The Sims Life Stories

[TippeX]

personally i've had no problems with securom protected games...
and yep ea use securom... all i can say is don't believe the hype

chances are that if you buy the games from the ea download store then they'll be product activation based.. still securom... so if you don't like securom (do your own research though and come to your own conclusion.. don't believe all you read on the net) then you've really got 2 choices - (a) bite the bullet and play the game, (b) don't buy the game at all... or possibly (c) wait 10 ish years, and maybe a budget release happens which is unprotected (i wouldn't hold my breath on that one though)

[simbren]

Well I did that. I bought it at the store in a physical copy.

I just didn't realise the dvd had to be in the drive every time I play the game, so then I started to think the download may have been better for my netbook.

It's ok when I'm at home as I have my external dvd, but it's a netbook, so I move around a lot and would like to be able to play the game then also.