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loobeeNot really important but I'm not going to be around from tonight until Thursday night. My mum's off to visit my aunt so I'm home alone and my dog Kaneda hasn't been well so I have to look after him. I'm not going to be able to get online because I can't really leave him downstairs while I'm upstairs. I guess I can do with the break though -_-
But thank you to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday it meant a lot to me ♥
I also really hope that EA Games doesn't repeat what they did with Spore with it's '3 installs only then you have to ring them up for another code' for Sims 3. That's because I always have problems with it installing, it took me ages to get Seasons up and it won’t recognise my Nightlife D: So if you only have 3 times to register it’s going to be a pain in the arse. Okay I could probably get a cracked copy of it but I actually want to buy Sims 3 like a good girl (for once)
The "three installs" thing is ridiculous, though. If nothing else, it limits your user rights. You can't re-sell the game. You don't "own" the game, you're essentially leasing it under a set of terms. Imagine you have a music CD with extras on it. You play it on your stereo. You then play it on your PC to view the extras. You play it on a walkman in the kitchen while you're doing the washing up. Then you try to play it in your car stereo, and it won't play, because you've used your three "play zones". You have to ring up the music store and ask them to let you play it in the car. How awesome would that be.
EA sucks -_-
But thank you to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday it meant a lot to me ♥
I also really hope that EA Games doesn't repeat what they did with Spore with it's '3 installs only then you have to ring them up for another code' for Sims 3. That's because I always have problems with it installing, it took me ages to get Seasons up and it won’t recognise my Nightlife D: So if you only have 3 times to register it’s going to be a pain in the arse. Okay I could probably get a cracked copy of it but I actually want to buy Sims 3 like a good girl (for once)
The "three installs" thing is ridiculous, though. If nothing else, it limits your user rights. You can't re-sell the game. You don't "own" the game, you're essentially leasing it under a set of terms. Imagine you have a music CD with extras on it. You play it on your stereo. You then play it on your PC to view the extras. You play it on a walkman in the kitchen while you're doing the washing up. Then you try to play it in your car stereo, and it won't play, because you've used your three "play zones". You have to ring up the music store and ask them to let you play it in the car. How awesome would that be.
EA sucks -_-
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on 2008-10-15 10:26 am (UTC)LOL, EA has been getting so much shit about how they releasaed SPORE ... I really hope they won´t repeat that mistake. People were SO not taking that well. XD
I get why companies want to protect themselves against piracy (they don´t have a chance, but anyway), but they have to accept that strategies like these only turn people off.
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on 2008-10-16 07:41 pm (UTC)I know, they often forget their customers in protecting themselves. If only they could make sure serial numbers were original to the games in the box or something more simple.