Is EA killing gaming and the public market.

[Gregoshi]

What does that last picture symbolic of? Us sitting on the publisher's head or the DRMs sitting on ours?

That depends whether or not the cat has only 3 lives...

Of course, you could pray to God to authorize an extra life if the cat needs it.

[Praxil]

How about those bigger cats, those animals after us humans on the top of the food chain?

Anyway, no EA is biggest publisher in the industry, not in quality but in quantity. As far as I'm concerned, they're just maximizing profit. At least trying to do so.

[Martok]

Well certainly I'm of the mindset that EA -- along with any other major publisher who includes DRM with their games -- is seriously damaging the PC game market. Granted, it was piracy that started events into motion, but it's the publishers' foolhardy response to it with draconian & invasive copy protection software that turned the whole thing into a vicious cycle.

At this point, our biggest hope is that they eventually see the light and follow Stardock's model: To *not* treat customers like criminals, and remove DRM from their games. To provide long-term post-release support -- not just in the form of patches, but meaningful updates/additions to their games (which incidentally, pirates won't be able to get because only owners of a legitimate copy can download said patches & updates). Releasing games that are actually complete, and not rushed out the door riddled with bugs.


I understand that EA wants to cut their losses from piracy, but the reality is that for all intents and purposes, it's impossible to do so. Copy protection software *doesn't work* -- really -- so it's time for them to try something else.

That depends whether or not the cat has only 3 lives...

Of course, you could pray to God to authorize an extra life if the cat needs it.

LOL.

Brilliant, Gregoshi! That's one of your best ones yet.

[Veho Nex]

EA is getting a lot of bad press now. All we need to sink the shot is a news report on CNN about one of the worlds largest going down in the PC realm cause of their thick headed anti pirate schemes.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thum...ed-alert-3-drm

[rajpoot]

EA is getting a lot of bad press now. All we need to sink the shot is a news report on CNN about one of the worlds largest going down in the PC realm cause of their thick headed anti pirate schemes.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thum...ed-alert-3-drm

Wow, they've upped it to five insted of three!!!!! That'll make the day for the gamers it will!!!!!

What are these people trying to do??!!! Someone shake them and wake them up!!! I checked the EA forum thread,
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....art=0&tstart=0
the link was in the article linked by Veho Nex..........the guys behind the show have themselves posted there, they seem to think they've made life so much better for their coustomers! lol, I wanted to quote stuff out of the pages, but they are worth reading, just so one knows how thick the EA are being.