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99.8% of Gamers Don't Care About DRM, Says EA
arcticstoat writes "If you thought that EA might have been humbled by the massive Internet backlash against its use of SecuROM in its recent games, then you'd be wrong. Speaking at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference, EA's CEO John Riccitiello claimed that the whole issue had been blown out of all proportion. 'We implemented a form of DRM and it's something that 99.8 per cent of users wouldn't notice,' claimed Riccitiello, 'but for the other 0.2 percent, it became an issue and a number of them launched a cabal online to protest against it.'"
I'm on FIOS not cabal!
care. I'm expecting 499 other people to say they don't care.
Too true. (98.2% of our CURRENT customers love us. LOL)
EA Before:
"Hey Gamers, buy our wicked game because it's totally fun to play!!!"
EA Later:
"Hey Gamers, buy our new game because it has newer technology, better lighting, and it produces 100% more warm fuzzies than its predecessor!"
EA Now:
"Hey Gamers, bend over."
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
1st install - don't know, don't care 2nd install - don't know, don't care 3rd install - don't know, don't care 4th install - "Hey Ma! What's the number to Geek Squad. This here game be broken."
My DVD drive hasn't worked in a week and half, despite repeated tweaks and reinstalls. While mucking around on my drive last night, I found a directory called SecurROM. No frigging idea where it came from. I don't know if this is just a coincidence or what, but if I delete that directory and my drive suddenly starts working again then I'm going to do two things. First, I'm going to torrent a copy of Spore. Second, I'm going to track down an EA executive and punch him in the cock just as hard as I can.
And we need better math education...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
What do you expect EA would tell a bunch of Wall Street types? "We screwed the pooch and a bunch of people went after us for it" or "everything is fine, we're a great place to send your money!"
Well, yeah, but still, this seems like a bad time to present obviously made-up statistics to investors. I mean, wouldn't they be a bit sensitive about that sort of thing these days? Eh, maybe not, I don't know how Wall Street really works...
"0.2% of Gamers are too stupid to operate BitTorrent!"
s/gamers/developers
I, for one, have been nothing but impressed with the waves of free games built on top of the engines that id have released to the public as open-source.
Oh, wait...
> EA Now:
> "Hey Gamers, bend over."
I KNEW we should have done something to stop Romero at the time...
> I have no problem with copy protection on the xbox. It works. I put in the game, and the game plays, always.
Unless your 3-year old gets his hands on the games. Seriously, do you expect me to lock everything in a safe? He'd know the combination after watching me open it twice anyway...