I just find it a curiously funny incendent that Syndicate is released on the Internet Blackout Day to stop greedy corporation from gaining ultimate power while Syndicate is all about greedy corpoation struggling for it.

makes you think... ;D

That was yesterday but yeah its kinda coincidental.

Actually it's realeased a day later.

I am glad you undertand the humour in it...

Even more ironically, EA is part of the ESA, that is supporting SOPA/PIPA. As much as I would love to play this game, I would rather boycott anything related to a company that even indirectly supports stomping upon our freedom of speech.

EA has no stance on SOPA. They don’t support it, but they also aren’t going to speak out against it. Being a member of the ESA, that kind of makes them for it by default, but they’re trying to stay neutral.

By my lights that still boils down to supporting it. This may not be a nuanced view, but it's not hard to spin up ill will for the EA of the last 10 years.

That's sadly unlikely to ever happen, as neither EA nor the former Looking Glass people at Irrational Games own the full rights to the game - http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/713030/the-lost-history-of-system-shock/

Well dang. That's a bummer. I've never played System Shock 2, and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

On the bright side, the ESA has apparently dropped support for SOPA, which I can imagine has solved a problem for EA's public relations dept, and has brought us one tiny step closer to the deaths of these bills.