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When I see people who hate EA because of their DRM go after the thieves (who forced the DRM upon the paying customer with their inexcusable entitlement-centric behavior) as well, then I'll take their opinion seriously.

How exactly are we supposed to "go after the thieves"? I encourage my friends not to private but that's pretty much the extent of my involvement. Just because there are pirates doesn't mean EA should start treating me worse as a customer. I'm the one they are tying to get money from and that works a whole lot better if you keep yourself on my good side. If I decide I don't like what their offering or can't tolerate their business practices anymore I'll just go somewhere else.

At this point some of us have already stopped buying their products and others of us are loudly complaining letting them know their on the verge of loosing our business. Now it's up to them to pick what they want to do.

That's how business works neither party is entitled to service from the other side and as soon as it is not mutually beneficial for everybody it should just end.
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How exactly are we supposed to "go after the thieves"? I encourage my friends not to private but that's pretty much the extent of my involvement. Just because there are pirates doesn't mean EA should start treating me worse as a customer. I'm the one they are tying to get money from and that works a whole lot better if you keep yourself on my good side. If I decide I don't like what their offering or can't tolerate their business practices anymore I'll just go somewhere else.
At this point some of us have already stopped buying their products and others of us are loudly complaining letting them know their on the verge of loosing our business. Now it's up to them to pick what they want to do.
That's how business works neither party is entitled to service from the other side and as soon as it is not mutually beneficial for everybody it should just end.

stargate still erroneously calls pirates thieves. You will never get a straight conversation out of him. Piracy isn't going anywhere and while I agree there should be more bluster put towards chasing the enablers (the people making pirated materials available, scene groups, torrent sites, etc) I think paying customers should come above DRM measures. If your DRM measures are going to piss off customers and diminish a product then you need to just put up with piracy until you figure something else out and rely on the strength of your product.
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I will not be investing in EA games anymore!
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I just found out today that Crysis 1 required you to be online to play singleplayer... I was quite surprised and upset. I guess I should have researched it before the purchase frown.gif It's likely I never even get to play this game as I only play single player games when I take my computer to work and its slow and I don't have a internet connection there.

DRM FTL is this case :/
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I just found out today that Crysis 1 required you to be online to play singleplayer... I was quite surprised and upset. I guess I should have researched it before the purchase frown.gif It's likely I never even get to play this game as I only play single player games when I take my computer to work and its slow and I don't have a internet connection there.
DRM FTL is this case :/

I'm 99% certain that my DVD Copy from launch don't
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I'm 99% certain that my DVD Copy from launch don't

I guess it's only with the digital copies then frown.gif
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I guess it's only with the digital copies then frown.gif

My Steam copy works fine in offline mode. What digital service did you use?
 
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I used steam! I was at work today and started steam in offline mode but I kept getting this EA messasege saying "this game needs an internet connection to verify game" etc.!

edit: weird I just tried it now and it worked!??doh.gif I don't know why it worked now because I had already installed/activated through steam last night and played about 15 mins. Strange. Maybe It needed to update or something.
Edited by HighwayStar - 7/21/12 at 10:48pm
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eh who cares EA sucks anyway, they brand all PC gamers as pirates anyway.
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eh who cares EA sucks anyway, they brand all PC gamers as pirates anyway.

Or is it the other way around, all pirates are PC gamers tongue.gif
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