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.

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.

So it is my fault for trusting that EA would actually release the same game on a different platform, when the title, box art cover, feature list, and release date are all the same?
OK.

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?