EA has created such a terrible reputation for itself. I like The Sims, but I learned long ago not to get any add-ons until after it's been out for a while and people have made reviews about them. There are some packs, like the High School Years pack, where persistent, unsolved bugs make key elements of the pack unplayable. That pack came out three years ago and still hasn't been fixed, and I'm not getting it until/unless those issues become resolved... which they probably never will be.

They still try to shove ads in your face multiple times on start up (and embedded a fucking shopping cart symbol to a menu that's visible during game play... which fucking pulses until you click on it.) Hey EA, if you want my money so bad, how about you fix your shit to make it worth my money? No amount of obnoxious ads will convince me to buy something unplayable.

Nr. 1 top seller on steam. These are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

Agreed it's far to little too late. I've proudly avoided EA like the plague for a few years now and haven't missed out on anything worthwhile

I believe the rumour mill had this requiring the TPM secure boot.

This is what stopped a lot of users upgrading to windows 11 also.

i don't know if you've ever seen professional competitive fps gamers, but their aim and hearing can be insane. they're almost equivalent to an aimbot. They can react in a hundred milliseconds and then lock on a head to such an extent that it really does look like a lock-on. When the enemy moves very fast they can still predict enemy movement based on their player character's animation, keeping the lock-on. Flying enemies are at their mercy as well, because they fly in a predictable arc. They can perfectly counter weapon recoil patterns because they've trained on them. I know there's the valve approach of banning cheaters based on suspicious behavior, but at an extremely high level it's almost impossible to separate cheaters from extremely good players, especially if the cheating gets more subtle. I really do dislike kernel anticheat and I use linux myself, but there are reasons for it.

I have bf4 and steam takes care of the whole ea login, maybe it's your setting or something? That being said, EA killed all the other battlefield games on the deck with poorly thought out anti cheat, so ya, Fuck EA.

This was my first thought too. Evil corp can always alter the deal further.

How about progs

Why? It’s just short for application, which has been used to mean a computer program for decades.

Why?