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EA’s Riccitiello Talks DRM, Ads and the Economy

AGAIN John Riccitiello missed the mark on why consumers are unhappy with EA's DRM, just as he totally is out in left field over the numbers who are fed up with EA's DRM. We could care less about DRM because real gamers buy their games, don't steal them. Real gamers tell buddies looking over their shoulders as they play the new games to go BUY YOUR OWN. Real gamers that prefer PC Games over console (because lets face facts in a low economy a pc makes sense to spend money on, but consoles don't seeing our lives involve a lot more than just gaming and pc's fit in a money tight household because of this) also cannot afford to have software like EA's games disabling half the hardware on your pc - because it is a pc - your pc, not EA's - that you have to use to do other things besides gaming. The fact is John Riccitiello has just grabbed numbers out of the air and has not looked at the actual numbers of angry pc owners whose had to face hardware replacements and huge pc bills because the family computer ran EA's published games like Mass Affect, Spore, and The Sims 2's last three expansion packs that all have this awful Securom DRM. Every game site that was established for these different games have as many gamers with unuseable or damaged pcs from these games, as they have gamers still playing. So in my book the actual figures of angry gamers with EA is more like 50%, not.2%. John Riccitiello needs to get his head out of the sand and actually visit the game sites. Also on the Spore game site and the Sims 2, you are not allowed to post any of your DRM problems on the main boards or they will ban you. On Spore if you get banned, your game will no longer work if you can not connect to the site. This is EA's idea of apparently keeping their number of troubled gamers actually known, apparently. But they fail to realize we are not pcs, and they cannot stop our mouths from warning others of how EA actually deals with this DRM. Fact is EA does have the games many of us prefer to spend our money on, but because of the DRM and our experience with it, we'd be idiots to buy these games.