Battlefield 4 DRM Locking Out Part of North America Until EU Release 312
An anonymous reader writes "On the whole, Battlefield 4 had a reasonable launch. The have clearly learned from their past experiences with Battlefield 3 and, more notably, SimCity. Still, some customers are unable to access the game (until, presumably, October 30th at 7PM EDT, 39 hours after launch) because they are incorrectly flagged by region-locking. Do regional release dates help diminish all the work EA has been putting into Origin with their refund policy and live technical support? Should they just take our money and deliver the service before we change our minds?"
Re:I am one affected (Score:5, Interesting)
I happen to like single player campaigns. No stupid kids playing spawn-shoot-suicide-repeat.
Re:Welcome to the rest of the world (Score:5, Interesting)
The entire fucking point of DRM is to prevent piracy. It prevented it not at all. The pirated copy is out before the legal copy for much of the world. However, it did massively inconvenience many paying customers. People pirate for lots of reasons; It is free, it is not supporting "the man," it is "l337!" But there is one other big reason now; The pirated version is a superior product! I know lots of people who buy a game, has trouble installing, and then get the pirated version so they can play. It doesn't take much of that before they just skip the painful step of bothering with the legal copy...
Re:Welcome to the rest of the world (Score:1, Interesting)
If you bought a copy, found iout ater it had huge problems and a pirate copy is the only way to get a usable product, then go for it. You bought it and can do what you want. But that's totally different than pirating it from the get go simply because it has DRM and you don't like that.
Re:Welcome to the rest of the world (Score:2, Interesting)
23 gigabytes? Isn't that like more than all the information in the known universe? This must be some awesome game.
Half-Life 1 was about 800mb.
No Dice.