EA gives up?

Skillers · Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:21 am

OMFG. Is this a sign that EA are giving up and are becoming awesome?

Crysis is $49.99
Warhead is $29.99

No discount for both together.

Si · Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:31 am

Or maybe its just a method of getting Aaron to buy Crysis again?

Skillers · Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:45 am

Heh, maybe. It would be good if you could activate your existing copy with Steam. I did that with Prey, but no other games have been able to do it.

Wynney · Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:14 pm

well i guess they can hardly get any worse

Skillers · Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:06 pm

Huh, WTF has that got to do with the post?

Wynney · Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:10 pm

EA suck, steam rule, EA can only improve

Skillers · Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:33 pm

LOL, I guess. But it means they might have given up on EA downloader, FINALLY!

azcn2503 · Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:34 pm

Fantastic! I will probably buy both (again).

Lord Metritutus · Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:02 am

I believe the move was pioneered by Crytek and had little to do with EA.

azcn2503 · Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:54 am

Does this mean that Crysis and Warhead now have two publishers? One being EA, and another being EA? Or is it an EA/Valve double team hardcore action? Or is it Crytek/Valve?

Lord Metritutus · Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:39 pm

azcn2503 wrote:

Does this mean that Crysis and Warhead now have two publishers? One being EA, and another being EA? Or is it an EA/Valve double team hardcore action? Or is it Crytek/Valve?

It's Crytek/Valve I believe.

http://www.developmag.com/news/30495/Cr ... -for-Steam

Azraeleus · Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:15 pm

Crytek and valve sounds epic..

Si · Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:27 pm

I'm sorry, but I hope you all noticed this on the steam page:

Title: Crysis Warhead®
Genre: Action
Developer: Crytek
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: Sep 18, 2008
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian
3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™ 3 machine activation limit

assholes

azcn2503 · Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:49 pm

Haven't purchased and glad I didn't after seeing that. DRM is good for nobody, and it is especially bad for the publishers. Why won't they just realise that?

Skillers · Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:24 pm

I think that's a new addition to the page.

But yeah, I read about it on the Steam forums. Apparantly Bioshock does it too. It's lazy developers who don't change it for Steam, as there's no reason to have it on Steam.

I don't get why they still have the activation limit though, that's insane

DRM doesn't achieve anything, except the Steam DRM (because it's acceptable and offers a good service aswell). CDKeys and needing the CDs is alright, but I find needing the CDs is annoying.

Lord Metritutus · Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:56 pm

Skillers wrote:

I think that's a new addition to the page.

But yeah, I read about it on the Steam forums. Apparantly Bioshock does it too. It's lazy developers who don't change it for Steam, as there's no reason to have it on Steam.

I don't get why they still have the activation limit though, that's insane

DRM doesn't achieve anything, except the Steam DRM (because it's acceptable and offers a good service aswell). CDKeys and needing the CDs is alright, but I find needing the CDs is annoying.

Bioshock's Steam 5 install limit was removed I believe. Lets hope the same happens with regards to Warhead.

Skillers · Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:09 pm

I think it was removed, it no longer says it on the BioShock page.

The problem is Valve don't have the power to force publishers to remove it. Hopefully they will notice that it does sod all against piracy and just drop it (as it makes potential ligitimate customers want to pirate).

Lord Metritutus · Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:35 pm

Skillers wrote:

I think it was removed, it no longer says it on the BioShock page.

The problem is Valve don't have the power to force publishers to remove it. Hopefully they will notice that it does sod all against piracy and just drop it (as it makes potential ligitimate customers want to pirate).

I think they also realised that Bioshock was secure on Steam.

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