Didn't you guys already say this in the magazine?

GI often posts articles from their magazine on the site. Example: The "changing battlefield" article about Modern Warfare 2.

I didn't realize that game piracy was such a big issue. I personally don't know anyone who gets illegitimate copies of games and I'm friends with a lot of gamers.

It is a REALLY big issue lately. I think it's a shame how rampant piracy is getting, but it's also quickly becoming a vicious cycle of mistrust on all sides. People are starting to pirate because of the user-made cracks that work around stuff like DRM. But then more companies are implementing such tactic more and more to combat the increasing piracy.

I think we're just all at fault. The sooner both consumers and publishers learn to go about things honestly, the better. None of us is winning in this situation.

BTW, I'm happy they post some things in the magazine as well as online. I'm tight for money, so it helps me keep up with what's going on in the industry until I can subscribe again.

I've been out of the RTS realm for a long time, but this just seems ludicrous. Who doesn't do single player on their laptop on the go once in a while?

piracy is huge... although any company saying they're losing huge amounts of money to piracy is always questionable since

1) a lot of people buy a game and still prefer the pirated copy because of no DRM ( = 0 dollars lost)
2) a lot of pirates just want a free game and even if they couldn't have pirated it, they just wouldn't have bought it (= 0 dollars lost)
3) some people use pirated versions of games as demos to see if they actually want to buy a game (= possibly money GAINED)

Now of course their are pirates who could have been paying customers and do = money lost, but when a company cries about pirates, and how much money they're losing just think hard on it, cuz I can tell you right now, reason #1 is their own DRM.

Oh and not to mention, they probably lose 10x as money to used games sales than they do to piracy... but that is another discussion I suppose.

They can't just update their statistics once a connection has been reestablished?

This such an incredibly dumb idea. The internet is not reliable, it makes no sense to force people to have to be connected to it to use their software

So...will it take a week for the hackers to produce an application that will fake the EA server connection and keep the game running on your desktop?  or maybe just a few days...

@Jeffrey

half the time they can get it done the day of release if not before lol

What a bunch of B.S. Hate it when companies bold face lie.  If it was true the game could just update the stats when you connect next time. Just like the comments before suggested.

“Command & Conquer 4 has NO DRM. Zip, zero, zilch, none. We already made this clear,”

what an ass ^this guy sounds like.

Thats like saying "this road has no speed limit, but there are speed bumps every 10 ft"

I WILL NOT BUY A GAME THAT DOESNT WORK WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION (unless its online only). THIS WONT WORK

@born4this

I didn't think that piracy (as far as games go) was so bad either.  Almost everyone I know has some sort of gaming machine (PC, 360, PS3, or Wii) and none of them pirate games or buy pirated games.  Seems like what amounts to millions of gamers are being punished for the iniquities of an extremely small percentage.  

Pirates ruin everything!

I actually had a customer talk to this 8 year old about pirating and he said if his parents won't buy it for him he'll pirate it.  Kids are still coming in asking for the illegal R4

Damnit pirating is considered cool

haha ya thats a load of crap, if it didn't have DRM then i should not have to be online.

My frined bought it and doesnt have xbox live. He is in the other room crying.

Another joke DRM that does nothing to stop pirates.  They will by pass it again and will happily play it DRM-Free just like they did with Assassin's Creed II.

Morons.

Yeah that's the worse part, all this stuff does is punish the average gamer because pirates always find ways around it. Most of the time I play strategy games on my laptop during long car rides, which obviously wouldn't allow for an internet connection.

It makes the stockholders happy, and really, shouldn't that make everyone happy?

Suppose I'll pass, my router gets wonky enough on Live.