EA are a god awful company and treat their customers like garbage and rely on flashy spin and slick marketing to win over the dim-witted fanboys into another purchase and parroting their press releases.

… crikey. That’s news to me.

“If all PC gamers are pirates, then how come the #1 game worldwide, World of Warcraft, is not pirated and has managed to sell umpteen millions of copies? There is more than enough evidence, given proper business models, that the majority of PC gamers will pay for a game they wish to play.”

Primarily because subscription based games have a much greater barrier against piracy, in the sense that as an online game it checks you have a legitimate copy everytime you log into the server and can match log-ins up against CD keys…”

is it just me or do none of you know that there are hundreds of private world of warcraft servers out there(if not thousands)the game is being pirated as much as any other game out there i originally downloaded an played world of warcraft on a server called xaos wow, then relized that if i payed per month, the game actually worked properly with little to no lag! some people pirate games just to try them out, and then buy them because the game is good and deserves the cash, some games just dont deserve any money because they are rushed(need for speed pro street) glad i rented that game lmfao!

im just getting tired of EA all together! and is it just me or did anyone else notice in the retail creature creator for spore in the manual it states that before installing spore you must uninstall the creature creator or the game wont install ( meaning EA successfully scammed 10 extra bucks off of everybody who went out and bought the creature creator because they were not aware that this was not needed to play the game) the box is even misleading, im looking at it right now it clearly states SPORE STARTER KIT, hmmm starter kit-building block needed to play the entire game….WRONG!!! and worse yet i even emailed EA asking if this was needed for spore because i wasnt going to buy it if it was included in the full game when its released(which it is!) and guess what i got, an email back going on about something else and never answering my question maybe later ill dig up the response i got, to show how useless their support staff is! im just ticked because i preordered the galactic edition because its going to be one of the biggest games of the year(it deserves it) but now instead of paying 80 bucks i just payed 90 bucks and got a ten dollar dvd and case that are utterly useless! im not worried bout the drm that will be fixed by some kid in korea or china who first cracks the drm and uploads it to the world(props to whoever that is) im just sick of EA trying to swindle us all out of every cent they can get their sticky little fingers on, microtransactions, charging for cheatcodes or other content that can easily be unlocked by playing through the game, and now only allowing a game to be installed only 3 times(if say it was 10 or 20 id say ok but 3 FUCK YOU EA!)

Even worse is that they don’t tell people propperly before buying the game. I bought mass effect not knowing that i effectively RENTED 3 copies. for the same price that i could have bought a game that installed whenever i wanted to without a nanny pushing me around. Sorry but i’d rather go for piracy who get a better end product. Piracy may be downright wrong and evil but the way EA is treating their customers defies description compaired to piracy..

If you bought a GPS system that wouldnt connect to it’s satalites and wouldn’t run anymore after 3 uses, finding out afterwards that the company put this in DELIBERATELY.. Seriously, if they showed you those terms before purchase u’d tell the sales man to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Why no one shows me a software agreement before i buy a game like this is beyond me at this point. Because it’s nothing short of a scam. I’m hoping someone will sue EA for this after buying spore and running into this. Because i’m sure they’re crossing legal boundries in quiete a few countries when it comes to consumer rights.

I mean, after that cogent, carefully considered treatise, what more is there to say?

“If all PC gamers are pirates, then how come the #1 game worldwide, World of Warcraft, is not pirated and has managed to sell umpteen millions of copies? There is more than enough evidence, given proper business models, that the majority of PC gamers will pay for a game they wish to play.”

Primarily because subscription based games have a much greater barrier against piracy, in the sense that as an online game it checks you have a legitimate copy everytime you log into the server and can match log-ins up against CD keys…”
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WRONG. you can install WoW on any machine, anywhere. Its all about the login account. AND they do it WITHOUT DRM. Just think, if they were willing to use an online login system, you could pass on your account info when u are done with it. The copy you payed for could be played by your friends, when you are not playing, as it SHOULD BE. Think supernintendo, you buy a game, and lend it to your friend. Should that game require a thumbscan from you in order to work? hell no. your friend SHOULD be able to play your copy of the game.