SYNDICATE 3 = YAY
EA = BOOOO
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I can already tell you that it will need 6 separate expansion packs before it will be enjoyable, and the DRM will cause your computer to self-destruct after the first launch of the game.
Sounds like EA, doesn't it?

Either that or it will be console only. When did good gaming new start to turn this sour?

When publishers decided to ignore their paying customers and instead focused on blaming software piracy for weak sales of their crappy and pathetic games.
Thank God we still have people that can invent something like Portal instead of another Sims Golden Fish & Cat Expansion Pack.

That would be it.

At first I was excited, then I saw the dreaded two vowel combination of a publisher.
It's just too hard to be happy about the majority of new stuff nowadays. Oh well, off to fight the evil shed-mold and see if my original copy has survived.

I wonder how much it would cost Lionhead to get that IP back from EA?
It is interesting that Starbreeze might be making this one, though.

Tis a pity. I loved the first two, still have them. Just some more of my money that EA won't be seeing.

EA might get my money again with their new releases, if they decide to loosen up on their DRM quite a bit.
A few starts in the right direction = at least allowing for revokes.
I'd prefer them removing install limits;
I can deal w/ SP-game activation, but I'd rather live without it.

No doubt this will follow other EA games and have internet activation and limited installs.
As such I'm not even going to read the previous of this game as I will no doubt be sourly disappointed on release when I can not buy it because of the activation
:(

i agree it's likely that EA will continue its DRM scheme for this title... a pity. everyone agrees that install limits are a slash at consumer rights (specifically, the second hand market), but consumers helped to create this problem. EA saw the success of iTunes and people putting up with install limits there (i.e., authorized devices to play purchased music), so EA is just doing the same thing. if people want to stop futile DRM, then everyone should be conscious of the DRM in all the digital content they purchase.
people should be just as up in arms about online activation. it's has the same dangers as install limits because you could lose access to your legally purchased content if the company running the servers goes under or decides to shut them off. and don't tell me that that's no big deal because gamers could just get a no-CD crack -- people shouldn't have to break the law (DMCA) just to use their legally purchased content.