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Lethn · 11-08-2008, 06:43 PM

Hiya folks, I logged on here to share my concerns, now I haven't bought an EA game since C&C3 ( ripoff! ) and at first I figured I'd be willing to buy Spore from their store direct and download it since I assumed it wouldn't have SecuROM on it but then I decided to read at the PR garbage known as the EULA.

You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical
and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system and application software and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online play. EA may also use this information in the aggregate, and in a form which does not personally identify you, to improve our products and services. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE.

Quite frankly I think this is an insult to legitimate consumers, as for the installation limit I don't know whether that's true or not, but I don't see why we should be forced to talk to the tech support team just to get one little extra installation out of them especially since talking to almost ANY tech support team takes such a bloody long time. Not only that I find it incredibly suspicious that EA feel the need to take our computer information and store it on their own PCs when they should be perfectly able to know what kind of computers most gamers will be using anyway which leads me to believe that they may well be trying to sneak in spyware under our noses and that quite frankly is just not on.

Please EA, don't ruin an already jaded gamers' impression of you by attempting to install garbage on my PC under the guise of 'updates' there are plenty of companies out there that don't use SecuROM or authentication software and get on just as well as you do.

I demand an official response on this, otherwise I will happily continue to boycott EA's products, this has gone on long enough, you are pretty much either expecting us to install spyware on are PCs or not buy the game at all, most people wouldn't even have looked at this EULA and so would have ended up wasting their money because YOU failed to properly notify them without hiding behind PR speak.

Big *** publishers like you would not be such a problem for the Games Industry if you actually showed a little honesty once in awhile.

11-08-2008, 06:43 PM	#259 (permalink)
Lethn Rookie Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 73	Hiya folks, I logged on here to share my concerns, now I haven't bought an EA game since C&C3 ( ripoff! ) and at first I figured I'd be willing to buy Spore from their store direct and download it since I assumed it wouldn't have SecuROM on it but then I decided to read at the PR garbage known as the EULA. You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system and application software and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online play. EA may also use this information in the aggregate, and in a form which does not personally identify you, to improve our products and services. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE. Quite frankly I think this is an insult to legitimate consumers, as for the installation limit I don't know whether that's true or not, but I don't see why we should be forced to talk to the tech support team just to get one little extra installation out of them especially since talking to almost ANY tech support team takes such a bloody long time. Not only that I find it incredibly suspicious that EA feel the need to take our computer information and store it on their own PCs when they should be perfectly able to know what kind of computers most gamers will be using anyway which leads me to believe that they may well be trying to sneak in spyware under our noses and that quite frankly is just not on. Please EA, don't ruin an already jaded gamers' impression of you by attempting to install garbage on my PC under the guise of 'updates' there are plenty of companies out there that don't use SecuROM or authentication software and get on just as well as you do. I demand an official response on this, otherwise I will happily continue to boycott EA's products, this has gone on long enough, you are pretty much either expecting us to install spyware on are PCs or not buy the game at all, most people wouldn't even have looked at this EULA and so would have ended up wasting their money because YOU failed to properly notify them without hiding behind PR speak. Big *** publishers like you would not be such a problem for the Games Industry if you actually showed a little honesty once in awhile. Last edited by Lethn; 11-08-2008 at 06:48 PM..