EA Editor Criticizes Command & Conquer 4 DRM

Command & Conquer 4's DRM hasn't garnered Electronic Arts as much bad press and fan outrage as Ubisoft's scheme, despite being very similar. Nevertheless, it's been causing problems and frustrations for some users, including EA.com's own editor-in-chief, Jeff Green. An anonymous reader points this out: "Green wrote on his Twitter account late last week: 'Booted twice — and progress lost — on my single-player C&C4 game because my DSL connection blinked. DRM fail. We need new solutions.' He continued later, 'Well. I've tried to be open-minded. But my 'net connection is finicky — and the constant disruption of my C&C4 SP game makes this unplayable. The story is fun, the gameplay is interesting and different at least — but if you suffer from shaky/unreliable DSL — you've been warned.'"

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I haven't had ANY problems with it

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I have somehow managed to have no problems with their DRM scheme at all. It hasn't caused me any frustrations nor any annoyances. How can this be you might ask? Simple. I didn't buy it and I don't play it. I'm pretty much done with PC games. PCs are for other things. Consoles are for games -- no one has a faster processor or video card that gives them an advantage or an edge in some way and even though the playing field for console games still isn't perfectly level, it's far more level there than on PCs.