EA to implement Ubi style DRM system

[Sonarman]

Monkey see, monkey do...Seems EA are to adopt a Ubi style DRM system for all future releases, doesn't worry me too much as they never release anything worth buying anyway!

[Coldcall]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Monkey see, monkey do...Seems EA are to adopt a Ubi style DRM system for all future releases, doesn't worry me too much as they never release anything worth buying anyway!

Unbelievable.

Well, time to start supporting smaller independent developers because the big corps are going to strangle the market.

I liked old Bioware titles when they were not part of EA, but they sure have changed in the last couple years.

[DMB3428]

this is probably going to become a way of life from now on, they cant stop people from stealing the software therefore we all have to pay the price.

[BigBANGtheory]

If it actually worked properly, at least that would be something.

[HansLanda]

hm.. dont mind the DRM as such as long as it is functional in a sense that it does not lock out the paying customers. Perhaps EA can do better job of implementing their version... although I'm not betting on this one.

[Coldcall]

Originally Posted by DMB3428

this is probably going to become a way of life from now on, they cant stop people from stealing the software therefore we all have to pay the price.

If they used their brains and werent so goddam cheap they could minimise the piracy by for instance producing a large detailed manual, the likes of which dissapeared since the days of Falcon 4.

How many folks bothered pirating F4 when without the manual it was practically like learning chinese?

So in effect the digitisation/dumbing down of manuals which is down to their cheapness is a major reason getting an illegal copy of a game is more viable today than it use to be.

People who might be tempted to illegally aquire a game like SH5 would be far more inclined to purchase the retail version if it came with a substantial manual.

EA and Ubisoft are just full-o-crap. I'm a free marketeer and certainly no anti-capitalist but these bastards are ruining one of the few pleasures in my life.

[Gammelpreusse]

Man, I am glad my fascination for games is not anymore what it used to be.
Appears it's time to concentrate on more important things in life.

[The Enigma]

Originally Posted by HansLanda

hm.. dont mind the DRM as such as long as it is functional in a sense that it does not lock out the paying customers. Perhaps EA can do better job of implementing their version... although I'm not betting on this one.

Well, I'm (edit: I was) a paying customer.
Now I'm no longer a UBI customer.
As a matter of fact, I do feel locked out.

[msxyz]

Ok, it looks like I won't buy the next Dragon Age game, after all...

Good thing that, between The Witcher 2 and Drakensang, I won't lack my yearly RPG fix

[Coldcall]

Originally Posted by msxyz

Ok, it looks like I won't buy the next Dragon Age game, after all...

Good thing that, between The Witcher 2 and Drakensang, I won't lack my yearly RPG fix

Fron what Ive heard the DAO expansion Awakenings is not very good anyway, just more Darkspawn to kill.

I thought DAo was okay, but when they started releasing tiny DLC content at $5 a pop i uninstalled and likley wont go back.

[RSColonel_131st]

Exactly as I predicted. I was sure EA had similar ideas to UBI, but until either of the big two made the first test the other would wait.

EA obviously is happy that UBI still has good salesnumbers and now announced what they had in mind for a while. I said that UBI needs to fail in order not to set a precendence for others. Now it has happened.

Activision/Blizzard also had plans to do the same, which you can bet will now be realized.


And once all customers are permantely connected for single player games, you can expect games to be sold for 5USD MONTHLY subscription. You will be paying twice and triple the price to keep playing games. You will have increasingly little control over when and how you can play your game, and you will never have a true "perpetual license" ever again.


Thanks all who supported UBI in this hard decision. I mean, it didn't stop pirates even a week, but that was never really the point, was it?

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by DMB3428

this is probably going to become a way of life from now on, they cant stop people from stealing the software therefore we all have to pay the price.

You cannot steal software unless you're picking the boxed product from the retail shelf without paying. To steal is to deprive physically something from someone. Copying a software without authorization is called copyright infrigement. Just saying eh, words are important.

[mookiemookie]

Why is this in the SH5 forum? This is the SH5 forum, not the "DRM systems of various game companies" forum.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Why is this in the SH5 forum? This is the SH5 forum, not the "DRM systems of various game companies" forum.

Well in all fairness SH5 was really the point man on this drm scheme so its going to be discussed here like it or not.

It looks like EA is not really paying attention or in their arrogance think they can do it better.

[Nordmann]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Monkey see, monkey do...Seems EA are to adopt a Ubi style DRM system for all future releases, doesn't worry me too much as they never release anything worth buying anyway!

It worries me, because some of the EA titles are worth buying (think Mass Effect), at least as far as I'm concerned.

Honestly, I'm surprised by this. Given the amount of backlash Ubi have received over their OSP, I would have thought that other developers/publishers would have steered well clear of such a scheme, but obviously they have yet to learn their lesson! They will in time though, you can be sure of that.