one more EA fail story

I remember losing my CD Key for Spore (Also the first expension)
I went to support, SHOWED them that my EA Account had Spore stuff in it, SHOWED them my Spore account, SHOWED them a picture of the discs. They wanted $30 for the CD Keys anyways...

This happened to all my games (Mom decided to keep Cds but throw the cases out, With the Keys in em)
The only one I really regret loosing is C&C Tiberium Wars really, But it still pisses me off that EA is such a scumbag of a company -.-

About Origin: I refuse to buy any EA games from now on, Im not gonna install a whole other thing just to play 1 damn game, Its enough with Steam... I dont wanna end up with a million different game managing programs :\

So, Valve does nothing but add an extra layer of DRM, and they're heroes

EA make sure their games work on steam, and they stink?

Thanks, just purchased Spore in Origin let me see if it works.

there's really been a whole lot of these stories lately, Im really enjoying myself :P I am personally boycotting every EA product (with the exception of Dragon Age Origins which I still want) since the ME3 day 1 DLC and the BF3 shortcut items. I've tried Origin but it just hasnt got the social features that Steam has (and lacks free games to lure you in).

This has happened to me with Spore, and all the Battlefield games. All the battlefield games that are not BC2 or BF3 do not work, cannot create keys for or anything. And yet they still sell the non-functional games. I bought BF2 on steam.... wont work, talked to support over 20 times, they cant do anything about it. Also redeemed my CD keys on Origin, they dont work either. Redeemed my spore key on origin, doesnt work, bought it on steam, works. The battlefield series is my favorite games. But the company has made me uninstall every EA game I own, and I wont go back until they actually care about the players, which doest seem to be for awhile.

Did you try the key for the key steam steam?

i had problems with spore too. i had bought maxis games in the past (simcity and simcity 2000) but hadn't bought anything from ea before. turns out ea is so bad that they brought maxis down with them. it's a shame because the idea had a lot of potential, but it got abandoned early -- probably because ea realized they already had everyone's money and fixing the serious bugs wouldn't actually get them any more money. i already didn't like ea so bought spore and its expansions used, but now i know that buying anything that ea is involved with is a waste of money.

EA must have a different evil objective, because if they wanted spore to only sell through origin, they wouldn't allow it to be sold on steam in the first place. what could they be planning...

Speaking of Spore...

I remember purchasing the galaxy something edition, and when I tried to redeem it on origin, it doesn't work. I asked support for help, instead she told me to ask the retail shop for a refund.

EA support fail.

I remember getting spore and activating it on my family's computer. We had to wipe the computer, so I reactivated it. When we got a new computer, it wouldn't let me activate it since it had been activated twice. That ended my days playing such an awesome game.

There should really be a EA hate group for all you haters then..

I think EA actually want us to pirate their games... that's the most realistic thing I can come up with. They don't give a shit on purpose and offer very shitty service so we would start pirating their games. Their goal is to make as many of us pirate their games and make us want to play multiplayer of their games and thats where they get us, we have to get a serial key in order to do that... clever.

I also got spore and this same issue happened. A patch just killed it. So I just play without patching it on another computer but still EA is starting to piss me off.

Yeah, well, when I bought Spore on Steam, it took me a week of contacting support before the keys were actually accepted and I got to make my account.

EA being greedy? ...
This is my shocked face.

sins of an ea empire?

not 100% connected with the topic but at least 98% is---> http://torrentfreak.com/spore-most-pirated-game-ever-thanks-to-drm-080913/
EA is going down every single day. Wrong choices brings up Bad consequences xD

What that patch was all about?

Weird thing, but in Russia Origin prices are often much higher than Steam ones.
Also, they lost my BC2 when renamed their system to Origin... Really, they just lost the freaking game from my account?
Last time I bought smth from Origin was ME3. And I had problems (surprise!). Since Alt+Tab would often just hang the game, I had to use Origin overlay browser. Which would often hang the game by himself or just be incredibly laggy. Lost connection to Origin (I never lost the internet connection, btw)? "F*CK YOU! We close your game!" Not to mention that ME3 is pretty buggy by itself.
Never going to buy any game on Origin again.

Maybe EA just didn't provide some patches on Steam (including the one that broke the game). And this is why SPORE is still working on Steam.

So far I bought one EA game (FIFA Manager 11) and noticed the latest patch is missing. And no way to install it manually, it doesn't work with the Steam version.