Archive for the tag "drm"
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, PC, Piracy | 5 Comments »
Speaking to PaidContent, EA head John Riccitiello has claimed that the controversy surrounding Spore DRM was kicked up by ".2 percent" of users, and that the vast majority of customers ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, Mac, PC, Simulation | 1 Comment »
EA's moved to address comments made by a Spore forum mode regarding banning users that caused "arguments" over DRM issues, saying the person involved doesn't work for the publisher and ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in America, EA, Legalities, Mac, PC | 3 Comments »
A class action has been filed against EA regarding Spore DRM, as reported by GamePolitics.
According to this CNS piece:
Electronic Arts, a leading maker of computer games, defrauds consumers through its ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in America, HD-DVD, PS2, PSN, Sony | 5 Comments »
Despite the fact the US PC movie store clearly states in its terms and conditions that downloaded content stays deleted if you deleted it, Arstechnica's reporting the SCEA is, in ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, Mac, PC, Simulation | 2 Comments »
According to this BigDownload story, Spore producer Lucy Bradshaw has confirmed that EA is to allow multiple accounts per install of the Maxis game.
"We are going to add the ability ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, PC, Simulation | 27 Comments »
Data released by EA has shown that less than 1 percent of Spore buyers have thus far tried to install the game on more than three computers.
The figures have been ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, Mac, PC, Piracy, Simulation | 2 Comments »
Speaking to Gamasutra, EA's said that Spore's DRM system is essentially the same as the disc-and-key method used in previous games.
"EA has not changed our basic DRM copy protection system," ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, PC, Piracy, Simulation | 1 Comment »
Are you getting this yet, EA? CNET's Dave Rosenberg has called Spore's DRM measures "seriously misguided" and "plain-old offensive."
"The video game industry remains one of the last hold-outs in the ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in EA, Hot, Simulation | 9 Comments »
Disgruntled Spore buyers have launched one star Amazon scores at Spore en bloc over the fact you can only install each copy of the game three times.
The title's security system ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in 2K, PC, Shooter | 5 Comments »
Nice surprise for a Friday. According to this post on the 2K forums, all "activation limits" have been lifted from the PC version of BioShock.
"Good news! As promised, all activation ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | 4 Comments »
According to RockPaperShotgun, the latest patch for Warcraft III removes the necessity to have the game's disc sitting in your PC while you're playing. Many PC games are patched in ...
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