EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 12, 2007 @04:25PM from the typical-mmo-company-response dept.

Fizzlefist writes "For the past 2 weeks there has been an uproar on the Sims 2 forums concerning the inclusion of Sony's SecuROM DRM software in the latest expansion pack, Bon Voyage. It seems paid customers have been having problems since day one of release, but EA is only now, 5 weeks later, issuing an official statement on the matter. A lot of what's in the statement is outright fiction with proven reports of issues with disabling of disc burning software, optical disc drives, printers, cameras, system slowdown and even system crashes. Fan responses have been cold to say the least. Interestingly enough, the expansion pack was cracked and up on the internet less than 24 hours after its release."

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Re:It sounds to me that they want to help. by WML+MUNSON · 2007-10-13 05:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

For those of you who are Googling "Demon Tools" right now and maybe not finding anything:

It's actually called Daemon Tools, and can be found at http://www.daemon-tools.cc/.

I use it, and it works wonders. I've never had it install any extra crapware like the parent mentioned, though admittedly I still use a slightly outdated version. Maybe the new releases come with crapware now, who knows...