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Posted September 11, 2009
http://www.impulsedriven.com/news/1356/Electronic_Arts_Comes_to_Impulse
You're next, GOG. ;)
Post edited September 11, 2009 by chautemoc
Posted September 11, 2009
Shame all the EA games come with SecuROM.
Posted September 11, 2009
they'll never go drm free
Posted September 11, 2009
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Delixe: Shame all the EA games come with SecuROM.

Yeppers, that is unfortunate, but I still think it's a good sign.
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captfitz: they'll never go drm free

Sims 3 (retail) is, assuming you discount disk check.
Post edited September 11, 2009 by chautemoc
Posted September 11, 2009
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captfitz: they'll never go drm free

They recently removed copy protection from Battlefield 2. So they don't seem to mind older games going DRM-free.
Posted September 11, 2009
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captfitz: they'll never go drm free
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Navagon: They recently removed copy protection from Battlefield 2. So they don't seem to mind older games going DRM-free.

http://www.the-prism.com/index.php?topic=3545.msg42481#msg42481]
Apparently[/url] that was due to expiring licenses with SafeDisc, and SecuROM was planned to replace it. Close call.
Posted September 11, 2009
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Delixe: Shame all the EA games come with SecuROM.
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chautemoc: Yeppers, that is unfortunate, but I still think it's a good sign.

It's yet another small but positive step from EA. They definitely come across as a company that is testing very alien waters.
Posted September 11, 2009
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Delixe: It's yet another small but positive step from EA. They definitely come across as a company that is testing very alien waters.

Quite so. You should read this interview.
Post edited September 11, 2009 by chautemoc
Posted September 11, 2009
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chautemoc: http://www.the-prism.com/index.php?topic=3545.msg42481#msg42481]
Apparently[/url] that was due to expiring licenses with SafeDisc, and SecuROM was planned to replace it. Close call.

*sigh* Just when it seemed like they had actually learned something...
Posted September 11, 2009
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chautemoc: http://www.the-prism.com/index.php?topic=3545.msg42481#msg42481]
Apparently[/url] that was due to expiring licenses with SafeDisc, and SecuROM was planned to replace it. Close call.
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Navagon: *sigh* Just when it seemed like they had actually learned something...

I think they have as most of their interviews have been promising like the one chautemoc posted. The trouble with EA is they are too big and too internally fractured. They have absorbed a lot of true gamers and idealists that have changed the company's stance on many things. The trouble is its still the money men who control the purse strings and to them no DRM is an utterly alien concept.
Posted September 11, 2009
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chautemoc: http://www.the-prism.com/index.php?topic=3545.msg42481#msg42481]
Apparently[/url] that was due to expiring licenses with SafeDisc, and SecuROM was planned to replace it. Close call.
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Navagon: *sigh* Just when it seemed like they had actually learned something...

Damn... Thanks for that link. I just posted it to the rest of my gaming community. We just upgraded our BF2 server to the 1.50 patch.
Posted September 11, 2009
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Delixe: I think they have as most of their interviews have been promising like the one chautemoc posted. The trouble with EA is they are too big and too internally fractured. They have absorbed a lot of true gamers and idealists that have changed the company's stance on many things. The trouble is its still the money men who control the purse strings and to them no DRM is an utterly alien concept.

While they're still making the same mistakes, their expressed views attitudes and embrace of change within the industry don't add up to a whole lot. What we've seen so far is a essentially the re-branding of the same damn problems rather than the addressing of those problems. The "DRM-free" C&C 4 that requires constant online access is one example.
Posted September 11, 2009
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Wishbone: Damn... Thanks for that link. I just posted it to the rest of my gaming community. We just upgraded our BF2 server to the 1.50 patch.

Welcome.
Don't forget the hotfix, if the patch hasn't already been updated with it. ;)
Posted September 11, 2009
the drm is due to a desprate need to curb illegal downloading now that brodband is common. the advantage gog.com has are that the titles are so old that the publiisher no longer feels the need to impeed free use since the games sold here have already been paid off in development fees and other costs. but i still think someone would get persued for hosting gog games on usenet. we are on the honor system here.
Posted September 11, 2009
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Jeffpiatt: the drm is due to a desprate need to curb illegal downloading now that brodband is common. the advantage gog.com has are that the titles are so old that the publiisher no longer feels the need to impeed free use since the games sold here have already been paid off in development fees and other costs. but i still think someone would get persued for hosting gog games on usenet. we are on the honor system here.

Yes, that's true jeff, but DRm actually PROMOTES piracy, since because of it, the pirated versions of games are usually the "definitive" versions. The DRm industry is built around false promises, alterior motives, and parasitism, to the point that everybody KNOWS everybody else is lying to them, yet everyone still does business.
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