1. I heard from the comments at Amazon that it installs a program that constantly runs in your background, and takes up CPU usage. SecureROM.
2. I also hear that EA would drop the authentication servers when they come up with a new way to do anti-piracy, and you wouldn't be able to install your game anymore.
3. I also hear that EA can counter your claim and not give you a 4th install because they think you're a pirate.
4. I hear the pirated version doesn't install securerom and thus is the better version, which also runs smoother, because of no securerom.
5. As I understand, if EA goes out of business somehow(as all companies do) your disc will be unable to install.
6. Sometimes I have to reformat my computer. Sometimes games don't work right on my computer, and I have to reinstall them. Sometimes I want to play on my laptop, or at my brothers house. With 3 installs, I'm basically renting the game.
7. Some computers I have aren't hooked up to the internet.
8. The form of piracy securerom prevents is local. It's so you can't go around and install the game on friends computers, and let them download a 100kb no-cd hack, and share the game with everyone for free. It's assuming that people who pirate anyway, won't go to the extent of downloading 8gb? It's like saying, "Well, if your morals won't prevent you from doing it, maybe a longer download will."
9. The hacked version is superior, due to secure-rom(or whatever it's called) and people are playing the game for free that I'd have to pay a large sum for.
10. The game isn't as good as we hoped anyway, or so I hear, so it's hard to want to install securerom(which is basically a virus) have your computer run slower forever, and jump through hoops for customer service. Especially when you get a much better version for free, no strings attached.
11. This is an inherant flaw with PC gaming market, imo. The ability to pirate games easily isn't something that should exist. When it does, bad things happen. This game will probably be pirated more than any other game. It's like I'd be buying a gimped version of a free game, and installing an unremovable virus on my computer at the same time. Then again, all this stuff might be rumor.
Thus, I choose to simply not buy it. If it comes to a console, I'd rent it.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
