profit. Typically they have about 100 or so active players. Also all the ships are unlocked [meaning the ships EA wouldn't add are playable].
But ya, EA needs to improve it's rep. I was a "smurf"[a player that volunteered to help other players. You were "blessed" with GM lite powers] in UO, back when EA controlled it. EA wanted us to put in 10-15 hours a week as volunteers. Our sole compensation was a free account.
It's an old school space MMO. Though unlike EVE, you actually have a toon that you can walk around star bases with. Though unlike STO [Star Trek Online], where you can have ground and space combat, E&B is space combat only. There are 3 races, each with 3 classes. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ea ··· 6_Beyond The wiki for the game.
The Net 7 [Which was the ingame news agency] portal. This is where you can sign up, also look at your toons, etc. »www.net-7.org/
Now realize the graphics and game play are locked into 2002 graphics. But the Game server does have a few of the former original game devs maintaining it and patching it. They can't do to much to it until the license for the game to EA expires. Which I think is sooner then later.
But it's kinda "fun" to drop in and play an older space game every so often.
Note: It's free to down load and play. The community is very supportive towards players as well.
Peasants are the least informed gamers in the game-o-sphere. By design the console infrastructure is meant to encourage easy plug and play gaming with little tinkering and thinking. The day peasants stop pre-ordering their 120$ games that run at 960p in 2015 is the day EA will take notice and say "we either need more lube or start rethinking strategy."
Excuse me? Least informed? I know you don't like EA's policy, but blanket statements like this are plain rude and insulting. Some of us prefer consoles for the simplicity at the end of the day, for the exclusives that will never hit the PC, for the fact that we started on consoles, or for the simple reason that our friends game on those.
Pre-ordering in a physical store is $5, not the full price (unless it's a CE, then it's $25), and you can cancel anytime, even the day of the release of the title. Try that with a pre-order on Steam (and yes, I know many of you don't pre-order because of that reason).
tl;dr: Don't take your frustration of EA's DRM out on people that like consoles, you elitist bastage.
Yeh bunch of great peeps running E&B they all work togather via net 7. As for free account yeh i had that as well. Mine was paid for by WW peeps though not ea. I had gotten a ship paint job banned back in the day because i killed a certin PR rep (who shall remain nameless) during a pvp night. I just hope that pr rep don't see this heheh.
I still love earth and beyond. Though i still have trouble getting well hooked. But i loved interacting with the developers loved playing with them and other players in the little java game dominate during server downtimes heh. Lots of fun. I burned out big time as i started testing officially with alpha 2 i was invited late in to alpha 1 but missed it by a few days just do to the timing of postal mail.
I alpha'd and beta'd Vendetta online from the state where Star Citizen is now up until release (circa 2002-2004 i think). Once they charged a fee I was out. But that game was tons of fun back in the day.
hey heres a question snake do you remember the screen shot taste the rainbow posted on the main forums back in beta
that was me using fold space rapidly. I also triggered a bug with shield inversion where i had a very long sheild inversion spike following me across the terran home sector lol.
IU remember our troubles with speed hackers etc crashing the server back in i think beta 1 or beta 2.
As for the graphics if i can ever get a workstation put together i might be able to help revap those. The game engine has allot more to give. I could probably get them to a point where they are at least as good as say a game from 07 maybe even 09. All depends on if the current crew has the import export tools needed for 3d stuido max. Depending on how much of the tool kit they have i could possibly go as far as entirely new zones.