EA Says Sims 3 DRM-Free
EA may have learned its lesson with DRM and SecuROM (and limited authentication keys, the list of offenses could probably go on...). Because of feedback from its previous "overly invasive" Digital Rights Management protections, EA will not package DRM into the upcoming release of The Sims 3, opting instead for a serial code included with all disc-based copies of the game. The solution resembles the protection used for The Sims 2.
No online authentication or feeling like you've rented software from a bully.
EA Sims division director Rod Humble was, well, humble about it:
"We feel like this is a good, time-proven solution that makes it easy for you to play the game without DRM methods that feel overly invasive or leave you concerned about authorization server access in the distant future,"
Common sense! Is that what I hear? Sims fans should celebrate by buying the game when it's released for PC, OS X, iPhone/iPod Touch and mobile devices on June 2.
EA Releasing Sims 3 DRM-Free [Gamasutra]
tiny dancer
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 27 March 2009
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See, told you that our fight against EA with Spore would show them who the real boss is, power to the pirates!!
Original source: http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem.jsp?item=-608201177
That is NOT true, Sims 3 will still have DRM. They are not using ONLINE DRM but will still be using a disk based securerom, which I have anecdotally heard to be just as problematic as it's online version.
What I have found sad is the publishers won the PR battle. They changed the conversation where our online news sources our reporting the lack of online authentication as being DRM free software.
Starforce anyone?
[Cut the exclamation points ;)]
I thought we didn't matter, Tiny and Dawdle have been relentless in saying people like myself and many hundreds of thousands of others don't matter. In fact posting goading articles numerous times, funny to see them absolutely unequivocally incorrect, but then it was obvious they were, so it isn't really a philosophical or worthwhile intellectual victory worth gloating about, as stating the obvious never is.
They've backtracked, not completely, but they're solidly on the ropes and they are taking serious notice of our grievances. They might have earned a purchase.
They'll have a purchase of RA3 and Uprising if they bother to get EA games on Steam in Europe. Until then my downloaded versions work fine.
DRM-free? Far from it. Sims 2 definitely had DRM...back when it came out it took people a while to figure out how to make a working game of the copy.
Nice double-talk. Nowhere do they say "NO DRM". They only refute using Spore's flavour of DRM.
"We feel like this is a good, time-proven solution to killing puppies without puppy-killing methods that seem overly invasive."
I don't trust EA and I never will.
People not buying it and telling them why is why they put in less heavy DRM. People pirating it is why they still put in any.
@Neo,
Cut the persecution complex. No one here encourages bad DRM. In fact, DRM comes up so rarely I can't understand how see how anything we say on the matter can be construed as "relentless." The last time I even mentioned the term DRM was a tongue-in-cheek jab about a game that didn't have it in the first place, and was still pirated like mad. This makes you sound like a fanboy accusing a site of being "bias!!!"
Everyone wants to see good developers get the money they deserve, but I honestly don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, and we're not going to force you to buy a game if it goes against your principles. If you want to steal because a game is violating your rights, go right ahead.