Ich wollte mir eigentlich WAR kaufen, aber dann bin ich unverhofft über ein gnadenloses Beispiel der EA Politik gestolpert, wie Ihr ja alle wisst ist EA mitlerweile Muttergesellschaft von Mythic und somit auch mit WAR indirekt verbunden. So fließt das Geld von den Erlösen aus WAR natürlich auch in die Taschen von EA und rechtfertigt damit deren Kundenpolitik. Ich habe Euch hier eine leicht geschnittene Version des Urtextes kopiert, wer den ganzen Text lesen möchte kann unten den Link verwenden. Was haltet Ihr davon?
EA has responded to the DRM protests, and their response is appalling.
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Jeff Brown, vice president of corporate communications at EA, told me on Tuesday that in its last financial year only 0.5 per cent of players activated EA computer games on as many as three machines, with 90 per cent activating on only one machine. He said EA Customer Service would talk through any special circumstances with customers calling to request further activations. He described EA’s SecuROM DRM as standard for the industry and cited Apple’s practice of only allowing downloaded music to be played on three devices. “We are extremely pleased with the popularity of Spore and the critical response to it,” he said. The latest figures on Amazon are 1,676 one-star reviews out of 1,812.
This statement is full of innacurate comparisons and half-truths.
This form of activation is not common practice, far from it. Firstly, they’re not in the business of selling online music. They’re selling games that you buy a disk for. And there are exactly two disk based pc games with this type of DRM on them in existance at this time, and in both cases, they’re sold by EA. Even if you take the analogy out to cover music you buy via a disk, there isn’t copy protection on any music you buy via that format, because Sony got into huge trouble for attempting such a thing a few years back.
Secondly, the number of people who contact tech support have no reflection on the number of people who have issues with their games. The majority of people are well-aware of how bad EA’s tech support is, and they either find another way around the issues EA creates with their pcs, or in some cases they give up entirely and don't get the product they paid for.
Also, as EA did not start using this activation system until this financial year, we are not entirely sure how figures from last financial year relate, unless they're using the figures for their games bought online. And those games and that activation system are not the subject for discussion at this time."
Thirdly, the issue does not revolve around people installing games on multiple pcs. The issue comes in when you replace your motherboard, ram, anything on your pc at all. As pc parts are getting less and less reliable, people have to replace their parts on their pc with increasing frequency. I’ve personally had to replace my motherboard about once a year since I’ve had my pc. Plus I’ve also had to replace my harddrive, increase my RAM due to the incredible demands of their pc and replace my graphics card more than once.
Based on this, I would probably have bought the same game from them that I’ve already purchased from them between three to five times. Which as we all know, is the real reason EA wants to introduce this DRM. They would like to have us pay, and pay, and pay. And frankly, they can take a long walk off a short peir. Once you’ve bought a game, you’ve bought it, you haven’t rented it.
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