Omegavegeta wrote:
More annoying because Origin is saying they weren't hacked, which would mean instead it was a glitch that caused EA's stupid DRM service to buy copies of Fifa on Christmas eve.
Or a group of people out there got access to a bunch of username/passwords and decided to ***** with them. They do it all the time across multiple platforms and games. D3, GW2, Xbox Live, etc, have all had big "omg hacks" moments that end up being just standard account hijackings caused by poor user security. Someone logged into my Xbox Live account one day many years ago and purchased two $20 xbox points with my credit card which was on the account. They didn't do anything with the points, they just apparently did it to spend the money and ***** with me. I got my money back after about a week, and then a week later I got even more money back (a second refund) it was weird, but the ended up double refunding me, and it never got corrected. They also gave me a free month of Gold.
angrymnk wrote:
the only drm I can sort of deal with on PC ( since securom debacle ) is steam and I create a separate account for each game that requires it anyway...
OMG... Why?!
Edit:
Here's the old Xbox Live hijacking thread I made.
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=22&mid=132240606880315205
Interestingly enough... guess what was centered around the fiasco? FIFA and EA.
Those FIFA games are pretty popular over in Eastern Europe, and that area also seems to be where a lot of these hijackers come from. It sounded like, back then, a group had stolen Xbox Live and EA origin account info in order to buy FIFA and points for it to play...
Edited, Jan 1st 2015 7:48pm by TirithRR