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Help me stick EA Games in the p00per... by navkat 07/12/2007, 2:06pm PDT
Hey guys,

I'm not a regular here but my friend, Chuk (Happiness Engine) frequents this board occasionally and I thought you might be able to help me.

Last year, I bought a copy of The Sims2 (shut up) and promptly found out that it was basically unusable on my piece-of-crap Sony Vaio. I gundecked the game to a drawer in a remote corner of the house and forgot about it.

I just got a new laptop with a better processor and 1GB of RAM and so I figured I'd try to use the game...and found a severe scratch which renders the entire disk-1 (out of four) useless.

I wrote to EA Games to request a new one. Note: I paid in full for the content on the disk. I have a valid reg number.

EA told me that for $13 plus shipping both ways ($21 total), I could send the damaged disk to them and they'd give me a new copy of disk-1...otherwise, go fuck myself. So pay for it twice, essentially.

I don't believe that I company as "cutting edge" and shrewd (I have my own gripes about EA after they ran my fiance into the ground when he worked for them last Xmas during one of their infamous "crunch times") about copyright/licensing/protection as EA, never ONCE had the thought cross their minds that they could allow the paying customer to download an ISO file for free...or even for cheap once I proved that I own the rights to to use the game.

"No exceptions," they say...So I figured I'd just steal it.

I'm here asking you people to provide me with a good, working image-file of disk one of The Sims 2 and in turn, I will allow you to share my valid registration number for your own private use...if that's your bag, baby.

It's not much but it would certainly contain a level of poetic irony for me to add one more pirate to the list in response to EA attempting to give me a deep-dicking.

I leave it to you, gentlemen.

-jenn
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Help me stick EA Games in the p00per... by navkat 07/12/2007, 2:06pm PDT NEW
    Better idea: Don't play games that suck shit. NT by Mischief Maker 07/12/2007, 2:15pm PDT NEW
    You need help sticking EA Games in your pooper? Start smaller. by Fussbett 07/12/2007, 2:32pm PDT NEW
    http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=9689 NT by Happiness Engine can help with torr 07/12/2007, 2:34pm PDT NEW
    You should ask them to rename the game to The Sims 2: Shut Up. by Jhoh Cable o_O 07/12/2007, 3:35pm PDT NEW
    BOYS ONLY NT by CLUBHOUSE SIGN 07/13/2007, 12:57pm PDT NEW
        THAT'S A GOOD START 8) NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 07/13/2007, 2:54pm PDT NEW
    I AM ALSO A GIRL! by Histrionic Personality Disorder 07/13/2007, 8:35pm PDT NEW
    Additionally: by Avenging Disco Godfather 07/13/2007, 8:38pm PDT NEW
    EA is really really really really bad at customer service NT by Grumah 07/14/2007, 4:10am PDT NEW
 
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