Uh oh ...
Hot off the heels of Ubisoft's serpentine PC DRM, Electronic Arts has revealed that it doesn't want to be left out of the hate and has jumped into the fire as well. Command & Conquer 4, like Ubi's recent PC games, will require a constant online connection to play. No Internet? No game that you paid for!
EA proudly declared that C&C4 has "NO DRM" but clearly this is not the case. C&C4 will boot you if your connection drops, making it no less insidious than Assassin's Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5. Electronic Arts is trying to justify the DRM by saying the game updates user statistics, but it's a poor excuse given that other games simply wait until a player is back online to update stats.
Very poor form, EA. It seems every time that particular publisher comes close to removing its old reputation as an evil entity, it takes one step backwards into the dark ages. For shame.
EA PC title requires constant internet connection [GI.biz]
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8:00 AM on 03.18.2010
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Hoooooooooooooooooooo!
NO CQ4 FOR YOU!!!
*shakes fist*
This is an RTS so essentially unplayable on consoles as well.
I just don't understand how these companies can do so much wrong, when a company like Valve will let you play on any PC after validation and download even offline. Especially when their business appears to be booming.
DEAR EA, THERE ARE ENOUGH GAMES OUT THAT I DON'T NEED TO PLAY YOURS!
Lets all boycott MMOs too! they require an internet connection, those bastards!
And I don't like that at all, as it seems I'll miss out on a few great games in the near future :-/
If I want to play while travelling then EA says "Go fuck yourself, Customer." If I want to play but have a wireless connection that drops sometimes (not to mention wired connections do too) then EA says "Oh, hey! Customer? You still hanging around here? I thought we told you to get fucked. Seriously, fuck you, Customer! We hate your face. We just want all the dollars we can get. So, now that we have yours, we would like to shit on your head a lot and then have you fuck off to nowhere." That's what they sound like.
That's from July 2009.
Is it any worse requiring constant connection for some games through STEAM?
I trust Steam's authentication servers to remain alive as long as Valve. (During which we'll all have become old. And by Valve I don't mean Gabe.)
EA, on the other hand, I do not. http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/02/17/ea-to-shut-down-online-servers-for-mercenaries-2-and-lord-of-the/
Suck it up. EA's one screwup doesn't hold a candle to their pretty much constant win since 2007-8 or thereabouts.
What happens when they don't support C&C 4 anymore? They you won't be able to play at all.
Congrats EA, you just lost a customer. I'll be playing Warcraft 3 for my RTS fix, let me know if you change your mind.
...also, how fucking dumb do they think we are?
or
"How To Put Piracy Paranoia Over Shafting Customers"
I don't have any interests in RTS games, but this new DRM strategy companies are adopting just seems silly, especially with a single-player game like AC2.
The news is so evil it's worth posting twice
lulz. This is why I can't hate you.
And, I guess it gives publicity to a game no one in their right mind cares about.
Still irritating but less so that the kick in the balls that ubi calls DRM.