The new version of Securom demonstrates just how borked it is (Mass Effect)
morriganrant:
3 installs totally new? Didn't they do it for BioShock? That was one of the things that that group was pissed about as well, and it came out when BV did. Even it's damn demo came with Securom.
saraswati:
This is the first time EA's done this.. and with the Bioshock game people have been yelling at Microsoft about that issue for long enough, that they've now stated they're going to release a version without the activations. (I was reading about it on one of the forums)
EA makes some interesting business decisions.. Sony gets it's arse chewed out by the FTC over the music CD copy protection issue, that suit finishes in February 2007 with a judgement against Sony.. EA decides to get into bed with another arm of Sony using similar methods of copy protection on games two months later? Microsoft gets into a world of trouble with limited activations on Bioshock, so EA decides to go down that road a few months later in what looks like a pissy attempt to extort money out of people.
Budcot:
My boyfriend showed me http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/revoketool.html about bioshock. Not good for massive crashes before you can revoke it but better than when it started.
Dea:
This is L&P bc I cant find where I read it but EA is doing this bc they want to get out of PC games and strictly do platform games. If PC game sales go down enough they will discontinue producing them.
Solowren:
Dea: I don't buy that. EA is very proud of the fact that it's sold over 1 million copies of the Sims. The Sims 1 was the best-selling PC game of all time. The Sims 2 is well on its way, if it hasn't gotten there already.
I don't think for a minute that EA wants to get out of the PC market. It would completely cut off what I would say is a majority of their customer base.
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