Thread: EA and their damn DRM... crysis 2!?!?

Um...buy the game?

However, if you need an internet connection every time you play, you're screwed.

well that's what happened with Command and conquer. although EA released a DRM-removal tool. and the question is how someone could possibly bypass the need for an internet connection. i mean command and conquer isnt an MMO or anthing, it has a single player mode, but even then you cant play if you lose your connection and you lose save progress. and that is what sucks. do you think there will be a way to get past the internet connection thing? i mean the only thing i could think of, theoretically, would be to create a virtual server. or actually use one.

A lot of companies obviously don't listen to the communities.

I've read an article recently about EA saying making games for the console and then porting them to the PC, or making games for the PC with the console in mind, then porting them to the console is a bad idea.

Lots of gamers have been saying that is bad for a very long time, and only now are they realizing that it's bad. A lot of console elitists will say that PC gamers are whiny when it comes to games and such, but PC gamers are a big part of games and will definitely make them last a very long time.

Games should be made with the PC in mind, then ported the consoles, not the other way around.

EA has since published a removal tool for Command and conquer, but only because their profits began to fall and they got drowned in complaints. oh well. i dont actually know what ubisoft's position is, they did the same to their games, but the game still hasnt been successfully opened up by pirates, which is a shame. oh well. thanks for replying btw.

Atleast C&C4 was a complete and utter failure Serves them right. For the big game series that it is, sales went terrible... and on steam stats the game isn't even on the list currently. (Top 75 games) That is horrible

(we're talking about how much EA fails, right, right?)

i agree. the last good game EA made was battlefield heroes, and thats saying something. (seriously though, play for free? that game is awesome)

i agree. the last good game EA made was battlefield heroes, and thats saying something. (seriously though, play for free? that game is awesome)

Yeah, for a free game it's quite good. Obviously the money sink lies in the fact that they've made so much microtransaction items now Also simply means that players that put more money into the game will have bigger advantages over players that don't.

Although you can't really complain about that I guess It IS good free fun in the end.

I assume you play regularly? its pretty fun, reminds me of Team fortress 2 with the graphics sometimes. PM me your name on BFH if you want, i want to play with someone decent lol. national or royal?

I assume you play regularly? its pretty fun, reminds me of Team fortress 2 with the graphics sometimes. PM me your name on BFH if you want, i want to play with someone decent lol. national or royal?

nah, don't actually play anymore. I have bad company 2 So don't actually see the point.

I absolutely hate this DRM crap. I bought Settlers 7 on the day of release and couldn't play it because Ubisofts servers were down or having issues. So it wasn't just me but heaps of other people who couldn't play the game. Having a game not work when its released is very very bad. You can't take it back either because you end up using the cd-key. Settlers 7 is a really crap game by the way. Settlers6 was good but this one sucks. They need to ditch this DRM crap, single player games SHOULD NOT require an internet connection. What about the people who don't have the internet? what happens when your internet drops out? They should find a better way to protect their games from pirates. What is the world coming to when you need an internet connection to play a single player game?

I couldn't wait for AC2 to be cracked so i bought it coz I really liked the first one. I would have rather got a pirated copy though. Btw, what does DRM stand for?

Crysis 2 looks pretty bad. It may be CryEngine 3.0 but the graphics are worse than Crysis.

Eonn DRM stands for data rights management, which I find rather fucking ironic.

Is it not Digital Rights Management?

yeah it is, dunno what compelled me to put data. thanks JD

No sweat I agree about the DRM, by the way. It's absolutely ridiculous to have to be online the entire time you play a game. If my internet connection is anything to judge others from, it occasionally cuts out and re-establishes itself. If that caused me to be auto-quitted from my single player game without saving, I would truly be livid. It really does seem like a heavy-handed scheme to use against pirates, there's gotta be another way.