Thanks for imlittlev for getting me hunting. Taken from Amazon.com
Not sure if i'll be getting this one now.
Recently SPORE found itself on the receiving end of a thunderous EA customers' backlash that was heard around the gaming world.
A deluge of thousands of 1-star reviews in less than 48h (they keep pouring in as I am writing this!) all but sunk EA's flagship and made it undersell in the very important back-to-school market. Did EA get the message? Apparently not.
CRYSIS: WARHEAD is to be released in mid-September, in the all important back-to-school market. Unfortunately, it too will harbor EXACTLY THE SAME MALWARE SCHEME: SecuROM 7.xx coupled with a Limited Installations DRM.
I am sure their professional reviewers will be more ready this time and will try to fight the negative comments early on. However, they cannot turn the tide of the majority opinion:
- trying to force legitimate gamers to pay again and again for the same game by Limiting its Installations is unacceptable!
- bundling an snooping, auto-updating and in-secret-contact-with-the-mothership utility that retains backdoor access to my computer in unacceptable!!
- revoking my rights as the Administrator of my own computer by creating irremovable folders or registry entries or subroutines that run masked is UNACCEPTABLE!
There is plenty of time to correct their mistakes. After all, MASS EFFECT supposedly had its perpetual weekly re-authentication requirement removed days before its release.
Will EA at the last minute do the right thing? Let's hope so...
A deluge of thousands of 1-star reviews in less than 48h (they keep pouring in as I am writing this!) all but sunk EA's flagship and made it undersell in the very important back-to-school market. Did EA get the message? Apparently not.
CRYSIS: WARHEAD is to be released in mid-September, in the all important back-to-school market. Unfortunately, it too will harbor EXACTLY THE SAME MALWARE SCHEME: SecuROM 7.xx coupled with a Limited Installations DRM.
I am sure their professional reviewers will be more ready this time and will try to fight the negative comments early on. However, they cannot turn the tide of the majority opinion:
- trying to force legitimate gamers to pay again and again for the same game by Limiting its Installations is unacceptable!
- bundling an snooping, auto-updating and in-secret-contact-with-the-mothership utility that retains backdoor access to my computer in unacceptable!!
- revoking my rights as the Administrator of my own computer by creating irremovable folders or registry entries or subroutines that run masked is UNACCEPTABLE!
There is plenty of time to correct their mistakes. After all, MASS EFFECT supposedly had its perpetual weekly re-authentication requirement removed days before its release.
Will EA at the last minute do the right thing? Let's hope so...
BIOSHOCK was also available on STEAM - and yet, strangely enough, even the STEAM version harbored SecuROM!
It goes to show that SecuROM has everything to do with data mining in our computers than preventing...any piracy.
It goes to show that SecuROM has everything to do with data mining in our computers than preventing...any piracy.
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