/signed

I'd have been happier with leaving the disk in the tray, as annoying as that is. This lifetime installation limit has to go. I routinely re-install old games. If they all did this, I'd quit gaming.

Of course I'll sign your petition. It's a stupid strategy of theirs anyway which only hinders those who legitimately purchase the game.

A few weeks ago, I wouldn't have signed. But lately I've been hearing too many stories about how the slightest change can actually eat up an installation. If they can't find some better way of doing this then they should just ditch the install limit altogether.

Plus I play games mostly on laptops now. Most of the time if one thing breaks the whole thing has to be replaced/repaired. The install limit is sure to blow up in my face sooner or later.

SIGNED, KoboldPrime

signed with blood and soul i mean there is a saffer way to make this and i take the egxapple of Steam you can install the game every where but you can only play it in 1 account (much better because we only need to memorize the pass and acc name which is not hard at all)

They need to do a lot before I'll buy another EA game, but this would be a start.

PunchesDelGado wrote:Funny you should mention, I thought Warhammer Online looked like a cool game, till I found out it had EAs name on it. Guess I'll never know.

Signed to the OP! And QFT the above- I've been waiting a long time for Warhammer to come out. Unfortunately EA so SPORED the pooch on Spore's DRM it turned me away from buying any PC game with an EA logo. (Although, based on a lot of reviews I've read, I'm not missing much in WAR.)

hstalica wrote:They need to do a lot before I'll buy another EA game, but this would be a start.

acctulay it would be a great victory to us and also for Ea because there are many ppl getting pirate versons because of the life time instalation limit

Before I forget... I do not agree the petition therefor I do not sign... BECAUSE... I dont want them to remove the limitation, I want them to remove SecROM... Thats a complete other thing... SecROM doesnt do any good for the customers, EA or Maxis at all... Hell, the game is the most pirated game ever. EA already lose its face, would be better to kneel before the paying customers and give them what they want... That would boost EAs reputation a bit... And everybody got a green "++" flying on top of thier heads... Simple.

*signed*

Disk in CD-Drive would be good enough for me... playing without a disk is not such a big advantage, if you cannot install it on more then one computer because this would use up one of the installs, which you will need when you reinstall your computer or upgrade the hardware...

You know, I wasn't going to respond, but the OP letter is very well written.

I understand that buying a game means I can install it on ONE PC at a time. Just because I own multiple PCs and purchase software does not mean that I am justified to install that purchased software on every machine that I own. So to the poster with the 9 PCs plus laptops... yes, EA is trying to stop YOU. And they are justified in doing that.

HOWEVER...

The limit on total installs without the option to de-install is not right. I remember an EA product from about 5 years ago which had 2 licences, but you could un-install a licence to get one back. I don't know why that technology can't be used.

To say it is to stop pirates is rediculous since pirates seem to be able to circumvent whatever copy protection is used.

So the real target of this is the average user.

My beef with this is that people who have to format a hard drive, upgrade their machine and so on will be "using up" installations. If the intention was for this to be something people will play for years (like The Sims) then that won't be possible for many consumers.

There really needs to be a better alternative to this as far as copy protection goes.

/Signed

Signed

@Mordraken - whats so wrong about installing the game on 9 PCs? ... He only got one key! Thats the point. Means for me... Install it in 100 PCs if you want to, but you can only play with 1 PC at the same time... Since you have to be online to have the full spore experience, it's not a big problem to do a cd-key check every 10 minutes or 15 and evertime you log on. And on match instantly kick both users...

Signed.

Although this would only matter if EA cared what it's customers think, and it's been proven time and time again that they really don't. So yeah, the best we can possibly hope for is a thinly veiled attempt to placate us with some meaningless gesture which only pretends to address the issue.

CainoMDK wrote:@Mordraken - whats so wrong about installing the game on 9 PCs? ... He only got one key! Thats the point. Means for me... Install it in 100 PCs if you want to, but you can only play with 1 PC at the same time... Since you have to be online to have the full spore experience, it's not a big problem to do a cd-key check every 10 minutes or 15 and evertime you log on. And on match instantly kick both users...

If they start checking every 10 min, I will freakin kill them! That would destroy people that dont have internet connection.

SIGNED WITH HATE