EA Rethinks DRM For The Sims 3
Do you still seethe when you remember the SecuROM issues that plagued Spore? Were you a part of the violent pirate backlash? Well guess what! EA may have just learned their lesson. According to Gamasutra, EA itself has announced that its next 1000kg gorilla, The Sims 3, will be released free of any oppressive DRM. Apparently they will use the good old CD serial key system, allowing the game to be installed without any kind of online activation. This also means that the new Sims game can be installed on as many machines as your little heart desires. This is an interesting move because The Sims is the most lucrative product since the Bible.
Of course final judgement should be reserved until EA actually releases the game. Who knows what those old men wearing $10,000 suits sitting in a boardroom in EA HQ smoking massive cigars are actually thinking? Maybe they’re going to try and slip some sort of DRM in eventually, or maybe they’ve actually decided to try going DRM-free. Who knows? Guess we’ll have to wait and hope that major publishers are re-thinking the policy of punishing people who legitimately buy their games.
*crosses fingers*
News Tags: DRM, EA, Sims 3, Too good to be true
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Fingers crossed, legs crossed, toes crossed and possibly my whole soul is crossed too hoping EA do the decent thing.
Not that I’ll be playing the game but I have family members who will buy and play it. My gaming time is too presious to spend it playing the Sims non stop but I’ll be well impressed if EA follow through with this.
EA could could fill my hotel room full of hookers and blow and I’d still hate them more than male pattern baldness and erectile dysfunction.
@Philbart
Not one for second chances, huh? ;)
lol.
I have just had it with the EA products(Spore, N4Speed:Underground, and others)where I have to go through their online registration, and all of their hoops.
With Spore I just said fuck it and didn’t bother to register. With N4Speed, they try to rape you with misleading titles for what is in-game credit and what you may need your credit card for…which they want the info for when you register. Their online registration is so buggy and annoying that to force it on the consumer is irritating. I WISH I had pirated Spore. Actually I don’t I’m opposed to piracy but EA are their own worst enemies.