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EA will ban your Origin account. So if you own any other games, you lose them. Parenthetically, this move by them also ensures that everyone who purchased it will lose two games if they charge back the purchase...
How can this be allowed by their merchant agreements with the card companies?
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EA will ban your Origin account. So if you own any other games, you lose them. Parenthetically, this move by them also ensures that everyone who purchased it will lose two games if they charge back the purchase...
How can this be allowed by their merchant agreements with the card companies?
Like the signs you see in parking lots that say "not responsible for lost or stolen items" or "not responsible for damage to your car".
They often are, it just says that to cut down on lawsuits.
(This used to be universally true, though it's become less true over time that they are responsible)
This is a great opportunity for them to turn a shitty situation into one that will awe their customers. They should go overboard in terms of making their existing and potential new customers happy. While this is a good gesture, I don't think it's enough.
> And to get us back in your good graces, we’re going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio. > I know that’s a little contrived – kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something crummy. But we feel bad about what happened. We’re hoping you won’t stay mad and that we’ll be friends again when SimCity is running at 100 percent. To me, this seems insulting. They know most of their…
If you really want to fuck with EA and help people simultaneously, set up a web site that walks people through the process their TOS requires.
Since their own terms require individual arbitration, help individuals start 1.5+ million individual arbitrations. You are, at the very least, guaranteed they will end up paying the fees.
Watch as they discover class action lawsuits weren't so bad a way to resolve mass disputes ...
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EA will ban your Origin account. So if you own any other games, you lose them. Parenthetically, this move by them also ensures that everyone who purchased it will lose two games if they charge back the purchase...
How can this be allowed by their merchant agreements with the card companies?
I forget what it was, but a fairly large business was noted for this - I want to say a motel chain or something.
"And a result of this public outcry, we've decided to remove the DRM that is crippling this otherwise great software." - Said no company ever
I always thought I was not the crazy one that wouldn't buy a game because of the DRM, but I'm finally that guy. I love the Sim City games and remember playing them since the 90's, but I can't pay into a company which preferred the DRM over playability and kept the DRM even when it meant making people wait instead of releasing a patch with more responsible DRM to truly fix the problem.
"And a result of this public outcry, we've decided to remove the DRM that is crippling this otherwise great software." - Said no company ever
Is there any hope that this game will ever be pirated? I understand that there is some type of online-only DRM, but aren't some games like WoW played on private servers? I liked the old SimCity games, but probably won't even bother looking into this one for a while. It's a bit of a different type of game, Diablo 2-esque, but if anyone hasn't tried Path of Exile, I suggest it. A small, independent studio just launched…
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It sometimes happens: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/05/the-witcher-2-patch-re...
Assuming you agree with CD Projekt's approach to gathering piracy statistics, the community rewarded them by pirating the game in extraordinarily large numbers, despite the gesture of good faith http://gamespot.com/news/the-witcher-2-pirated-45-million-ti...
> And to get us back in your good graces, we’re going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio. > I know that’s a little contrived – kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something crummy. But we feel bad about what happened. We’re hoping you won’t stay mad and that we’ll be friends again when SimCity is running at 100 percent. To me, this seems insulting. They know most of their…
Not necessarily.
Earlier this morning I was ready to do whatever it took for a refund. 80 minutes in a queue, only to get kicked out mid tutorial, to have to wait 20 minutes in a queue again...
Whatever they did (well, add more servers), has made the 'server busy' issues basically non existent (I see a status update mid game saying 'Connection Lost', but it has always been restored within moments, and I haven't lost a saved game since).