There's no excuse for DRM.

what happens if the net is not avail.? what happens when EA decides to stop supporting the game?

---

Yeah, well you enjoy your DRM then.  I'll stick to using game cracks so that I don't have to use something I paid good money for the way some suit thinks I should.

---

i bought that sid meiers pirates game when it came out 4-5 years ago
it was the remake one for the PC

i figured it wasn't popular enough to get pirated so i'd preorder and buy it. they were cool and gave me a collector's edition for the same price. brought it home and installed it but it kept bitching about a nero burning rom .DLL file. found out that the DRM software in there didn't like the fact that i had CD burning software installed on my computer even though nero will not break copyright schemes on media. so i figured i could uninstall software that i needed to use just to play a game or i could take the game back. i brought it back and got WoW instead.

about a year later someone had cracked the game and uploaded it so i downloaded it and installed it. worked like a fucking charm.


the point of the story is that DRM does not stop piracy. it hurts sales and costs the company money to license and implement such technologies. and if these DRM schemes ruin your PC due to their invasiveness there is rarely any tech support provided.
the guys who download the game illegally have a better time than those who bought it legally. read some of brad wardell's blog posts, hes the CEO of stardock software. he complains about the DRM on the games he buys too. ran into a similar problem where a game just wouldn't work because of the DRM.

pirates remove the limitations while people who stick with DRM are limited in how they can play the game.

---