At this point in time, DRM is useless in it's current form since the games it is trying to protect have always been cracked and put up on bittorrent long before they come out in stores, PC or console (ok, not PS3 yet but just wait). People are no longer copying games off of their friends that buy them, they download them off complete strangers around the world. So limiting installs to a couple machines is again useless. Your friend didn't buy the game? Who cares, go and get it from a torrent and that's it.

And to say that many DRM schemes don't harm PCs or hurt end users experience is absurd. StarForce was known for bricking PCs and causing many users to format their drives (who knows what numbers we are talking about here, but it certainly happened). Securom has big problems working properly with 64-bit operating systems. I had fun getting Fallout 3 to work when I got it, not a simple patch job, had to swap files manually, not something Joe Average PC user knows how to do. Red Alert 3 and Crysis: Warhead worked for me fine and those are older and use even more invasive Securom (so much for Games For Windows standards there).

Really, what's the point in spending millions on DRM solutions that don't work? No way to stop piracy unless bit torrent is shut down, and good luck with that.

DRM is currently punishing the people who buy the game, and the pirates get a greater sense of satisfaction from pirating a game which is meant to be protected.

Maybe game developers could look at a way to reward gamers for purchasing a game? i.e. registration either online or via post from something in the packaging. & then you gain access to bonus materials / extra levels? or even something posted back to you? Concept art book, or soundtracks? This could only apply to first time buyers, and not second hand products, also encouraging people to buy a game first hand?

@Fantasy Star - EA aren't all bad, look at Burnout Paradise. But yes I agree with you in most cases, I didn't buy Soul Calibar 4, as I thought it was a rip off to see DLC on the day of realease. Little Big Planet is another offender with paid DLC for costumes!! & I loved the idea for Need For Speed "Buy in Game Cars using Real Money via Xbox Live & PSN Transaction" They actually advertised this as a good feature of the game! give me a break! The only DLC I've paid for is COD4 extra maps, and that's because it adds to the experience, and appeared much later after launch.

You can torrent a copy of Farcry 2 easily and many games with DRM are available on day one. The only way to stop pirates is to offer content for registering or have a portal like Valve.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau