Beware of BioWare!

[nando2002]

Mind your language - you don't need to insult others just because you don't like them.

Atari was the creator of many consoles like 2600, 5200, etc and many games - good old days
Atari after the disaster years ago with the Tetris game - Nintendo wins the battle against Atari in the Tetris game - the company change a lot. Nowadays they are a publisher - just like Blizzard is coming to be and others will follow - and so they don't need to create game but to distribute them. The bugs are not related to them but the devs companies Atari supports. If Atari or other publisher don't support devs companies (paying them to produce games) you don't play games.
What Atari is trying to do is just what JoWood did/does: create a custom protection system to protect their investment.

[wolfsrain]

I don't remember Jowood doing an invasive copyprotection. Today's Atari it's not Atari anymore. And from this fall it will be completely integrated in Infogrames as they've bought the rest of the shares. So Infogrames owns now the whole Atari. I've had a great deal of respect for the old Atari, but the new Atari it's just a company who uses the brand. Nothing else.
Atari promised the DLC for Test Drive Unlimited on PC. They've delivered a bastard product. You can only download the product and activate 3 times. LIke you will install the game only 3 times. NWN2 it has more patches than the first(way more). No cumulative updates. You need to have a lot of space to install the patches. Crashes due to the poorly implemented protection which hampers the game. What they fix in one patch they are braking in the next one, while trying to update the protection.
So I'd wish That EA take the DND license from Wizards of The Coast or buy Infogrames(which it's not doing so bright either, they've barey managed to go on profit).
And unfortunately the big companies would rather have a full control over the products they are publishing.
So my support goes to companies like Stardock, which are trying to offer a good game at a decent price, a game made to work on most of the systems, with no invasive copy protection and only the need to register the game to have access to the support section and some extra content. I'd like to see more companies adoptin this model. But they would rather blame the pirates for every failure. And saying that the today's people prefer short games with fabulous graphics. But you can't play graphics, and most of us would rather have more than 4 hours of gameplay(Frontline : Fuel of War, The Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, just to name a few such games) and something that wouldn't make us upgrade our PC at about 3-4 months.