Screw you EA, screw you!
Posted on November 2, 2008 - Filed Under Gaming
So since i finished my computer I’ve gotten around to pick up some PC games. I’ve gone ahead and picked up Warhammer Online, Civilization 4: Colonies, Fallout 3, and Spore. As well as putting some old games on i already had like Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Star Wars Rebellion.
Of course all of the non EA games work no problem, FO3 has a crash error and another case i got my self stuck(completly my fault apparently ~ brings up some debugger thingie and i didn’t realize i pushed the buttong and couldn’t get out of it). However Warhammer game me a lot of issues in getting it started and every time I play i have to let them know i still agree to their terms. Nothing major, just a minor annoyance.
Now comes spore, a game I’ve wanted to play since I first heard anything about it. A game I badly want to play. A game that EA’s fingers being on have scared me to death. None the less, I went out and purchased. I stick the disc fresh from the box into my DVD drive. Up pops the autoplay and I get ready to isntall. Oh Glory days! I get all the way to the second screen, where I get to agree to their user agreement. Ya know, the agreement that means they get to stick securerom on my Computer. The agreement that limits how many computers I’m allowed to install the game I purchased. That agreement. I click accept as the alternative is piracy, and I don’t condone stealing.
Alas though, clicking on the agree check box makes the set up crash! with the informative message of “An error has occured.” So I head to the spore page read the technical FAQ to see if others had this issue. Of course they didn’t. So I notice a concact us link to the side of the FAQ, I click it and enter my EA login info(good thing i had to make one for warhammer!) and get redireced to a dead page telling me that EA can’t properly make a certificate. Luckily google is my friend and i google EA’s general support page and am able to login there. I naviagate through a couple of pages so i can ask my question. I fill everything out, attach a screenshot and the DXdiag report and hit submit. However, EA knowing what I want better than me decides to redirect me to one of the FAQs i’ve already been through. So kind of you EA! luckily at the bottom there is a link to click to say no this doesn’t help me, please take my question so i can play my game.
So I click that link and I get sent to another dead page! with my answer not submitted to the system. So I try again, and again no luck from EA letting me send them my question. So now I’ve spent $50 to pirate a version of Spore so at least this way I get to play the game.
So you know what EA, this is why people hate you. Even when I support you, you screw me over.
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You gotta play Fallout3 asap.
ADD isn’t cooperating, RB2, Portal, Audiosurf and now MC:LA keep prying me away. When I launch up FO3 i go man that’s pretty do a mission or two and go back to one of the others.
I also picked up Red Alert 3…and that’s not helping FO3 play time either