It just so happens that I love hockey, and recently I was playing NHL 09 at a friend's house on his PS3. The game was effin' great, incredible graphics, deep gameplay (for a hockey game at least), nice layout, lots of features, clearly the best hockey game ever made.
Full of excitement I went down to a store the very next day and lo and behold, on bottom shelf, a lone copy of NHL 09 for the PC was resting. It was $45 - a fair price for the best hockey game ever made, I reckoned.
Once i had installed and booted up the game, probably installing SecuROM v. 14.01 Rootkit Edition in the process, however, I started noticing some worrying differences between the version I was playing on my PC and the one I had previously played on a PS3.
First of all, the menus were all wrong, and looked more like what you can find in my old NHL 01. Then, entering a game, I noticed that the graphics were effin' crappy - they would have been considered mediocre in 2004. The textures were all low resolution and the models were blocky. Not anything like the game I played on the PS3.
What the **** is going on, I thought. I check the graphics settings. Everything maxed. Puzzled, I try to play a game. The controls are absoutely awful, and you can't do anything near as many special moves and stuff that you could on the PS3.
Even more puzzled, I exit the game and start snooping around. Guess what I find out.
The PC version of NHL "09" is not comparable to the X360 and PS3 versions, it isn't even remotely the same game. The PC version is a crappy port of the PS2 version, and it has been like this for years.
I am taking the game back to the store tomorrow.
And never buying anything from EA again. Way to rip off your PC customers releasing a game that was first made around 2004 for the PS2 and calling it "NHL 09" for the PC. All they've freaking done is run the game data through PS2_2_PC.exe, which would go a long way in explaining the horribly untuned controls.
This really brings my piss to a boil, EA will NEVER see a dime of my money again, no matter which classic IP they buy and **** up.

SecuROM *this*...
And this is why I never bought Spore... and don't plan on buying the Sims 3 unless they make some changes in their company...

Thanks for stating the obvious. People have been suffering bad PS2 ports from EA for AGES. In fact, my copy of Madden 07 for PC is a shit port, forcing me to go console. You're not the first, and you won't be the last.

um, they said sims 3 was coming without it.

But it's going to have perfectly reasonable CD-keys, right?

This isn't a SecuROM thread, stop trying to pretend it is one.
This is a passing-5-year-old-games-off-as-new-because-we-are-big-and-we-can thread.

you made the mistake of mentioning DRM in passing. You will now be subjected to hundreds of rants. At least you didn't mention Steam. Ah crap...

I thought EA Sports game on PC were a legend. Last PC EA Sports game I played was probably FIFA 2003.

This is why you properly look into any product before buying it. Due diligence goes a long way towards preventing situations like this.

This is why you just go PLAY a sport, instead of buying a video game about it.
Don't see me buying "Lance Armstrong Pro-Cycling" do you? (Never mind that it doesn't exist! Seriously, bloody game companies, effin' ignore cycling!)
.. Sorry, I just felt like injecting a bit of snarky humor in to the thread. :)

Yep, all they did with the NHL for a few years was to update the teams, make a new logo in Photoshop in 10 minutes and sell it as a new game...

It's not a matter of "fault", and I actually don't consider anyone to be at "fault" in this entire matter. I was just stating a simple way to prevent issues like this from arising in the future.

There's cycling games out there, every year I go back home to Spain and a new one has been released.

Brotha, you actually BUY EA games?