As many of you already know, EA is taking the Ubisoft DRM approach to Assassins Creed 2 and applying it to C&C4.  Even after the huge debacle with those DRM servers going down, EA is still staying the course. I have no doubt that this will blow up in their faces.  But you know it’s really bad when someone from the company starts to talk about their trouble with it.  I found this article on Ars with a tweet from Jeff Green:

“Booted twice—and progress lost—on my single-player C&C4 game because my DSL connection blinked. DRM fail. We need new solutions.”

He then goes on to say:

“However, C&C4 experiments w/what a “single-player game” is—given it’s constantly uploading progress/stats for unlocks. It’s complicated… I think if we think of C&C4 as an ‘online-only’ game—which it basically is—then maybe we’d adjust our expectations accordingly.”

And the grand finale:

“The story is fun, the game play is interesting and different at least—but if you suffer from shaky/unreliable DSL—you’ve been warned.”

So…let me get this straight.  It’s not the DRM that’s the problem, it’s my expectations?  I find something very wrong with that statement.  Research has shown again and again that DRM only hurts those who legally purchase the game.  Rule of thumb, if it’s digital, it will get cracked.  As a matter of fact, I know that this game has already been cracked.  I saw someone at a “unnamed” LAN playing it cracked.  He said the crack uses a server emulator to make it work.  I the meantime other users who purchased it legit couldn’t play because of the unsteady internet connection.

Well, they don’t have to worry about me getting this game, legit or cracked.  I haven’t played a cracked game since 2005 and I will keep that streak going.  If they didn’t have all this DRM on top of the game, I might actually consider getting it if my friends were playing it multiplayer.  But they can forget about that, even if all of my friends are playing it.  I don’t understand why they keep going down these paths.  Can’t they see that Valve has been able to do GREAT in sales without DRM on their products?  But what do I know?  I’m just a consumer.