Maybe EA should realise that 3999 is not a sensible RRP for a PC game.

Price and honour has nothing to do with this. You can't hype up a release to the levels The Sims 3 – and several other games for that matter – and then cry foul when they try which ever way to get it as soon as possible.

Sure, some will pirate it because they don't want to pay for it, but I bet the vast majority of downloads will be because of people being unable to wait another two weeks after they've been lathered up into a frenzy of demand.

Bob, 39 99 might be rrp but Amazon have it for 29, so dont talk crap about pricing.
Pete, As for hyping a game, well, thats what Marketing is all about is'nt it? Red Dear Revolver, not out till Christmas has a trailer released, so by your book this is too early and too much? What about Max Payne? etc etc, should games only be hyped the week of release, just so people dont get overly excited and steal it instead of waiting?
These two posts seem to be just more reaons for EA to go back to to using DRM software which is a bad thing all round. EA trusted-experimented with the market after the grief they got from the Spore release in the slightly naive belief that the removal of DRM software would mean people would no longer need to download pirated games, unfortunatly they have been proved wrong.
This does give the impression that all those promises of buying the games if customers were treated with respect have turned out to be hollow and I am beginning to see EA's side. I guess a lepoard does'nt change his spots, once a thief, always a thief.

and they take a mile.

/sarcastic hand clap

Well done. No really well done. You complained that EA's DRM were too strict so they listened to you. They relaxed the rules and you went and uploaded it. Congratulations!

But seriously, all these idiots have done is spoil it for the genuine and honest pc games buyers who'd struggled with the DRM. And as for blaming it on a high price or it being marketed? Dear oh dear! Something tells me you wouldn't even bother scouring the torrents if it hadnt been marketed.

If you read my original post you may notice that I do not make any connection between the high rrp and the game being available on the torrent site.

I was not attempting to use price as a defence for theft, I was trying to highlight the ludicrously inflated rrp that EA use as justification for a stupidly high trade price - That yes Anon Amazon have for £29 and I fully expect Supermarkets will have for significantly less.

If you post a single line comment about the higher pricing in a story that covers the title being pirated. Are you not implying you think that the two issues are linked?

@1: Why not?

Pretty much every console game is that price, why should PC games be any less? Are you getting less of a game as a PC owner? Did it take them less time to make the PC version of the game?

Don't tell me, you'll pay £300 for a graphics card to play a game, but you think £40 is unreasonable for the game to play on it? Is it any wonder PC elitists get such a bad rep, when they expect the same (if not more) for less.

If this game was £10, it would still be on the torrent sites and people would be downloading it. You only have to look at the music industry for proof of that.

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