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Chalkdust
03/27/09

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Put it on Steam, EA, and you'll look even better than the other big publishers by comparison.
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Sullyville
03/27/09

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Everytime I am in Futureshop there is always some girl in the Sims section examining the back of one of these boxes.
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BritBloke916
03/27/09

@Sullyville: The Sims section of Futureshop is presumably the natural habitat for that sort of girl :)
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McDollar
03/27/09

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While personally I was hoping they'd go back to the old "what's the 7th word in the fourth paragraph on page 26 of the manual?" method of copy protection, I suppose this will have to do.

ah, the days of playing the simpsons arcade game PC port on my 5.75" floppy... thanks for that trip down memory lane, fahey.
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BritBloke916
03/27/09

@McDollar: It must have been a real sod trying to get that 5.75" floppy disk into your 5.25" floppy disk drive ;)
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PositivelyGreg
03/27/09

@BritBloke916: *cough* must have been one of those metric system diskettes.

Best protection ever, by far, was Bureaucracy's paranoid recluse.
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akwinters
03/27/09

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I hope this will become a company-wide policy at EA. Still, it's a step in the right direction!

Either that, or they're just doing it to "prove a point" once the piracy figures come in. Might as well do it with a game that will sell a fuckton anyway.
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BritBloke916
03/27/09

@akwinters: I like to think that EGM alumni Jeff Green is one of the voices of reason behind this apparent change in policy, but I haven't the faintest clue whether or not there's any truth in that.
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BritBloke916
03/27/09

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Would love to see this on the iPhone, especially after EA's tech demo of exactly that. It's the sort of thing you can drop into and of, tinkering with it for a few minutes at a time. Could be a great MMO-style iPhone offering (Sims Online didn't do hugely well on PC, maybe iPhone would be more successful).
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
03/27/09

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And the gamers will all come together to thank EA by pirating the absolute SHIT out of The Sims 3.
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BritBloke916
03/27/09

@Mister Jack Bought a DSi Like the Whore He Is: Probably true, and yet somehow it will still generate more money than Scrooge McDuck's moneybin.
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metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal
03/27/09

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I was hoping for a system like Monkey Island's 'Dial-A-Pirate'
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excel_excel
03/27/09

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Nice work EA
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Frequen-Z
03/27/09

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Looks like we'll have a successor to The Sims 2's record of Most Pirated Game.
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BritBloke916
03/27/09

@Frequen-Z: That would be the case whatever they did. It's still going to sell like plutonium in Iran, so they might as well keep the protection low-key and not piss off everyone that buys a legit copy.
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