EA forum bans are still effecting games.

[Beriallord]

Diablo III I hear is doing the "always connected" DRM, whether you play solo or not.

[TotalRookie]

EA is evil, the industry cares solely about money. Before it was at least about money and putting out a decent product.

[brokenergy]

EA is evil, the industry cares solely about money. Before it was at least about money and putting out a decent product.

 

EA is a business, the whole point of a business is to make money to stay afloat and to appease the investors (which range from blocs to smaller families and retirees). Every single business (no matter what sector) does that. If you be nice to everyone and don't make a profit then you're out of the game. So my advise is to take the whole romanticizes view out of your head and realize that from EA to Valve, everyone is out for money.

[dazzerfong]

Just which companies are not after the money?

 

Bethesda - emphasis for consoles. And Horse Armor. 'Nuff said.

Bioware - again, emphasis for consoles (recent times)

EA - we all know.

Ubisoft - extremely dodgy DRM's, early (and very bugged) releases.

Valve - pay 2 play items for TF2.

 

This is only a very short list: essentially, EA's too big to be generous these days.

[ComradeDispenser]

Crysis is one of the only EA games I own, and that's because my friend steam-gifted it to me, I never had to agree to that so called mannifesto.

[brokenergy]

Just which companies are not after the money?

 

Bethesda - emphasis for consoles. And Horse Armor. 'Nuff said.

Bioware - again, emphasis for consoles (recent times since 2003)

EA - we all know.

Ubisoft - extremely dodgy DRM's, early (and very bugged) releases.

Valve - pay 2 play items for TF2.

 

This is only a very short list: essentially, EA's too big to be generous these days.

 

Fixed it for you

[Beriallord]

I blame the consumers for buying these products, and tolerating these DRMs. Its like people don't even care about a quality product anymore, they are just a bunch of series fanboys who will love any crap they are willing to dish out, and then ask for more. The consumer is allowing them to get away with it. If you still want to play the games, best thing to do would be to not buy them at release date, and pick them up later on a steam sale, or GOTY pack for $20, and never give them full price for a buggy piece of crap. Dragon Age 2 is the last EA game I'm ever going to buy.

[HeyYou]

I blame the consumers for buying these products, and tolerating these DRMs. Its like people don't even care about a quality product anymore, they are just a bunch of series fanboys who will love any crap they are willing to dish out, and then ask for more. The consumer is allowing them to get away with it. If you still want to play the games, best thing to do would be to not buy them at release date, and pick them up later on a steam sale, or GOTY pack for $20, and never give them full price for a buggy piece of crap. Dragon Age 2 is the last EA game I'm ever going to buy.

 

If I don't get them free, (that is: Given as a gift...... not pirating) I usually wait until the games hit the bargain bin at wally world. Then I pick 'em up for five bucks, most of the major bugs have been ironed out, and in the case of FO/TES games, the mod community has fixed the rest.

[Illiad86]

Diablo III I hear is doing the "always connected" DRM, whether you play solo or not.

 

Indeed it is, I have the beta. Battle.net down? Sorry, can't play your single player character :rolleyes: Quite lame IMO, figuring in the few days I've had the beta, I've only got to play it TWICE because either I was getting "Battle.net is down for maintenance" or "Error 3003" (server down). Game's not that great anyways...can only hope that the finished version is nothing like the beta....

 

On topic here...I find it pretty lame that EA is doing this, but I haven't played any of their games since Madden 97 and The Sims lol (back when they were "decent"). I've said it before..these companies think that DRM is stopping piracy, it isn't, it's just making people want to pirate. Their forum bans are a little over the top IMO. Yeah, it's good to ban trolls and other jerks off the forums, but to ban them off their games, especially SINGLE PLAYER games? That's a little harsh.

[nosisab]

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." In the IP (Intellectual Property) DRM world that is the whole text.

 

Yes, it is the single area where is allowed to state: "All rights reserved", just this, no need to specify the range or scope of those rights. I can't understand how such thing was allowed to start with.

 

Addendum: Let alone almost all those corporations began pirating someone else from start, those that did are among those more careful about protecting themselves against suffering the same fate.

 

just as one example of many, Hollywood movies industries moved to California to evade Eastman-Kodak rights on the cellulose films... let's not talk about the confuse starting of MS and Apple over the Xerox original concept of pointing devices and windows....

 

should I remember you that Disney took many public domain material but will go for the neck of anyone that fail to notice some of their "creations" showing up on a forgotten TV in a home made video. The list is big.

Edited December 14, 2011 by nosisab