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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:12 am
by TheCatt
That's what newsgroups and torrents are for.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:35 am
by Cakedaddy
Leisher wrote:Farcry 2 is Ubisoft, not EA.
Boycotting the entire industry is going to suck.
Ahh, well, it was posted in an EA thread, so, your fault. 
I don't like some of the stuff people are doing with their games. But, they haven't personaly attacked or hurt me yet. So, I'm not boycotting yet. EA laughed at me on the phone and dared me to stop giving them money. So, I did.
As far as Securom. I don't know much/anything about it. So, can't pass judgement.
But out of curiousity. What is hitting up a special interest group going to do? As long as people buy this shit, they won't stop using it. EA fucks people over on a daily basis. Yet, they still give EA money. What is their motivation to stop being dicks?
I dunno. I don't know the industry as deep as you do. But I sleep well at night knowing I'm not contributing to companies thinking it's ok to be assholes. So, I have that at least.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:45 am
by Leisher
EA Sales have taken a hit due to their use of SecureRom as have other developers. There is also already a class action lawsuit regarding its use in Spore. The industry has already lost similar lawsuits related to StarDock (which I believe was what SecureRom used to be known as...).
The problem is that the industry continues to do it despite losing sales and losing lawsuits because they apparently are still making money by limiting what their consumers can do with their purchased products.
As TPR points out one of the beliefs is that SecureRom is being used to squash the market for used games. That is a great concern as you having paid for the product should be allowed to do whatever you want with it, including re-selling or gifting it to someone else.
A bigger problem is the fact that SecureRom continues to be installed and running on your system even after you've uninstalled the game it came with. It is spying on your PC and you.
Writing the special interest group is simply a means of asking what they're doing about the issue. It needs to go away. Game publishers are using piracy as an excuse to take advantage of their legit consumers and trying to use strong arm tactics to drive their sales up.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:47 am
by GORDON
EA shutting down multi servers for a lot of games, including ones released in '09.
http://www.playstationuniversity.com/ea-shut....ly-1846
I guess they want you to rebuy the game if you want to keep doing multi.
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:46 pm
by WSGrundy
This is where MS should step in on the 360 side of things. What exactly are these people paying for if they aren't paying for servers to be up and running for their gold accounts.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:14 pm
by Leisher
The article implies that they probably will be able to continue to play, just not on the EA servers...? I'm a bit lost
Also, in EA's defense, and I hate EA, they are shutting down servers on older, and probably less played games.
And that's probably mostly true...although, it'd be silly not to point out that this probably helps drives sales of the newer versions of these titles too...
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:48 pm
by GORDON
And hurts the used games market.