EA drops draconian DRM

Montrealien - 588 days 18 hours ago

PC gaming has been dying since 1993, the oldest false assumption on the internet.

But I do agree, DRM sucks. What scares me most though is Sony DRM on my Blu ray player. They have been way too quiet about this since they won the format war and I am worried to see what they will do once the market is well established.

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shine1396 - 588 days 18 hours ago

a couple of years ago I would have agreed with you...sony's seems to be changing its tune with drm...they seem to 'want' to be seen as being more open and allow flexibilty between devices, sony ericsson walkman...psp...ps3...no need for drm at the moment... maybe I could be mistaken, piracy seems to be hitting hard but not even being able share with your friends is crap...remember ps3 is region free...and for the time being, quite a few bd movies are region free. still good comment. bubbles 4 you...

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Montrealien - 588 days 18 hours ago

I also hope it stays clean and open.

I run a game store in a Very large Video Rental store here in MTL, the worries in the rental industry is that sony will start selling "rental" versions of their movies and "consumer" versions. But it is all assumptions at the moment so it is always a wait and see thing.

bubbles back at ya ;D

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MK_Red - 588 days 16 hours ago

lol true. First the Bad Company scandal and now this. Seriously, what the heck were they thinking? Hackers would released DRM free and pirated copies of Spore and ME before their official release.

Now at least you know hat buy getting the legit copy, you won't need stupid confirmation / activing thing.

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Lumbo - 588 days 15 hours ago

I wouldn't be too sure there, EA just wants to avoid a month of ugly bad PR against the copy protection scheme that is a horror for honest customers, possibly endangering their system integrity cause of the hidden driver and blacklist nonsense and the constant call-home crap.

The pirates will have the premium version a week before the release anyways, premium as in "no need to infect your system with pointless SecuRom garbage".

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MK_Red - 588 days 15 hours ago

Exactky what Lumbo said.

Ea just wants to distance itself from the nightmarish and crappy security systems that hurt sales more than anything.
And pirates indeed have a premium / no-activation-needed version a week before the game's release date. When you can get a free pirated version that's free of any disgusting and stupid DRM crap...

Still, glad to hear both Spore and ME are free of that crap. I'm definitly getting Spore now. As for ME, I already have it for 360.

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Lumbo - 588 days 15 hours ago

They WILL ship it with secuROM, just not with the "i call home every week and will disable myself if i feel like it" version.

And there is no guarantee that they won't ship with something similar. It is just to avoid the PR disaster that was Bioshocks crashed activation server on releaseday .. buy a game and not being able to play cause the distributor deemed it necessary to punish honest buyers with such nonsense is not the best thing to prevent warez .. actually it drives people into the arms of the warez nets.

And seemingly they STILL want to use the ridicules "online activation" version of SecuROM that crippled Bioshock until the Hackers provided a garbage free version.

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