{"id":449691,"date":"2010-03-19T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100318\/1240028622.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-19T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:08:26","slug":"despite-plenty-of-warning-ea-still-decides-to-follow-ubisoft-down-the-wrong-path-with-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/449691","title":{"rendered":"Despite Plenty Of Warning EA Still Decides To Follow Ubisoft Down The Wrong Path With DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, we wrote about some reports that EA was going to require a constant internet connection<\/a> for Command & Conquer 4<\/i>. At the time, many people argued that this was a bad, bad idea and would backfire greatly. Given EA’s serious problems<\/a> with bad DRM pissing off customers, you would think that EA would tread carefully here. In fact, late last year, EA gave some signs<\/a> that it was moving away from annoying and draconian DRM.<\/p>\n

On top of that, we all saw what happened when Ubisoft tried to require an online connection<\/a> as a form of DRM. The game was cracked<\/a> within hours of release — and then the DRM servers crashed<\/a> and were offline and slow for quite sometime — pissing off all sorts of legitimate customers.<\/p>\n

Given all of this, you would think that EA would know better than to move forward with plans to include this same form of DRM with C&C4. No such luck. Brian<\/a> was the first of a few of you to send in the news that EA appears to be sticking with the plan<\/a>. While that news report seems to indicate this is a new thing, it’s not. It was announced last summer — but it’s really unfortunate that EA hasn’t yet seen the strategic error in moving forward in this manner.<\/p>\n

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Last summer, we wrote about some reports that EA was going to require a constant internet connection for Command & Conquer 4. At the time, many people argued that this was a bad, bad idea and would backfire greatly. Given EA’s serious problems with bad DRM pissing off customers, you would think that EA would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}