Impulse is proud to announce the addition of the Electronic Arts catalog to its growing library of games. Today sees the release of The Sims 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising, and Spore.
In The Sims 3, every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evil, artistic, insane, and romantic kleptomaniacs? It’s entirely up to you. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you’ve chosen and watch how their traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. Combine over 60 personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. The Sims 3 is available for $49.95 at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/sims3.
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 continues the alternative history strategy series with yet another tweak to the timeline. Facing certain defeat, with the Allies at their doorstep, a desperate Soviet leadership uses its own experimental time machine to save themselves. Going back in time, they ensure that the Allies never gain their technological advantage, saving their future selves. However, like all changes to the timeline, this has unforeseen consequences. Fight as the Allies, Soviets or the all-new Empire of the Rising Sun in this action-packed real-time strategy game. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 is available for $29.95 at http://www.impulsedriven.com/redalert3.
In Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising, players learn what happened in the aftermath of Red Alert 3. This stand-alone expansion pack adds four all-new campaigns, more star-studded live-action movies to tell the ongoing Red Alert story as well as an all-new Commander’s Challenge mode where players must withstand the brutal onslaught of the world’s toughest commanders. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising is available for $19.95 at http://www.impulsedriven.com/ra3uprising.
In Will Wright’s PC masterpiece, Spore, players take an amazing journey of creation as they guide their creature through five stages of evolution. Unleash your imagination as you make fantastical creatures, vehicles, buildings and spaceships. Players can show off creations and everything you make can be shared and used by other players. Explore your world and beyond with Spore, now available for $39.95 at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/spore.
Actually, yes. Which is why I know that Suckrom has a habit of breaking internet explorer. (As in in created a situation where right clicking on something caused explorer to crash; I found a solution online that involved deactivating parts of SuckRom apparently designed specifically to prevent you from right click on stuff).
Exactly. Games like Crysis and Mass Effect are hailed and awarded, and I've played an hour of Crysis at a friend's place and I saw a very, very long elevator in Mass Effect. I'd like to play those games, I really would, however I can't because of what they do and what they'll allow EA Games to continue to do.To be honest, I've never understood the mentality of "it has DRM software in it so I'll pirate it" as people who do this are just reinforcing the misplaced belief of the company using the overly restrictive DRM software. Your not boycotting anyone and you're certainly not helping yourself - you're still using their products and giving them more reason to use even more harsh forms of DRM software. This is like a man on a hunger strike robbing a super market of food and claiming it didn't break his hunger strike. Why pirate the game? How does this help at all? DRM software is a response to piracy, not the other way around.
Just to get a few points strait.
I am not upset that Stardock is now distributing EA producs. It is definately a good sing for Stardock and maybe will entice EA to change but that is a logn shot.
I do not support pirating/hacking of games and ect. I am only stating actions I decided to take in personal retaliation towards EA's DRM policies.
But I am on a personal vedeta againts EA to warn as many people as possible about their malware products in attemps to dimish their sales and cut into their profit marging. I do realise me and thousands of other people will not be enought to make them go bankrupt or anything. I just hope it drives enought customers away for them to take notice and do somethign about it along the lines of what Stardock did.
And for those who have not figured it out yet I used to be a very good customer to EA products but DRM has driven me off. In my EA product collection that I ahve and can remember off the top of my head I ahve the following.
SimCity 4 and Rush HoursC&C GeneralsRed Alert2C&C Tiberium WarsBF2 and Special ForcesDune EmperorAnd more that I forget. In addition tot hat add in titles Iw ould have bought but decided not to buy as protest to them treating me the legitimate customer as a Pirate.
P.S. Had you guys at Stardock taken bets on how long it would take for EA to get bad mouthed after posting this announcement up?
NWN2 had this problem because of the Securom update in the 1.13 patch.
The CD check was removed in the 1.23 hotfix because of Securom causing people to blue screen when launching the game.
So people do have very valid reasons for disliking Securom and calling it malware.
That beacause it is malware. Know the saying: "If looks like shit, smell like shit, tastes like shit and feels like shit then it must be SHIT!"
Yes SecuROM is pretty evil in my eyes. Also some CD checks are/were, because even with the legal disk in your drive they sometimes would not recognize it and you could not play.
However - and I posted this in another thread already - as long as there is even 1 pirate companies like EA will not blame lost sales on their own flaws but instead keep blaming it on piracy. They could make the most crappy game, sell only 2000 copies of it and go "yeah well piracy screwed us over, we need to sue more people" instead of realizing they make buggy games and people don't buy their product because of their DRM.
It's all a shame because they do publish some great games that I would love to play (after about 6 patches).
I'd rather get mass effect via impulse than steam. I haven't bothered because of (a) securom and ( steam is a piece of crap.
True, and I don't like Steam that much, either. However, I don't think Mass Effect has the dreaded SecuROM on it when distributed through Steam (just the normal Steam DRM). Considering my last experience with SecuROM, I'm much more likely to buy Mass Effect through Steam right now, unless Impulse can distribute it without that nastiness. It's unfortunate because I'd much prefer to support Stardock.
It doesn't. Only the Steam DRM affects it. Mass Effect was my test game for Steam. After reading so many posts on various forums about how great Steam was, I figured instead of just saying it's not something I'm interested in and I don't like it, I'd give it a shot. Result: I don't like Steam, as it offers me nothing extra that I want, and I don't particulaly like the way it works. So Mass Effect is my first and last major game I'll purchase from Steam (I may pick up games that are on sale for a very cheap price that I don't particularly care much about but that's it).
So, bottom line: if you don't particularly mind Steam, you can go right ahead and grab Mass Effect through them. There is no extra hidden DRM on the game.
Mass Effect is also on Gamer's Gate with online activation. They don't know whether SecuRom is in it. Here is the response by Jonas B from Gamer's Gate
"All we have to go on is our records and the information we get from the developer. If the developer chooses not to include information about DRM's it won't show in our records, so there is still a small chance that there is some kind of protection. We are working on making it easier to find out if a game has a DRM or not, but I can't say how long that will take at the moment. When it comes to activation we make sure that our customers always have the right to install and play the games they have bought, regardless of activation limits. If you buy the game and it still has a DRM, we can always give you a refund."
Who said i pirate titles ? I just point out the obious - that some are going to use the region locking of the download sale channels to justify their piracy.
I feeling let down by the publishers who seem to deem it ok for some part of the world to be able to purchase the titles as download and others are denied the same service willing to pay the same amonth of money, i wouldnt buy a single share in a company who denies its customers to purchase its products especially when its in the IP market knowing alot will pirate the software instead!
It's great to see more of your posts around here Coelocanth.
EA has added a new activation option to its download manager. For the new EA games, customers that buy in retail can now also use their digital service. At least that's what's indicated in the latest EADM (I just recently explored that avenue for BW's upcoming releases). Kind of what Stardock and Valve already do with their platforms. Maybe something to try out with your collector's edition of DA:O and ME2. Then again, SecuRom is still there to spoil the fun. Even with a new 5 install limit and a revocation tool, it's still a pain.
Cheers!
I have tried that Activation option on the EADM, and it never seems to do anything. *shrug* I have no idea what its about.
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