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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why'
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:20:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 22:13 this Friday (GMT):
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:15:05 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
> Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 
>
>>The sad thing is, I still think EA is one of the _better_ triple-A
>>publishers... because the rest of them are even worse!
>>
> I remember back in the C=64 days when I would buy anything published by
> EA, because they were *that* good. Of course I would immediately crack
> their stupid 10 minute long half-track loader (their proprietary DRM) and
> have the game load up in 3 seconds with FastLoad.
>
> And for people who didn't crack the endless EA logo loading screen? I
> made a fortune realigning 1541 hard drives so it would work. I always
> offered the pirate tool though.
>
> But still, Archon, Seven Cities of Gold, MULE. They were amazing.


Wait, why did the DRM take so long?
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