EA has been SUED 5 TIMES MERRY CHRISTMAS EA MUHAHA ARR!

[Paden]

Pregnant women and women after menopause have no periods. What is your point, that you don't like the extra one shown here?

[Nightmare]

Lawsuits are finally fucking goddamn Securom: http://store.steampowered.com/news/2116/

Those EA games are launched on STEAM DRM only http://forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=660050&forum=22&sp=120 (Chris Priestly post)

So, if things go this way. We might see The Sims 3 without SuckyRom 


ETA: got it, Keirra, thx


to grammar morons: Que os den por el culo

[keirra]

*sigh*

Seriously, Nightmare, must you post the HUGE bolded words? If you want to be taken seriously, you're doing it wrong.

ETA: Much better. Now, we can see what your post was really about. 

[Kazzandra]

So, if things go this way. We might see The Sims 3 without SuckyRom 

Yes, but Steam only allows one registration per game and it it only available in North America. 

[Wanderlust]

This is funny, and if EA goes bankrupt or whatever, then I'm seriously not going to feel sorry for them at all.  They brought this upon themselves; greed could be their fatal flaw.

[Nightmare]

So, if things go this way. We might see The Sims 3 without SuckyRom 

Yes, but Steam only allows one registration per game and it it only available in North America. 

A Bioware guy said that they are looking into expanding into more territories http://forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=660050&forum=22&sp=165 

Valve is gonna make so much money from Securom haters... 

[Yaardarm Monkey II]

Lawsuits are finally fucking goddamn Securom: http://store.steampowered.com/news/2116/

    Are we looking at the same thing?  What does Steam have to do with "Lawsuits are finally fucking goddamn Securom"

Steam Launches Hit PC Games from EA
December 19, 2008, 12:05 pm - Shawn Zabecki - Product Release
Spore, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and More Available Now

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 18, 2008. Just in time for the holidays, Valve announced that, Spore™, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™, Mass Effect®, Need for Speed™ Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in North America via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.

[SoggyFox]

Steam is effectively a -different- drm method than securom.  Doesn't mean they are ditching securom, this might be an additional measure for them, but it is promising.

[Pescado]

Steam is an even more invasive form of spyware than SecuROM is: It spies on you EVERY time you fire up the game, and monitors all of your playing habits. This part isn't even a SECRET! The only reason it is more popularly accepted is because it dresses up all these spying features as "Friendly" and is less concerned with keeping you from playing the game at all than it is with spying on you while you do it. And forcing you to have the latest updates, whether you want them or not, refusing to let you run the game if you refuse to drink their kool-aid. Realize of, course, that anything which forcibly modifies and runs executable code on your system is not merely spyware, but a flat out trojan rootkit. DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID.

[Kragey]

Steam is an even more invasive form of spyware than SecuROM is: It spies on you EVERY time you fire up the game, and monitors all of your playing habits. This part isn't even a SECRET! The only reason it is more popularly accepted is because it dresses up all these spying features as "Friendly" and is less concerned with keeping you from playing the game at all than it is with spying on you while you do it. And forcing you to have the latest updates, whether you want them or not, refusing to let you run the game if you refuse to drink their kool-aid. Realize of, course, that anything which forcibly modifies and runs executable code on your system is not merely spyware, but a flat out trojan rootkit. DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID.

My brother has Steam on his computer, but I never paid any attention to it, since I have no clue what its point it. That's...really frightening.

[Piratey]

Steam is an even more invasive form of spyware than SecuROM is: It spies on you EVERY time you fire up the game, and monitors all of your playing habits. This part isn't even a SECRET! The only reason it is more popularly accepted is because it dresses up all these spying features as "Friendly" and is less concerned with keeping you from playing the game at all than it is with spying on you while you do it. And forcing you to have the latest updates, whether you want them or not, refusing to let you run the game if you refuse to drink their kool-aid. Realize of, course, that anything which forcibly modifies and runs executable code on your system is not merely spyware, but a flat out trojan rootkit. DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID.

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.

[SoggyFox]

I didn't know that, Pes.  I have steam, but only so I could get Eve cheaper.  But I never play anything through Steam.

[Missbonbon]

Steam is an even more invasive form of spyware than SecuROM is: It spies on you EVERY time you fire up the game, and monitors all of your playing habits. This part isn't even a SECRET! The only reason it is more popularly accepted is because it dresses up all these spying features as "Friendly" and is less concerned with keeping you from playing the game at all than it is with spying on you while you do it. And forcing you to have the latest updates, whether you want them or not, refusing to let you run the game if you refuse to drink their kool-aid. Realize of, course, that anything which forcibly modifies and runs executable code on your system is not merely spyware, but a flat out trojan rootkit. DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID.

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.

My room mate had used Steam once. I can't remember the game, but it was only able to run in Steam, and he forgot his Steam password. It literally took them a month to send him his password.

[Mheyin]

I have friends that use Steam. I avoid it like the goddamn plague.

[Darqstar]

Our local "I build computers for people in my spare time" guy will not do a reformat, reload for free if you have steam on your computer, because he claims it can completely bork your system.  He warns people that he won't service if they install Steam at least, but seeing that he actually doesn't mind fixing borked computers, I would say that Steam rates lower on my list of "things I want on my computer" than securom. 

Of course, now that we're going to have Sims3 with MOAR advertising, there's going to be something nasty in the software, just to make sure we get the latest ads!