When World Adventures point blank refused to install, despite all the poking and prodding I did, I just gave up and trashed the whole thing. You're right. It's nowhere near a good enough game to put up with that crap.

Indeed. Their double-standards makes me want to puke.

Spot the Twat was just hilarious though...

Do what EA do with their communities, and just leave it for dead.

Maybe. Sleep her way to the top AND drive everyone away sounds more like it.

I'm getting a "No such minisite owner - FaronDesign" message.

Blargh. GTA IV for PC is a big fat DO NOT WANT. It's a diabolical port. In fact, it's actually almost worse than anything EA has ever put out; and at least they aren't bribing reviewers to pretend their turd is shiny flawless perfection.

I totally and utterly agree. It was a lack of quality and trust that almost killed off the consoles and actually bringing those things to the table that saved them. A console crash could be prevented if the big three were to impose some degree of their own quality control on third party games, so we don't get barely playable "Imagine: Crap!". As for PC, it's the whole criminalisation of the consumer and extreme control and paranoia which doesn't seem likely to change. For the companies that are giving us this crap, things will catch up with them soon because you can't treat people like crap forever; one day they fight back.

And yes, I agree with this. The companies that actually bothered to care will be saved by good ol' Karma. As for the others: Good riddance.

Having never really paid much attention to Steam, I was wondering what exactly it was that kept some people away from it. That's interesting, and indeed concerning. I shall continue to stay away from it.

Since when has EA ever been even remotely subliminal? Unless, of course, the real-world adverts in TS3 is their attempt at doing so.

Probably. MaxoidDrea has flip flopped so many times, she could give politicians a decent run of their money.

Seems that EA really are in bed with paysites. I mean, never mind the people who SELL the "world's leading interactive entertainment software company's" intellectual property, let's go after the people who merely provide mediafiles links and actually make it work!

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,13946.0.html

Did he honestly think that excuse was going to fly? What does he expect to say after the next inevitable coconut exposé?

Hm. There's been a spate of PDF attacks on several sites this week. Even Wikipedia came up with this one. Still, that's interesting how that site got hacked. Desperate bastards.

There's another game, which I can't remember the name of at this moment, that had no copy protection whatsoever on the disc and was quite successful. Rather than trying to treat everyone as a potential criminal, they instead rewarded their customers with much success. Basically, legitimate copies contained codes and stuff, so they could get DLC and things like that.

Karma. That's all I'm going to say.

It just speaks volumes about EA, a company I have stopped even considering purchasing from. I'm so glad their finances are crashing and burninating. Never have I seen something that deserves to die more.