Writin_Reg's Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.comuser/238285/comments http://seekingalpha.com/article/103543-electronic-arts-what-is-the-problem?source=feed#comment-297550 297550
It could have the best games in the business, but if Securom 7 is on it - like all EA games have since last summer (2007) and you get bit by the nasty side of this draconian DRM, you are going to avoid that companies games like a plague.

Myself, I love EA's games. My now grown family loves EA games and have been buying their games and investing in their stocks since the early 90's - then they switched to Sony DADC rootkit-like DRM and damaged my pc. EA's reply is denial, denial, denial. So they are being sued by not one but three different lawsuits due to this Securom 7 and the damage it does to pcs that EA refuses to acknowledge. In fact their CEO had the nerve to call all it's buying, money spending consumer base pirates if they complained. Like we should just dismiss the fact their DRM borks new pcs, and say thank you - may I have another.

No thank you!!! I love your games EA, but don't like you very much and can't stand your DRM. So I'm not about to buy your products - anymore, and I sold your stock - thank goodness back while it was still in the high 40's. Oh and EA, I'm not alone. There are many of us casual gamers following suit.

Simply put, you want us back - drop Securom 7, but rest assured we are not going away - we just aren't buying your products, your stocks, or you BS explanations and excuses. What's more we are many and we tell our many friends.

That Mr. Everiss is what is wrong with EA and erts stock.]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:43:02 -0500
It could have the best games in the business, but if Securom 7 is on it - like all EA games have since last summer (2007) and you get bit by the nasty side of this draconian DRM, you are going to avoid that companies games like a plague.

Myself, I love EA's games. My now grown family loves EA games and have been buying their games and investing in their stocks since the early 90's - then they switched to Sony DADC rootkit-like DRM and damaged my pc. EA's reply is denial, denial, denial. So they are being sued by not one but three different lawsuits due to this Securom 7 and the damage it does to pcs that EA refuses to acknowledge. In fact their CEO had the nerve to call all it's buying, money spending consumer base pirates if they complained. Like we should just dismiss the fact their DRM borks new pcs, and say thank you - may I have another.

No thank you!!! I love your games EA, but don't like you very much and can't stand your DRM. So I'm not about to buy your products - anymore, and I sold your stock - thank goodness back while it was still in the high 40's. Oh and EA, I'm not alone. There are many of us casual gamers following suit.

Simply put, you want us back - drop Securom 7, but rest assured we are not going away - we just aren't buying your products, your stocks, or you BS explanations and excuses. What's more we are many and we tell our many friends.

That Mr. Everiss is what is wrong with EA and erts stock.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/100227-eas-riccitiello-talks-drm-ads-and-the-economy?source=feed#comment-286411 286411 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:20 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/97297-ea-displeases-customers-with-poor-drm-disclosure?source=feed#comment-265276 265276
EA incorporated Securom & in use in Early summer of 2007, sending shock waves through the Sims 2 Community in EA's The Sims Division with their Bon Voyage Sims 2 Expansion pack. They had also used Securom on two Sims 2 Stuff packs, but because stuff packs do not require their disks to play the game, Securom was not activated. Expansion packs on the other hand DO require the activation of Securom, and in activating the game, a lot of Sims players immediately noticed pc problems - and almost always it was on brand new computers. Getting a 150 dollar bill at the pc shop on your brand new computer tends to make Gamers angry. Finding out that your disabled equipment, including firewalls, antivirus protection, other software, and components like dvd-roms and printers failing to function all because of a thirty dollar expansion pack that installed this third party software on your pc and caused this damage makes people furious. Go to the website reclaimyourgame.com and you can see first hand some of the many gamers stories with this horrible DRM. It makes the Sony BMG music debacle look like a walk in the park in comparison.
Spore on the other hand and also Mass Effect also owned by EA, has Securom 7 with the addition of online activation and limited installations. Believe me with EA games reputation for buggy games, limiting the activations is outright thief, as it is a known factor that any changes a user makes in the Operating System or pc components, kills your activation on that pc. In other words Securom tells the user they are using a different PC when they are not just because they upgraded a video card or their anti-virus. Many new players exhausted the 3 activations before they even got to play Spore. EA's help line also charges the customer absurd cost, and unlike EA told you, they do not easily give out new activations. If you do get one, your phone bill will tell you how that activation just cost you an additional ten dollars. EA thinks nothing of denying your request and tells owners they wiill have to buy another copy to play the game.

