Month: September 2008

Games : Value for money

Posted by DarkJedi – September 26, 2008

While EA is now facing a class-action lawsuit for putting a crappy piece of Sony Rootkit on its new game on the block, Spore, what is left for people who wants to pay for a game without loosing complete control with your own computer?

Leave EA to claim that DRM is necessary, while its games are being copied more than ever and walk away. There is an excellent alternative to get your gaming fix, get a lot of value for your money and at the same time a perfect way to send the message to the game companies that DRM should be left in the dust… “Good old games” – Yes, classics for a small price on easy-to-figure-out digital download, guaranteed to work on XP/Vista, NO DRM, support, manuals and the ability to redownload whenever/whereever. This is exactly what the market needs. Now you have the chance to support the companies that are risking their titles on this, showing that this is how digital distribution of games should be like!

Instead of paying 50$ for the mediocre Spore, filled with DRM and waiting to claim our money again and again for small expansions you could go to Good Old Games and for example get this instead :

Fallout 1

Fallout 2

Freespace + Expansion

Freespace 2

Stonekeep

Sacriface

Giants : Citizen Kabuto

Descent

Descent 2

… And you still save 2$

That’s a lot of hours of good gameplay that has endured over time!

My respect goes out to Interplay and Codemasters … Now just get the Monkey Island and UFO : Enemy Unknown series up there :)

Spreading the Viral Spore?

Posted by DarkJedi – September 9, 2008

Well, it was highly awaited… Finally some innovation in the world of gaming – not just another FPS with slightly better graphics and even crappier gameplay!

Then EA decided to screw both the good developers at Maxis and their by-now-small percentage of faithfull customers… and so they did!

This game is not something you buy – it is something you rent for 3 goes and that’s it! Naturally it also fills your computer with what can only be described as a full-on rootkit. So if you have been trying to avoid virusses, trojan and other backdoors in your system for years now forget about ever buying an EA game… What reign of madness did ever get the idea that a game is of such worth that it requires to take over your computer, which represents a value at least 25 times as much?!

If only one could buy the pirate version which works without all these problems?!

So in short: Don’t buy this unless you want to pay for the most expensive rental game ever made (trust me: the game itself is certainly not worth it by a long shot) and naturally for those money you also get a full-on rootkit placed in your system forever and ever!

Get lost, EA!