EA games being blocked in Japan?

This is already the second time I can’t play a Electronic Arts (EA) game online on the internet. I’ve tried to play Battlefield 2142 and Command and Conquer 3 online this year. Both allowed registration of a user account, however when trying to login I get a connection timeout or “can’t connect to server” error. Earlier I wrote about the problem with Battlefield. I’m not a computer n00b and I’m server the router is allowing all necessary traffic. I even connected the computer to the internet directly to test that theory. Still it didn’t work.

So why only EA games? Because all other games I play(ed) online work perfectly. Half-life, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament 3, Guild Wars, World of Warcraft and probably a few more.

Why would EA do such a thing? Maybe because I have the English-version of these games and they only allow the Japanese-version of these games to connect to their servers from Japan? That would be so stupid. Anyway, it only proves more how much EA sucks and why they shouldn’t have a monopoly in the gaming-world.

Ow and by the way, the Mac-versions of almost all EA-games run on Cider (the Mac version of Wine/Cedega). First of all Cider’s DirectX emulation is not up-to-date or the same as the windows DirectX, so the in-game graphics just suck. And second, Cider is emulating the Windows API. That sounds slow, doesn’t it? Well it damn IS.

Blaahh! Don’t buy EA games everyone! It makes things only worse.

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