No, you’re not dreaming: EA pulls Sims 3 DRM

EDGE reports the impossible today: EA taking DRM out of a game. The Sims 3 will reportedly ship with just a serial code and no online activation needed, and no restrictive and unnecessary DRM. The head of the Sims 3 studio, Rod Humble, described DRM as “overly invasive”, and added that serial-based verification is “a good, time-proven solution” to basic piracy.

Obviously, the Sims 3 will be pirated, there’s no doubt about that- but in light of the Spore controversy, people are less likely to be downloading it simply to say “fuck you” to EA this time. In a way, I’m glad that Spore was pirated so much; it seems to have shown EA that DRM just makes things worse for everyone.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/GiantLenin Giant Lenin

    Well, that's one step back to where they were in the beginning, now if only my pc could play the sims 3.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/greeneggsnsam Sam Naylor

    You never know, it might be able to. The specs for Sims games are usually pretty reasonable.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SenorTinman SenorTinman

    Also, I'm sure it'll be ported to every platform under the sun in a year or two.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/GiantLenin Giant Lenin

    Possibly, though I think they'll always recognise their base is the PC (hopefully).

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SenorTinman SenorTinman

    I'm sorry Giant Lenin, but for the longest time I thought your avatar was a penguin. I have no idea why.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/GiantLenin Giant Lenin

    hah!! Now that you mention it I can sort of see the penguin!

  • Mr Flibble

    They aren’t pulling DRM. In fact, the serial code requirement is itself DRM. What they’re doing is pulling the variant of SecuRom that was used on SPORE. However, the variant of SecuRom that was used on the later expansion packs for The Sims 2 was the serial code one, and it still caused serious problems for a small but significant number of people. In other words, there may still be problems ahead.

  • matt

    i can't see anything but the penguin.

  • jon

    rofl