The Spore site had so many Securom complaints from disabled pc parts, that the moderators started warning people they would be banned if they posted any more Securom problems on the help boards. This is how EA treats their customers. You make it sound like a walk in the park, you really need to be educated. This DRM is outright dangerous to PC gaming and does not stop pirates at all. All it does stop is gamers playing that game or any other and from reselling the game because EA will not activate a game not bought from them even though they state otherwise in the Eula. EA has not even seen the lawsuite from the Sim 2 players and we are not settling for anything less than the end of Securom's use in our games.]]> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:04:39 -0400
EA incorporated Securom & in use in Early summer of 2007, sending shock waves through the Sims 2 Community in EA's The Sims Division with their Bon Voyage Sims 2 Expansion pack. They had also used Securom on two Sims 2 Stuff packs, but because stuff packs do not require their disks to play the game, Securom was not activated. Expansion packs on the other hand DO require the activation of Securom, and in activating the game, a lot of Sims players immediately noticed pc problems - and almost always it was on brand new computers. Getting a 150 dollar bill at the pc shop on your brand new computer tends to make Gamers angry. Finding out that your disabled equipment, including firewalls, antivirus protection, other software, and components like dvd-roms and printers failing to function all because of a thirty dollar expansion pack that installed this third party software on your pc and caused this damage makes people furious. Go to the website reclaimyourgame.com and you can see first hand some of the many gamers stories with this horrible DRM. It makes the Sony BMG music debacle look like a walk in the park in comparison.
Spore on the other hand and also Mass Effect also owned by EA, has Securom 7 with the addition of online activation and limited installations. Believe me with EA games reputation for buggy games, limiting the activations is outright thief, as it is a known factor that any changes a user makes in the Operating System or pc components, kills your activation on that pc. In other words Securom tells the user they are using a different PC when they are not just because they upgraded a video card or their anti-virus. Many new players exhausted the 3 activations before they even got to play Spore. EA's help line also charges the customer absurd cost, and unlike EA told you, they do not easily give out new activations. If you do get one, your phone bill will tell you how that activation just cost you an additional ten dollars. EA thinks nothing of denying your request and tells owners they wiill have to buy another copy to play the game.

The Spore site had so many Securom complaints from disabled pc parts, that the moderators started warning people they would be banned if they posted any more Securom problems on the help boards. This is how EA treats their customers. You make it sound like a walk in the park, you really need to be educated. This DRM is outright dangerous to PC gaming and does not stop pirates at all. All it does stop is gamers playing that game or any other and from reselling the game because EA will not activate a game not bought from them even though they state otherwise in the Eula. EA has not even seen the lawsuite from the Sim 2 players and we are not settling for anything less than the end of Securom's use in our games.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/95878-ultizen-s-lan-haiwen-discusses-the-latest-gaming-industry-developments?source=feed#comment-256933 256933
So I say welcome to a new game maker, and as a pc gamer I do hope they also work on pc games, but I implore them consider the consumer because we will no longer buy even the best game out there if it has DRM that damages our pc components and drives and security programs.]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:27:46 -0400
So I say welcome to a new game maker, and as a pc gamer I do hope they also work on pc games, but I implore them consider the consumer because we will no longer buy even the best game out there if it has DRM that damages our pc components and drives and security programs.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/91719-will-ea-change-the-gaming-industry-s-revenue-model?source=feed#comment-235709 235709 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:39 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/89109-electronic-arts-growth-is-coming?source=feed#comment-223736 223736
Thank you]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:34:44 -0400
Thank you]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/89109-electronic-arts-growth-is-coming?source=feed#comment-223734 223734
You get no help from EA other than the cost of a phone call to the tech help, a long wait on line, and in my case I got hung up on.

