Comments on: @ Media & Money: EA’s Riccitiello: Last Year For ‘Offline-Only’ Games http://paidcontent.org/2008/10/14/419-media-money-eas-riccitiello-last-year-for-offline-only-games/ The economics of digital content Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul in Chicago http://paidcontent.org/2008/10/14/419-media-money-eas-riccitiello-last-year-for-offline-only-games/#comment-64149 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:48:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/10/14/419-media-money-eas-riccitiello-last-year-for-offline-only-games/#comment-64149 Too bad EA hasn't fully embraced trusting its customers more. Another blog noted Pete Hines has announced that Fallout 3 will ship with little to no DRM whatsoever because they want to trust their paying customers. See http://www.aeropause.com/2008/10/fallout-3-to-ship-on-pc-minus-drm/

If you want to pressure EA games to unbundle DRM and SecuROM, there’s a campaign that just started to refuse to buy EA games until they remove DRM and SecuROM from their software. Check it out at http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/ea-games-without-drm-and-secu-rom

Figure each game costs $50 minimum, and if 500 people sign on, that would be $25,000 in lost revenue. For its loyal customer base, secretly adding DRM and SecuROM in their install is just not the way to treat us.

The three issues are that DRM and SecuRom are being installed without the user realizing it; DRM limits the number of computers you can install it on; and SecuROM has been affecting some people’s computers to the point that they needed to re-format their hard drive and uninstall the game to get their computer returning to normal.

And it takes just a minute to sign up. You can even sign anonymously.

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