This is the reason I am now boycotting all EA games. That means no Spore for me, which I am very, very sad about, but it has to be done.
Basically EA is single Handedly killing PC gaming. Sure they will blame it on the Pirates but we all know that is a complete cop out. I have not once seen anyone from EA deny that this is all a big effort to kill off the second hand games market as well as a money making scam due to the people who will have to phone overseas phone lines, or who will naively just go out and repurchase the game.
That poor guy had to wait days and days just to play a single player game, if EA had any ounce of care about their customers they would have sorted it out for him sooner. They would also introduce freephone automated 24x7 phone lines (like Microsoft do for activating their software) if they insist on limiting activations, or even better, they would remove limited activation completely.
Look what it did to Mass Effect, this should be a no1 game on the PC, instead it is floating around at the bottom of the games charts in most stores, I can't see any other reason for this other than more and more people are becoming wise to these kinds of DRM schemes and are just not buying the games.
I personally think EA would be happy to see the end of PC gaming, they would probably prefer us all to move over to consoles anyway.
I've also just heard a nasty rumour that EA is publishing Warhammer online, I need to check this out because then I'd have to cancel my collectors edition preorder
