In light of thousands upon thousands of irate DRM-hating gamers, Electronic Arts has announced that it’ll be issuing a patch to the game that’ll allow people to de-authorize certain computers.
Currently, the game is only able to be activated on up to three machines. If you replace one of those machines, you’ll have to call up EA, proof of purchase at hand, and plead your case to be able to activate it again. Under the new system, you’ll be able to deactivate certain machines, similar to how iTunes works, and activate new ones.
The patch will apparently be coming in the “near future,” although no specific date has been given.
Not good enough. I’m still not buying.
Until SecuROM is totally gone, I won’t be buying this or any other game sporting it. As much of a pain as Steam was when HL2 came out, at least it is transparent and is actually a useful tool for me to use and is easily removed. I’ve actually grown fond of it. SecuROM is a hijacker, and I’ll kill it anyway I can.
I’ve never pirated a game before in my life, but if this goes on for very much longer, I’m considering torrenting a copy just to bolster the pirate statistics going around the web.
It is interesting that EA still doesn’t get it, making paid users fell like criminals. I talk about this and other DRM and Torrent news on my show today. Thanks for the post…
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Another liberal maggot scheme!!! Now, it’s infesting our games. For what… a 1% sales loss. EA can you tell me what the difference is between 5 and 6 installs? or maybe 6 or 7? From a customer who supposedly owns the game?
Will GameStop take my game in for trade now? I guess I lost that property right to recapture some asset $ wealth!!!!!!! (It’s called capitalism, buy and sell assets) Do I really own it or what?
I won’t buy another DRM game!!!! EVER!!!!