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Re:EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban by hobs on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:37AM (#5343320)
If you don't have an EA horror story at this point, you don't regularly play video games. After BF3 and Diablo 3 I learned my lesson, and I will not be fooled into thinking "now its better" by the newest hottest game.

My general advice is to ignore all EA games until they either change their ways(lol ya rite) or die.

Also remember that not only do they love to fuck up a launch, but they also love to discontinue games with online components to screw everyone who bought them, and a lot of these games are on current platforms (360) or feature somewhat recent IP (some bf3 item in there). http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0L266ui...

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Re:EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban by chc on Friday March 08, 2013 @03:21PM (#5345513)
Sims 3 (an EA game) is also known to be hampered by its DRM, though it's not in the "always online" category. It's one of those games where pirated copies with the DRM code deactivated run better than the version you get on the disc.
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Re:EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban by ajuc on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:10AM (#5343461)
Is Diablo 3 EA game?
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Re:EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban by hobs on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:16AM (#5343501)
No it is not. I was just using their terrible launch as an example of games with terrible launches.
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