Far be it from us, your humble Corporate Raiders, to not bag on a product or company or CEO just because we like their products.

Yours truly has been a major fan of Electronic Arts’ sports lineup for years. Madden, NHL, and NBA Live are some great games and provide hours of entertainment, particularly when you go online and watch some 10 year old from Oklahoma bitch slap you with T-Mac shooting threes and dunkin on yo punk ass…

I digress…

EA is now assuming, much like Sony, that every customer is a potential pirate. In this case, EA is quite friendly about it, telling you how to get their games playing on your PC despite that pesky emulation software:

Question

What do you do when you get a “CD/DVD Emulation Software Detected” error?
Answer

This error is presented when active CD Emulation software is detected by the copy protection on the game CD. This software must be disabled for the game to launch properly. It is very common for CD/DVD copying software to include such software as a suite of products, so you will need to make sure that if your CD/DVD copying software includes such software that it is disabled as well. We have CD-ROM Troubleshooting steps along with information on background tasks available covering this issue to help resolve this issue but see our screenshots below for more detailed information.

Here’s a list of software that is known as, or known to include CD Emulation Software that could potentially prevent the game from playing properly:

* Fantom CD Emulator
* Alcohol 120%
* Nero Image Drive
* Phantom CD
* Clone CD
* Ark Virtual Drive

If you are unsure about how to turn off emulation settings, consult your emulation program help files. If you have emulation software not listed above that does not provide adequate information about how to turn off emulation to avoid software conflicts, and then remove the software from your machine.

It’s time to ponder the implications of this, folks. Once again, a media-producing company has assumed your only goal is to steal their product for fun or profit. To that end, EA is building their software to specifically not run on any computer where certain legal (keyword alert, folks) software is installed, even if for a legal purpose. Note, also, that the games will not function if the software is installed and not whether or not it’s being used to run EA software.

Its mere existence creates problems for them.

Shame on you, EA, for treating your customers like criminals simply for having software on their computers. This type of attitude is unacceptable from any company, including one that has built its gaming empire on the backs of the very people it refuses to trust now.

Source: Engadget and EA.com

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