DRM run amok: how Bioware and EA are screwing users right now
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 13 April 2011
For four days now, those of us who made the mistake of shelling out for Dragon Age:Origins (especially the Ultimate Edition) have been unable to play the single-player game that we paid for.
Game publishers of all stripes are getting greedy, and putting out games that are rushed, buggy, deliberately incomplete, and addled by bone-headed DRM schemes that serve mainly to frustrate legit players. EA and Bioware are a recent case in point.
For three days, users were locked out of a game that they paid for due to these server problems, and there was no notice posted.
That's why people start to rely on cracked games: the annoyances of DRM are removed. Users are not forced anymore to constantly keep their CD/DVD in the drive, or to stay online nonstop while playing, or having to deal with backdoor installs which cause havoc. It's a fact that pirates offer the better product; and I'm not even talking about the price difference.