Comments on: Sims 3: No Online Authentication!

By: chipsy

chipsy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:42:11 +0000

shit i need key for sims 3 !! can help me anyone …???

By: FuckEA

FuckEA — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Bullshit. The game requires access to the internet in order to verify ownership of the game. You can’t start the game without it checking online. They’ve lied before about this with The Sims 2 expansion packs. They’re just spin machines, they pick an easy political target, and distract with disinformation and hype. Like corporate news stations.

By: pirate games

pirate games — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:02:54 +0000

I want to get more pirated games. How is it possible?

By: Jason Moyer

Jason Moyer — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:50:12 +0000

Ugh. I really liked the copy protection in Mass Effect/Dead Space/Mirror’s Edge compared to Steam or Disc-checking stuff. Hopefully this is something they’re doing purely for this title, with the assumption that their target demographic is more capable of dealing with disc protection than having to be online for 5 seconds during the installaton.

Using my DVD-ROM drive as a dongle is by far the worst copy protection ever, and having to wait forever for people to “fix” my game everytime there’s a new patch is irritating (and in some cases never happens, which is why I’ve never gotten around to playing Far Cry 2 or most Starforce games).

By: DMJ

DMJ — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:35:13 +0000

Am I the only one who can’t help noticing that the laptop in the screenshot looks like it was assembled by a monkey which couldn’t tell which way up a keyboard should go?

Fresh from the Dell factory, perhaps?

It is so wrong, it’s like splintery wooden stakes being jammed into my eyes.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:28:06 +0000

I only grill steak while i play because my cpu heat sync gets hot and it’d be a sae to waste the heat.

The drunkeness is totaly unrelated.

The sims player in my house doesnt actualy want sims3, she says the ideas of an open city horrifies her. SHE DEMANDS ABSOLOUTE CONTROL!

By: Matt Kemp

Matt Kemp — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:12:20 +0000

When did everyone suddenly become manly men that only plays first-person shooters while drunk and grilling a steak? I played the sims. Hell, I went through two copies of the Sims 2.

While I would prefer no DRM, I prefer simple disc protection to online activation (By the way, when did Steam become the worshipped god of DRM?) as I had such trouble with RA3. As much as you don’t like it, companies will use DRM where they think it will lessen piracy. If you are truly offended by companies trying to protect their property (all information is not free), do the admirable thing and refuse to buy or play it, rather than just pirating it or cracking it.

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Shorter link to actual deauthorisation tools:
http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/gamesList.html

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:01:37 +0000

Sorry, my link didn’t work:
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_li=&p_sid=iTdKrQtj&p_sp=&p_faqid=20876&p_iid=0&p_created=&p_prod=&p_cat=&p_cv=&p_pv=&p_prods=&p_cats=&prod_lvl1=&prod_lvl2=&prod_lvl3=&cat_lvl1=&cat_lvl2=&cat_lvl3=&p_hidden_prods=&p_search_text=&p_new_search=&p_accessibility=&p_page=&p_lva=20876&nextlink=

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:00:21 +0000

Well I've just found out that EA have finally got around to sorting out deauthorisation tools for all of their limited activation games, including a tool that can de-auth multiple games. Finally I can de-auth Mass Effect. Still not sure I wish to buy any more limited activation games, but at least now I don't have to worry about Mass Effect, which was the only game I had I couldn't de-auth. Details

By: PC Monster

PC Monster — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:37:51 +0000

While not a fan of DRM per se I find disc-based copy-protection schemes much less annoying than that online activation gubbins, Steam et al. I suffer no sleepless nights from circumventing the necessity of needing the disc in the drive through cracks – I have paid for the game, manual and media it came on, therefore I should be allowed to have it run it on my PC as I see fit – but needing the say-so of another entity before I can play games is, for me, much less appealing.

Besides, I rather like typing in those 25-character codes before you can start; it’s almost a wee minigame in itself!

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:08:24 +0000

I’m constantly amused by the new meta-layer of games discussion, where the copy protection of the game attracts more attention than the game itself.