What I see for stockholders and people considering Erts stocks added to their portfolio, is a lot of trouble down the line when they do get all those gamers you speculate about with these 2 Online games, and they have some of the problems I encountered with my pc. Never mind the fact you have to reformat your harddrive, or live with it. It's your dollars people, because it's surely not going to be mine. At least not for the long haul anyway.]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:23:56 -0400
You get no help from EA other than the cost of a phone call to the tech help, a long wait on line, and in my case I got hung up on.

What I see for stockholders and people considering Erts stocks added to their portfolio, is a lot of trouble down the line when they do get all those gamers you speculate about with these 2 Online games, and they have some of the problems I encountered with my pc. Never mind the fact you have to reformat your harddrive, or live with it. It's your dollars people, because it's surely not going to be mine. At least not for the long haul anyway.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/88977-report-from-inside-electronic-arts-shareholders-meeting?source=feed#comment-222867 222867
I would disagree with that CEO, EA does not listen to their gaming communities. Instead they bury complaints about the games and Securom from consumers off the main boards of each forum. I know at the Sims 2 board that if you post on their General forum about Securom, even to ask a question, the Simmasters on that site threaten to ban the posters for doing so. I have heard the same thing is happening on the Mass Effect game forums.
Many of EA's customers that have been with this companies games for as long as ten or more years recieve hardly more than grief from EA. I was even hung up on for calling for tech support for my own pc when Securom disabled my dvd-rom and one of my two firewalls among other things, on my pc. I got told by a very rude young man at EA that "Securom doesn't do that" in a loud and gruff manner, then he slammed the phone down. In the end a technician at a pc shop which reformatting my pc, confirmed that Securom did do that. EA was no help to my technician either, as they told him they did not have a tool to remove Securom from my pc, which was why there had to be a reformat to begin with. It does not uninstall with unstallation of EA's software.

I just know one thing a lot of customers are awfully angry with EA over this move to Securom, and main kernal memory leaks from broken coding in games that are never fixed. To add to insult EA has even began using an even harsher form of Securom in this new seasons game that give customers a limit on the amount of times they can activate their games, and even their offline games must have an internet connection to activate. Customers are not happy and angry customers will stop buying EA products in the long run.]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:04:36 -0400
I would disagree with that CEO, EA does not listen to their gaming communities. Instead they bury complaints about the games and Securom from consumers off the main boards of each forum. I know at the Sims 2 board that if you post on their General forum about Securom, even to ask a question, the Simmasters on that site threaten to ban the posters for doing so. I have heard the same thing is happening on the Mass Effect game forums.
Many of EA's customers that have been with this companies games for as long as ten or more years recieve hardly more than grief from EA. I was even hung up on for calling for tech support for my own pc when Securom disabled my dvd-rom and one of my two firewalls among other things, on my pc. I got told by a very rude young man at EA that "Securom doesn't do that" in a loud and gruff manner, then he slammed the phone down. In the end a technician at a pc shop which reformatting my pc, confirmed that Securom did do that. EA was no help to my technician either, as they told him they did not have a tool to remove Securom from my pc, which was why there had to be a reformat to begin with. It does not uninstall with unstallation of EA's software.

I just know one thing a lot of customers are awfully angry with EA over this move to Securom, and main kernal memory leaks from broken coding in games that are never fixed. To add to insult EA has even began using an even harsher form of Securom in this new seasons game that give customers a limit on the amount of times they can activate their games, and even their offline games must have an internet connection to activate. Customers are not happy and angry customers will stop buying EA products in the long run.]]>