Sonic Doctor said:
Yes they would lose paying customers, but not enough to matter.
All I can do is hope that it is indeed enough, because when enough people give in is how consumers as a whole get trampled.
Sonic Doctor said:
I know there are plenty of people that play EA games, like me, that can easily put up with what they do.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Sonic Doctor said:
Fair enough
Sonic Doctor said:
and people that think they deserve to play games the way they want instead of how they were designed
And why is that? Exactly what harm am I doing to a game by modifying it to be more fun for me? So long as I'm not reselling it, profitting from it, or claiming the modified form is entirely my own creation, how does it harm the creator? I was unaware the developers somehow know what I like better than I do myself. The odds a publisher will make exactly the experience I want are slim-to-nil, but what they make might be close enough that I can turn it into a more perfect experience for myself. I will never buy into the idea that a game is a service or a rental or a license instead of a product.
Sonic Doctor said:
, than having a little inconvenience of waiting a little bit as they fix the problem and get the DRM to work.
Waiting a little bit, waiting even one single microsecond, that product is not functional(and therefore arguably fraudulently advertised and sold) as was agreed when the client paid money for it.
Sonic Doctor said:
I'm all for a war against piracy even if there are friendly casualties blown by the wayside.
People like you are the reason for things like minimum wage, workplace safety regulations, consumer rights&recourse, and so on; the kind of intentionally-isolated-view who couldn't care less, or worse pretends that the misfortunes of others aren't real, until you're the one being kicked around.I'm absolutely aghast that you'd consider committing fraud (You're 'friendly casualties' who will be cheated out of a game they paid their money for) an acceptable behavior by a corporation, or anyone. I'd guarantee that if you were the one who's game was disabled by a faulty piracy-flag, accused of being a pirate when you sought technical support, and had your Origin account and all the games on it locked because of it, you'd be crying bloody murder over that injustice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
Sonic Doctor said:
Fair enough
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Don't have a demo to test a game, too bad, look at reviews and let's plays to make your decision, or pay and live with the purchase. Don't have the internet to handle the game, too bad, wait till you do or find another game.
Absolutely unacceptable; how is it fair/right/good/beneficial that the consumers, who DO pay for the product and keep the company in business, suffer for the acts of the pirates? This is like saying it's acceptable to assault one of your friends so long as you yourself were attacked by someone earlier.
A let's play, much less a review (and that's before even considering corruption) is wholly insufficient to emulate the actual experience of playing a specific game.
Wait till you have internet? You can't be serious. That will never happen in rural areas until/unless it becomes legislated (as was done with phone lines), and even then it would takes years, if not decades, to construct the infrastructure. And that's not even accounting for things like frequent travelers. And if this practice isn't stopped dead in its tracks, soon the 'other game' possibility wont exist for those people.
Sonic Doctor said:
I seriously don't care if I'm viewed as some mustache twirling bad guy "ruining" fun and "consumer rights", as long as I know I'm on the right side.
1. No one ever thinks they're on the wrong side.
2. How is what you're suggesting not 'ruining consumer rights' then? What's the line between acceptable/unacceptable? What recourse would a consumer have over being explicitly robbed?
3. If you get your way, you entirely deserve what's coming; publishers won't stop where they are now, as companies like EA will do as they have always done: they will keep pushing exactly how far they can exploit people like you.
Sonic Doctor said:
Come on EA, don't falter to the silly complaints.
Whether or not EA's launch of the Simcity is ultimately determined to be fraud or not from a legal perspective, the allegation itself is a pretty damn serious matter. Serious enough that people are taking it to their banks and implicitly accusing EA of such by instigating back-charges.
Sonic Doctor said:
Channel your wrongly demonized outside and practices, while nurturing that good at heart core that they are to blind to see.
The only thing EA want's to nourish is their bank account, and they will happily abuse your faith in them to do it.
