Actually I believe this is helping, we're one step closer towards the masses realizing they are living in a giant corporate turd.

If they do that they're just begging for their games to be pirated so these fascist enforcements can go away.

The good thing about the beta is that it will allow hackers to work on a bnet-to-lan emulator, which shouldn't really be harder than tracking packets and learning what they do.

heck if pirated servers for wow were functionnal before the actual game launched, this should be real easy to code.

It still should be optional, people should be free to decide whether they want to use the bnet integration or not. I myself will most likely run sc2 behind a firewall when i play the single player campaign to not be bothered and find a bnet-to-lan utility for lan gaming.

Man, that new version must have sucked balls.

That would explain why our entire economy is flooded with uncreative people polluting our markets with useless gizmos so they can buy themselves volvos and play golf.

You know, with each new government action that gets posted here on slashdot, my hope in democracy as it stands now fades away, I thought at one point it would disappears but now it appears I have negative hope towards democracy.

That system is now so corrupt it itself has trouble keeping track of what it stands for and makes decisions like.. texting health plans. That sounds like someone needing mass attention or wanting mass distractions to me.

But those toys were used to distract the mindless american consumers while the two assholes destroyed everything!

I don't think we ever were free in that respect to begin with :)

Doesn't it mean Cheap Negative News?

Biased news are still news.. somewhat.

Fool, everyone knows black loads faster than white!

Preach something, do something different. This is just one area out of hundreds where the government do that, I don't see anything new here.

I never tried it, I didn't like the first one very much, gameplay was too repetitive for my tastes.

I agree, EA has to be one of the game companies i dislike the most. Their games have little to no replay value, if any value in the first place. Its obvious they're in it for the money and not the games themselves.

If you have to spend 3 times the money of development for marketing alone, its a pretty strong sign that you're selling crap and not giving a shit about your customers, all you want is their money.

The state of our entire entertainments industry today is very sad, everything is more about money than it is about quality.

Ever since they began taking a percentage of my transactions, I stopped using Paypal whatsoever for the freelance work I do.

Paypal was nice when it began, but the more time passes the more annoyinng it becomes.