Some days ago I canceled my pre-order of the Battlefield 3 Limited edition for Windows PCs. It was a reaction on the news that the game would ship without ingame server browser, which had been replaced by a server browser in an external web browser. This meant that you had to keep Origin, the distribution [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Privacy: Another Reason Why I Won’t Use Origin By Electronic Arts
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Cartoon shootout with Battlefield Heroes
A new chapter in the Battlefield series is coming out soon, and there are free beta keys being handed out, so go over there this instant and get one for yourself! The new game brings a huge change, instead of going for realism, they went for a cartoon look, which looks pretty stunning I think. [...]
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EA De-Authorization Management Tool
Many game companies think that it is a good idea to limit the installations of their games on customer computers. This limit usually ranges between 3 and 5 installations before it cannot be installed anymore. This procedure is part of copy protection schemes that are supposed to block unrighteous installations of the games. Companies seem [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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EA backpedals on new Securom Protection
Just a day ago we have reported that Electronic Arts had plans to publish some of their upcoming PC blockbuster titles with a new Securom copy protection that would validate the game every ten days online. Failure to validate the game in that time period would have the effect that the game would not start [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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EA to use newest Securom in upcoming games
How would you feel about a game that needs an active Internet connection to verify the serial number ? How about a game that would have to do that every ten days after installation to make sure the serial number was genuine ? How about a game that would stop working after another ten days [...]
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Remove the Advertising in Games like Battlefield 2142
Ingame advertising will become more common in the next years. One of the first games that makes extensive use of ingame advertisement is EA Games Battlefield 2142. Once connected to the server it displays ads in the game that are displayed by a calculation of variables like your geolocation or time you did spend looking at an ad.