Official Survey: They're going to sell individual downloads!?WTF?!

[Panthpirate]

I'm an honest person, so I always buy games legally... that is, if they're not EA games. If it has an EA label on it, I'm off to isohunt. 

[farrahrani]

I bought all my games up till now, but with that securom thing, it doesn't make sense to screw up my pc, so yeah, it's off to bittorrent for me too. 

[Dr House]

I stopped buying when Bon Voyage was released with the securom Before that i was even proud to fork EA my money but securom nailed it down. Suckers! Now i arrr it all. EA won't get anymore dime from me huh.
A good tip with any new arred version, new torrent or crack, whatever: wait a week or two checking the thread for the feedback to see if it's working okay and that there's nothing wrong Finding different versions/releases helps a lot too, just incase it fails.

[missangelica]

I understand why people say they stopped buying the games because the inclusion of Securom in BV but Securom was in the H&M SP, Celebration SP, Deluxe, and Pet Stories before BV came out.  I guess that fact is easy to overlook given the mixture of response the community has to them and with the SPs you're still running on the latest expansion's exe.

[Paden]

Really? It was in Celebration? News to me...

[calalily]

It wasn't in Celebration Missangelica - it got put into H&M but wasn't an issue if you had Pets installed (as you never ran the disk to play the game).  It wasn't until the little Securom .exe was activated in BV (with the BV.exe) that most people noticed their issues. 

[missangelica]

It wasn't in Celebration Missangelica - it got put into H&M but wasn't an issue if you had Pets installed (as you never ran the disk to play the game).  It wasn't until the little Securom .exe was activated in BV (with the BV.exe) that most people noticed their issues. 

Ok, I'll take your word for it but then my memory must be wrong and I don't like that.     I was affected by Securom because I did try to run the game off of H&M SP instead of the last expansion and my computer died shortly after.  It's still dead even after spending several hundred bucks on trying to repair it.  :/

[calalily]

Ok, I'll take your word for it but then my memory must be wrong and I don't like that.     I was affected by Securom because I did try to run the game off of H&M SP instead of the last expansion and my computer died shortly after.  It's still dead even after spending several hundred bucks on trying to repair it.  :/

Ah see - if you tried to run off H&M that's what did it - and once it gets on there, it does what it likes.  God I hate Securom.  And hey - lots of people were saying Celebrations had it (credible sounding people) but it didn't.  One mistake ever - we can deal with that. 

[Dr House]

MissA, when BV was released with the securom, i had previously bought only one SP: celebration. No securom shipped with it, the first SP with securom was H&M. Celebration decieved me so i hadn't bought another SP but i didn't arrr the rest, as i really didn't want to arrr them (since i was buying the EPs). When BV got out with the suckurom i was terribly pissed off by EA and decided to stop buying the Sims and arrred BV and started arrring the SPs soon after with the argument that if i'm arrring the sims's EPs, let's arrr the rest. A way for me to tell EA to fuck off, kinda. So i'm not overlooking anything lol 

[Markus]

Yeah...I ran H&M off the H&M disc too as I didn't have Seasons at the time. 

[dorquemada]

I'm not surprised about them selling individual items at all - I'm surprised they thought it up only now, after so many time since Sims 2 was launched. It's as if the recent pirates vs paysites ruckus gave the corporate pigs the idea - like, "...you mean there are consumers out there who would pay for a hair or a terlet? 'tis a joke, right? No? *cue SFX - dollar signs in eyes, lound 'ka-ching!' sound* ...oh. We...see. Hee. Heeeee. Hee-heeeee-heeeee!"

Although, given how EA corporate pigs treat their customers, it's entirely possible they never knew about the trend (why bother what the sheep think?)  until something rubbed their snouts right on it.

[Dr House]

Well technically it's not the first time. They already did it with Sims Online, which had a lot of success lol
I advise anyone to read the MATY's thread on the sold exclusive items, You'll see how well done these items are! Lot of lulz

[WedgewoodBlue]

Twice now my game computer has died because of Securom. I now have the Arr'd versions from BV on up. Like some others here, EA will never see another dime from me.
I wish I had saved the link, but sadly I did not.......I was reading this post at the BBS (Not that I go there, I just hit the link in another post I was reading) and I was a tad bit furious over the person's point of view. In it, they claimed that Pirates were solely responsible for EA's having put Securom on their game discs. WTF?? The games were being pirated before BV......
Now this is only my point of view, but as long as people continue to purchase Sims2 products that have Securom on them, the blame lies solely with the purchaser.

I have recently met someone who did purchase the store items, and installed the store software on their computer. Lo and behold their comp died, and they had to format. Securom could not be removed, I don't know why, sorry.
But for those who did become customers of EA's store, a particularly rotten piece of Securom was downloaded onto their machines.

It's all fine and good to be a loyal customer of a reputable company, but again (and only my opinion) EA has long since passed into the category of disreputable for me. I'm a customer, not a criminal, so don't treat me like I am a criminal. And for the love of God, at the very least, I expect to be kissed before I get fucked.

[JFederated]

Games were being pirated 20 fricken years ago.  What happened in the interim?  Billion dollar industry.

It's game companies that are driving away customers, not pirates.

[Sim_Outlaw]

Games were being pirated 20 fricken years ago.  What happened in the interim?  Billion dollar industry.

It's game companies that are driving away customers, not pirates.

You are talking to someone who knows all about Pirates and software. I never said securom would stop pirates. You can give me a legal copy of any game running securom and I will have it cracked within hours. I said securom is not a big deal when it comes to removing it and using a no cd crack.

Companies will continue to waste money on protection and cause some of you to have moderate issues. Securom is not going to burn up your computer or cause you to lose your job like some of the crap on simmers against securom. There are some security issue concerns but Sony fixes these issues. They have to be stupid and put some kind of protection for hackers to be able to have fun. games would be boring to a hacker if there was no protection.

Anyone with and decent knowledge of how securom works and how a computer works should just fall down laughing at this.

I could careless about Securom! I just remove it and thats that!