Hope you feel like playing Call of Duty and Madden for the next 6 months.

Sounds like a fantastic idea that’ll get enormously hampered by issues with stock.

what can i say im a glass half-full kinda guy.

Think you missed the part where they can’t play the multiplayer aspect of these games which, in the case of older Battlefield titles, is 90-100% of the game...

Seriously. People paid for these games, and if they’re not going to support them, customers have every right to do whatever they can to be able to ACTUALLY USE THE PRODUCTS THEY PAID FOR.

I just want to point this out because it’s a common misconception, but *copyright* isn’t a “defend it or lose it” thing, *trademarks* are. You can print a million illegal copies of a book I copyrighted and I can ignore it and keep my copyright, but if you start advertising your plastic building blocks as “Lego”, our…

Somebody always pops up to say this, and that somebody is almost always wrong. Copyright does not require any sort of affirmative defense in any way shape or form. It can be enforced as narrowly and selectively as one likes, so there is no compulsion for EA to stop the distribution of the code here. Trademark (which…

This is, as usual, the publisher missing the point and long term small sales vs them wanting you to just shut up and buy the latest games with the latest mappacks yearly.

Here’s me in 2014 after Gamespy’s closure: