"somewhat hard to use as a games machine."
*snarf*
Understatement of the year. My toaster makes a lousy aircraft carrier too; why would I care?
Why should the advertisers help?
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Which would imply that the advertisers have a motivation to help you remove the offending ads. They don't. They get paid for them just as much as for anything else.
Which would be far more interesting a statistic if they were using anything like a valid method for measuring the piracy...
They're counting up the number of unique IPs logging into their site playing the game, and dividing by the number of copies they sold. Many people get assigned a random IP by their ISP on a regular basis; each of those people will count as many, many pirates by this method.
Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot; the only purpose the forums serve, from EA's point-of-view, is to build a sense of community which will convince their current users to buy their next game - and expose them to advertising for said game at the same time.
With one stroke they destroy any existing sense of community (ok, admittedly the EA forums may not have much community to lose) and effectively tell any and all future customers that they should under no circumstances use the official forums, ever. Well done. Customers hurt:0; EA shoes with smoking holes: 1.
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"somewhat hard to use as a games machine." *snarf* Understatement of the year. My toaster makes a lousy aircraft carrier too; why would I care?
Which would imply that the advertisers have a motivation to help you remove the offending ads. They don't. They get paid for them just as much as for anything else.
Trust? No. Install and subsequently hack to send continuous looped footage of someone playing Grand Theft Auto IV? Maaaaaaaybe....
Phil Plait is pretty good as a crusader for critical thinking / science, though not one particularly aimed at children.
Which would be far more interesting a statistic if they were using anything like a valid method for measuring the piracy... They're counting up the number of unique IPs logging into their site playing the game, and dividing by the number of copies they sold. Many people get assigned a random IP by their ISP on a regular basis; each of those people will count as many, many pirates by this method.
Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot; the only purpose the forums serve, from EA's point-of-view, is to build a sense of community which will convince their current users to buy their next game - and expose them to advertising for said game at the same time. With one stroke they destroy any existing sense of community (ok, admittedly the EA forums may not have much community to lose) and effectively tell any and all future customers that they should under no circumstances use the official forums, ever. Well done. Customers hurt:0; EA shoes with smoking holes: 1.