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[Dsarker]

Fake email.

[Scaraban]

Valid email, they check these things. Most require confirmation as well, homes.

[olemars]

Try mailinator or similar.

[nenjin]

As much as it pains me to say it, I wouldn't falsify any info with EA. Because on the (very likely) chance you need CS's support, they're going to use those fake accounts in order to validate your purchases. (They won't use Steam data or anything else.)

The fact I didn't falsify some older EA games registration info is the only reason I was able to reclaim by BC2 account when EA mysteriously required everyone to log in again, where they promptly forgot the password they had set 6 months ago and never used again.

[alway]

Ya, just create a gmail account for your games and spam. Also for another Pandora account on another PC for extra free time. >_>

[Aklyon]

C&C4 wants me to make an account, specifically for the game, because apparently Steam and WindowsLive isn't enough online verification anymore.

No.  Fuck you EA.  I am not giving you another account to fuck up my email with, just so I can slog my way through the singleplayer campaign of an RTS I already paid good money for.

And not even a very great campaign at that, both sides end the exact same way pretty much.

[kaijyuu]

I crack games if at all possible after purchasing them.

[nenjin]

I think that's going to be less and less possible as time goes on, and more big companies tie features of the game directly to a server. The days of simply commenting out a few lines of code in the .exe, to override a disc check or not require the game to dial up, might be ending. When companies decide that everyone who is playing their game is going to have an internet connection, period, they can centralize a lot more data and execution outside the player's machine.

It's funny but I never would have thought, 10 years ago, that popular SP and MP games were essentially going to become MMOs in terms how they handle players and the games themselves. But that's right where we're headed when EA, Activision/Blizzard, Ubi, THQ, and all the others finalize these platforms they've all been working on for a decade.

[Aklyon]

The time they try to force gaming into a always-on all the time no-exceptions kind of thing will be when they lose quite a lot of people, I'd predict. Singleplayer games that are not browser-based should not require any external connection to use after some kind of verificaton activator thingie.

[Dsarker]

Will they? Remember, if they do this, and believe it is going to cost them customers, they're breaking the law.

[ECrownofFire]

The time they try to force gaming into a always-on all the time no-exceptions kind of thing will be when they lose quite a lot of people, I'd predict. Singleplayer games that are not browser-based should not require any external connection to use after some kind of verificaton activator thingie.

Well... they're kind of already doing it, so yeah.

[Aklyon]

Not really, they're just doing it with a few games by giving it to ubisoft and drm-ing the crap out of it.
I'd meant them doing this everytime for everything. (Steam does not count for this, since it's offline mode actually lets you do more than look at the pictures)

[Angel Of Death]

I go to get the Sims 3 world creator and guess what happens? EA demands my serial key. FFS EA, I don't have it on me right now and I've lost the Sims 3 book alongside my the cover of the game. Why won't you let me download this shit?

[nenjin]

The time they try to force gaming into a always-on all the time no-exceptions kind of thing will be when they lose quite a lot of people, I'd predict. Singleplayer games that are not browser-based should not require any external connection to use after some kind of verificaton activator thingie.

It's simply a matter of how much of the market has internet. That's it. We're part of a generation that remembers a time before the internet, when it wasn't a fact of life. Eventually......we're not going to be the focus of their marketing efforts and what not. They'll be preaching about always-on to a generation that has never been off....why should they care if a SP game requires the internet? They won't remember a time when they didn't. They can't play games on their phone while it's off the network...why should their PC be any different?

And the indie scene doesn't really help that situation at all. Why? Because you need internet to even have access to the indie scene. We benefit from always being on as much as we resist efforts to capitalize on it.

So yeah. Once that barrier in the public's perception of always-on changes.....game play will follow suit. There will always be games out there that don't require you to stay connected, but eventually they'll be a novelty, rather than the standard in the AAA realm.

[squeakyReaper]

Evacuated for Hurricane Irene, which...  Magically didn't affect my area.  The dunes just deflected everything.  Pets are almost dead due to being finicky (chinchilla is too hot, bearded dragons too cold), have to drive five hours back...  No way of knowing the hurricane would do nothing, but still pissed.