Sunday, Aug 5, 2007
I recently bought BFME 2. EA games decided that they would stick it to those pirates by including a feature that would only activate on illegal copies. This feature is one that would torment these ne'er-do-wells by killing all of their units after two minutes or so of play.
This is something that seemed like a good idea at the time, but would probably not have made it past quality control at a company that cares about its customers. I say this because I was recently the target of a false positive. While I was yelling at my computer and thinking that that EA ripped me off by selling me a glitchy game, I had no idea that this destruction of my game was actually a feature created by EA to torture me. The thing is that I paid them $40 for the BFME collector's pack and they took out their sadistic wishes on me.
I can understand their desire to stop piracy, but this is outrageous. I have a friend who downloaded this game illegally and never had this problem. This is just another example of a dumb company that doesn't understand that excessive copyright protection only hurts those who legally purchase their product.
At least EA could have given me a message saying that my software was pirated that way I could've contacted them and clarified that I had in fact purchased it at Best Buy not from bittorrent. I have still yet to contact EA tech support, but my past experiences with them have shown me that they don't care about you as long as you have already bought their product. I have reinstalled the game and am enjoying it now, but am unable to patch destroying the game's replay value, but not allowing online play.
I was excited about Crysis and I've always been a fan of the BattleField franchise, but if EA is going to continue with a business model that treats their own legitimate customers as pirates, then I will not continue to purchase any EA games at all. It's too bad that a company that helped to take video games mainstream is committing suicide, but I don't run EA and I don't plan on helping them out after this experience.
This is something that seemed like a good idea at the time, but would probably not have made it past quality control at a company that cares about its customers. I say this because I was recently the target of a false positive. While I was yelling at my computer and thinking that that EA ripped me off by selling me a glitchy game, I had no idea that this destruction of my game was actually a feature created by EA to torture me. The thing is that I paid them $40 for the BFME collector's pack and they took out their sadistic wishes on me.
I can understand their desire to stop piracy, but this is outrageous. I have a friend who downloaded this game illegally and never had this problem. This is just another example of a dumb company that doesn't understand that excessive copyright protection only hurts those who legally purchase their product.
At least EA could have given me a message saying that my software was pirated that way I could've contacted them and clarified that I had in fact purchased it at Best Buy not from bittorrent. I have still yet to contact EA tech support, but my past experiences with them have shown me that they don't care about you as long as you have already bought their product. I have reinstalled the game and am enjoying it now, but am unable to patch destroying the game's replay value, but not allowing online play.
I was excited about Crysis and I've always been a fan of the BattleField franchise, but if EA is going to continue with a business model that treats their own legitimate customers as pirates, then I will not continue to purchase any EA games at all. It's too bad that a company that helped to take video games mainstream is committing suicide, but I don't run EA and I don't plan on helping them out after this experience.
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