Not for the heavy handed tactic employed by a government, but at the same time using the most heavy handed DRM measures possible in all of EA's future releases.
(max 3 re-activations before the game is useless, online activation)
All of which only the honest consumers are subjected too, the pirates will have that all removed within a week or so.

Sorry, but I have a hard time believing what the man is saying.

My first reaction was to think it ironic too considering EA's DRM stance, but let's be honest, even if it does inconvenience consumers there's a world of difference between prevention methods and what amounts to extortion. (Note: When I say "extortion" I'm not saying it's right for people to pirate software, but I also don't think it's right for the companies to squeeze every penny out of those people they can get.)

 It's nice to hear this from an industry leader. Now if they'll stop using horribly restrictive DRM that would be nice. I've yet to have a problem with EA's DRM but they're using the same tech as THQ and that has made 2 games unplayable for me. 

Anyways. Well played sir, well played.

And how is SuckROM working Moore?

EA is just having their people to say stuff like this because they are still trying to recover their image after taking out T2, BioWare, and other bad business practices.  They are doing everything they can to help their image, including giving id an amazing deal where EA will publish their games and pretty much let id reep all of the profits as long as the heads of id talk nice about EA when they used to trash talk them worse than I do.  (of course for $4 million i would prolly shut up, and $10 million i would talk nice.)

Am I the only one who thinks that man even LOOKS like the devil?

 
There is always a better way but without a balance to the buying process(IE RETURNS) there is no moving forward unless you halve the price of a game.

 

I have no patients or care for poorly devs products without a way to redress the issues I have with modern gaming I am left to “alternative means” to ensure my money is protected, the process of buying media is needs to get cheaper or allow returns which will take a nice bite out of money based “piracy”.

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" People put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their content and deserve to get paid for it."

Well there is a lot of blood in a lot of games and I have seen a few tears in ONE 2001 game but I can't remember seeing sweat (perhaps it's because I don't play sports games). Can anyone fill me in?

Game experiences like game-crippling DRM?

Thats supprising considering he came form Microsoft who love to threaten to sue people that DONT use their IP.

Current console protections are adequate and a little bit too protective. Services like WiiWare and Virtual Console, there isn't much really there to help you transfer your games from one system to another (i.e. if one breaks) and even Xbox Live Arcade, you need to be signed into the account just to play them on a new console (so unless your new 360 after your old one red ringed) if you take your 360 somewhere that doesn't have an internet connection, your screwed. Impart from that its good enough.

I for one do not believe even the majority of Crysis owners are pirates let alone 90%. Like the majority of big PC releases, most people simply cant afford the hardware.

These companies are all very very very very very stupid.

Here's the thing. As a consumer, I will purchase a game if it adds value to the experience of having the game.

Personally, that often means I'll purchase a game if it gives me some of the following:

1. A warm and fuzzy feeling for doing the right thing.

2. A permenant medium to allow me to play a game without having to seek it out.

3. The knowledge that I can just put the disk into my drive and play.

So, here's the thing.

I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling for giving companies that sue their customers money. I'm not going to do it. That means I won't buy a game from Atari, Codemasters, et. al. based on principles.

I don't get a permenant medium to allow me to play a game without having to seek it out. Simply having the CD isn't enough anymore. You need a billion asinine codes that inevitably get lost because for some stupid reason they're not printed on the CD. I've never had to worry about whether a pirated game would work, but most of the PC games I have simply don't work. I've got games I haven't even played that I'll never get to now, because even though I've got the CD, I don't have the CD keys!

Finally, the pirated version vs. the legit version has had a swap of places in recent years. It used to be, the real version would always work, and the pirated version would be dodgy. Now, however, the roles are reversed. I haven't had a pirated game not work for me for ages, but the real games are so filled with copy protection, that they don't run a reasonably large portion of the time, whether it's because they ask for the CD/DVD when they clearly don't need it, or because their gay copy protection has broken something, or because I lost the code and can't play it anymore!

The gaming industry needs to step up and stop destroying the value of buying a game! I'm going to stop buying them if there's no good reason to buy them anymore!

Thanks good job;

Btw, I think Atari and Midway will drop out too, but mostly travesti because  these guys have done nothing travesti or little and need to start saving costs. and dizi izle