Dead Space 2 Fails

[darkcommanderq]

Dear EA
Please explain to me why I cannot play the game I bought on launch night in the cold at my local game stop.

Ok so get this, are you ready? Good.

After DS2 finishes installing guess what?! It wont run because its not MIDNIGHT yet in CALIFORNIA. I mean common is this just the biggest DRM fail or what.

Did anyone else buy this for PC on launch night and have this problem.
/end rant

 

[PeterDawson]

It's DRM dude. What did you expect? Rationality?

No, but its still yet another sign that game companies haven't figured out how to do DRM right.

 

[OniaPL]

Do you really need to play it right now? Can't you like, go do something else? It isn't the end of the world if you can't play Dead Space 2 for 1-24 hours.

 

[mooncalf]

Is that for real? Score another sucker punch against honest consumers.

 

[darkcommanderq]

Wow, that does suck. But don't take it out the developers. Blame EA for bullshit like this.

Dude I know. Im going to BE a developer some day. I love viseral and Bioware. What pisses me off are the suits that dont know shit about games and dont know how to freaking treat there customers like humans.

Its simple, people that are going to pirate your game will pirate it because thats JUST WHAT THEY DO. people who will buy it will buy it because they feel your game is worth it. All DRM does (at least this type of unacceptable intrusive bullshit) is turn people who would normally buy the game into pirates. (Dont worry I haven't crossed that line yet...but this incident sure does not help me want to buy any EA games ever again, thats for sure).

DRM back in the day that was just serials keys was cool. Hell even Ubisofts constant internet connection isnt as big a freaking deal as, "Oh we cant implement a program that allows you to play games when its midnight in your region".

 

[Jenkins]

give it 7 more minutes, i should know since I live in SoCal.

 

[Luciano Silva]

Good thing I never experience anything like that, but then again I don't go to midnight releases and then play it as soon as I get home from the midnight release.

 

[InsomniJack]

While it sucks to not be able to play it due to DRM, personally (as someone who lives in the same time zone as California) I would be reluctant to play the game as soon as I was able to install it/obtain it from Gamestop. Dead Space is not one of those franchises that I'd consider to play in the dead of night.

 

[darkcommanderq]

Good thing I never experience anything like that, but then again I don't go to midnight releases and then play it as soon as I get home from the midnight release.

I usually dont either. This is the first midnight release iv ever gone to. I did it because I have time tomorrow to play and sleep in.

 

[OniaPL]

You're right, he doesn't deserve the right to use something he's paid for until an abritrary time set by someone else. How ridiculous.

*Sigh* Yes, I agree, it might not be a pleasant surprise, but is it really worth being mad over? We are not talking about weeks of wait, we are talking about less than 24 hours! Are we really so dependent on games that we can't wait such a small amount of time to play one?

 

[darkcommanderq]

You're right, he doesn't deserve the right to use something he's paid for until an abritrary time set by someone else. How ridiculous.

*Sigh* Yes, I agree, it might not be a pleasant surprise, but is it really worth being mad over? We are not talking about weeks of wait, we are talking about less than 24 hours! Are we really so dependent on games that we can't wait such a small amount of time to play one?

As I said. When you set aside time to do something and your plans get interrupted its frustrating. Especially when theirs no announcement for it, NOR anyone awake to FIX the problem.

Also the biggest thing isnt so much the game, because your right there are other things I can do. Its the principle, and the fact that EA is the largest gaming company they should be better than this. There software shouldn't be WORSE than the little indi guy who made bloody minecraft.

EDIT: yeah so its midnight in Cali and I still cant play wtf....

 

[Fenring]

ALL PC games requiring online activation are like this. IT'S TO HELP PREVENT PIRACY. Sure you may not like it, but that would be why you would buy a console (unless Sony does that serial key thing, then just 360). EA (and I'm pretty sure all other companies) will not turn on the authentication servers UNTIL IT IS LAUNCH DAY. It is just barely launch day here, and I'm sure you can do it now, but this is nothing new, you just haven't encountered it yet.

 

[OniaPL]

As I said. When you set aside time to do something and your plans get interrupted its frustrating. Especially when theirs no announcement for it, NOR anyone awake to FIX the problem.

Also the biggest thing isnt so much the game, because your right there are other things I can do. Its the principle, and the fact that EA is the largest gaming company they should be better than this. There software shouldn't be WORSE than the little indi guy who made bloody minecraft.

First, I must say I am sorry. I thought you were already used to being smacked around by publishers like EA, like many others. But as you are comparing EA to Notch, it seems that you aren't familiar with them.

The thing is, I understand at first it may annoy you. But I am used to this, and thus I don't think its worth getting mad over.

 

[tzimize]

ALL PC games requiring online activation are like this. IT'S TO HELP PREVENT PIRACY. Sure you may not like it, but that would be why you would buy a console (unless Sony does that serial key thing, then just 360). EA (and I'm pretty sure all other companies) will not turn on the authentication servers UNTIL IT IS LAUNCH DAY. It is just barely launch day here, and I'm sure you can do it now, but this is nothing new, you just haven't encountered it yet.

To prevent piracy? How? How is having different launch times (or the same, but different in a global time setting because of time-zones) preventing piracy? If anything it is encouraging it.

If it made the game released at the same time all over the world, it could be argued it COULD combat piracy (a little)...but when you take time-zones into account its just a huge freaking annoyance. Knowing that half the world is already playing, but you can because you live a few miles too far to the left (or right, whatever)...does NOT help to combat piracy.

This happens on steam ALL the time, and I hate it.