EA TAKES AWAY Purchased Games

Don't use Origin would be the best solution.

Ayyy! A Fellow Kid XD

Nice costume Ashley :)

That sucks. Good know where we actually stand when we buy games digitally.

For the record, Darkspore was actually a pretty neat game, that could be argued was ahead of its time... It was just tainted by being part of the "spore" franchise (for some reason, even though it played nothing like it, and had a significantly darker aesthetic)

I feel vindicated by my distrust of digital purchases.

can you imagine if someone from Nintendo barged into your house and took away your N64 cartridges claiming that there was some stupid legal dispute ,or they don't want to "support" them anymore, and they have to take them away because you don't actually "own" them? Absolutely absurd. Welcome to the future folks.

I love the costumes!

Ashley's costume: amazing. Burnie's costume: stuff he borrowed from interns.

The real question here is: "Where even is Myanmar?"

I kid, I kid. But yeah, we knew DRM sucked and this is just one of the ways that it shows.

Pretty sure that in a lot of countries there is recourse to law in these cases, pretty sure removing access to a game in the UK would breach the Trade Descriptions Act (especially if it only the DRM that needs the home server and the game plays locally).

Noting, of course, that you'd have to prove their terms of service were rubbish - which shouldn't be too hard since the European courts have already declared a number of those to be contrary to contract law in the EU and therefore not worth the paper they were printed on and doubly so for the ones that just pop up in your face upon install.

As it has been said before. DRM itself effects only legitimit buyers and not pirates. It's a system of trying to ensure only legitimate games are played. While to a degree online games are very secure, they are not immune to this and really there are always means to break DRM if people don't want to pay for something. The only people hurt by DRM are the people legitimately buying the game.

I think the DRM idea of losing games for cheating is fine so there's a reason people won't risk that kind of anti-game behaviour as they have a lot of games to lose. But otherwise a game should remain playable even if the host of it (like steam) dissappears.

drm issues aside, maybe those citizens should start taking issue with their governments who got themselves embargoed in the first place.

And this is why you buy physical copies and offline consoles.