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This isn't the case here. The game does significant processing on their servers, to make it useless as soon as they turn their servers off, which AFAIK they hav

This isn't the case here. The game does significant processing on their servers, to make it useless as soon as they turn their servers off, which AFAIK they haven't promised to keep up any certain amount of time.

jfim 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification; it's pretty awful of them to have them have this copy protection mechanism and fail to allocate enough server resources for people to be able to play the game they legitimately purchased. It sounds as if some random MBAs said that they really need that server-side undefeatable copy protection, then balked at the price of actually purchasing enough resources for it and decided to skimp on that.
- Cardeck1 14y ago
  No, it actually doesn't sound like some random MBAs.Are you one of those guys that blame MBAs for everything?The truth is we don't know what actually happened there.We'll have to wait for EA's reply on this one.It will be hard for them to recover after a huge mistake/strategy like this.
  - Karunamon 14y ago
    >We'll have to wait for EA's reply on this one. If EA's usual response to criticism means anything, we'll be waiting a loooooong time... >It will be hard for them to recover after a huge mistake/strategy like this. You're kidding, right? They'll just release Call of Modern Madden 5: Battlefield Part 2 and the fanboys will eat it up, horrid DRM and microtransactions and all.
    - Fargren 14y ago
      If the reviews and reaction to the last Medal of Honor are anything to go by, people are finally getting tired of that old rehashed formula. The next CoD may not be as successful as the previous installments were.
  - bsg75 14y ago
    It does. Do game developers implement DRM when not required to by the bean counters?
- fooey 14y ago
  "fail" makes it sound accidental I'd put good odds that server allocation was a very high level decision balancing the expected backlash They knew Amazon rating / word of mouth is going to put a massive hit on the LaunchDay+1 sales anyways, so what do they care if it actually works once you've handed over your cash?

jfim 14y ago

Thanks for the clarification; it's pretty awful of them to have them have this copy protection mechanism and fail to allocate enough server resources for people to be able to play the game they legitimately purchased. It sounds as if some random MBAs said that they really need that server-side undefeatable copy protection, then balked at the price of actually purchasing enough resources for it and decided to skimp on that.

Cardeck1 14y ago
No, it actually doesn't sound like some random MBAs.Are you one of those guys that blame MBAs for everything?The truth is we don't know what actually happened there.We'll have to wait for EA's reply on this one.It will be hard for them to recover after a huge mistake/strategy like this.
- Karunamon 14y ago
  >We'll have to wait for EA's reply on this one. If EA's usual response to criticism means anything, we'll be waiting a loooooong time... >It will be hard for them to recover after a huge mistake/strategy like this. You're kidding, right? They'll just release Call of Modern Madden 5: Battlefield Part 2 and the fanboys will eat it up, horrid DRM and microtransactions and all.
  - Fargren 14y ago
    If the reviews and reaction to the last Medal of Honor are anything to go by, people are finally getting tired of that old rehashed formula. The next CoD may not be as successful as the previous installments were.
- bsg75 14y ago
  It does. Do game developers implement DRM when not required to by the bean counters?
fooey 14y ago
"fail" makes it sound accidental I'd put good odds that server allocation was a very high level decision balancing the expected backlash They knew Amazon rating / word of mouth is going to put a massive hit on the LaunchDay+1 sales anyways, so what do they care if it actually works once you've handed over your cash?