What's your take on Securom?
danceswithwands:
Sytem: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition V.2002 Service Pack 3, Dell Dimension DM051, Intel(R), Pentium(R) D CPU, 2.80 GHz, 2.79 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM, RADEON X300 SE 128MB Hyper Memory - did I forget anything ???
I have the original Sims2 game, ALL expansion packs, and ALL stuff packs except the new Ikea Stuff (which I am not going to buy).
I have not had any known issues with my system since installing and running these games, eps, sps. My game runs fine, I put in the disk, it loads, I play.
It doesn't crash (since I did the patch anyways).
NOW- I am not saying that suck-u-rom is good... it just hasn't been an issue for me on this particular computer.
I am almost certain that it did however have something to do with the fatal meltdown of the older pc we had before this one. ;)
I've been leary of other games too because of all this "stuff" these companies are cramming down our throats... IE- Portal/The Orange Box... heard of it?
Oh yes- we got all kinds of CRAP installed on our pc- it totally fried our other Dell... we ended up having to buy a new pc. GRRRR
So- while I don't agree with the way this SecuRom is shoved on us by EA/Maxis.... they aren't the only ones that are sticking lots of un-wanted crud on the games we buy.
As far as "are they going to fix it?"
Don't hold your breath...
I have all the ep's... all of which had "issues" that I had to seek out hacks, mods, and fixes for.
I have all the sp's... all of which had "issues" that I had to seek out hacks, mods, and fixes for.
I am not buying the Ikea one because I'm tired of being the "test dummy".
Besides... what choice do companies have but to try to "secure" their property from theives?
It's a no-brainer... as long as people are stealing the software... there is going to be an effort to secure it.
If a few pc's die along the way... well... that's the price we all have to pay for there being bad-apples in the world I guess. ;)
I won't be doing much whining about any of this though... because I simply cannot imagine "NOT" playing the Sims...
It's kinda like oreos and peanut m&M's...
They make me fat... I don't like being fat... but I'm not gonna stop eating them... LMAO
I feel bad for anyone whose having problems with their computers because of the SecuRom crap. I guess I've been lucky. :)
(off to knock on wood...)
CuriousSimmer:
Securom sucks and EA should be punished for screwing with us. That's my take.
gali:
I don't have any problem with the Securom - I only have to restart my computer, after surfing, or updating something in any of my files. After that, all works fine, no crashes, no nothing.
blueeyesangel19:
Everything was fine on my laptop i had up to free time installed on my laptop and then decided to get bon voyage, installed it and played it a couple of times. I use to always leave the disk in the tray as i didn wanna go searching for it each time. Then one day i clicked on the sims desktop icon and it said please insert disk!! it was already in so i ejected it, put it back in and tryed again...got the same message so i went to my computer icon and my cd drive had dissapeared from there! After that nothing would work so i though maybe its a driver issue took the laptop to the pc repair guy who after testing said the drive itself was broke!!(it was a dvd/RW drive) I could not believe it my laptop had to be sent off for three weeks and i also got him to wipe the drive as it was running very slow. I really believe that secuRom on bon voyage did this to my laptop i now only have up to free time installed and never leave the disk in the tray and everything seems ok but im scared to purchase any new eps or even the sims3 which is a bit sad
AlbinoBambi:
That's not logical at all blueeyesangel, SecuRom is also on Freetime, so since you already had FT installed, there's no way SecuRom on BV could've caused your issues, because it's exactly the same as on FT.
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