I’m sure everyone now has read the article about Battlefield 2142 being bundled with Spyware.

Completely ridiculous, is what I have to say. More reason to stay away from titles being released by EA. Which is sad because EA owns exclusive rights to a couple licenses, and some of their titles are absolutely amazing. That being said, we don’t need some company monitoring how we use our computer, so they can profit from it. At least, it appears that they are going to be trying to turn a profit by using this information for in game ads.

At least they are being upfront with the whole situation, but it’s still complete bull. We don’t need more advertisements in games. Unless the publishers are going to start giving these games away for free. If the games were free, I could understand the want to have in-game advertisements, but thats not the case. As gamers, we fork out hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars every year towards the gaming industry. Is that not enough? I guess companies just need to make a couple extra million a year by making us watch advertisements.

I can just picture it now, instead of watching a loading screen, you will soon be watching a commercial for Coca-Cola, or something along those lines. It will only be a matter of time until something like this happens. Which will be a sad day for gaming.

As gamers we should take a stand and not let this happen. This is unnecessary and will only cause the quality of games to sink down the tubes. Companies will no longer be seeking how to make the most amount of money by releasing a hot game. Instead they will be more focused on how to cram as many advertisements into a 10-20 hour span as possible.

Did EA not learn from Sony’s mistakes? Sure they say they are not watching for piracy. Don’t put that past them. I’m confident that there is more than 1 reason this Spyware is going to be installed on your system. Who knows, maybe it will scan your whole hard drive and report back to EA which games you have, and if they are legit or not.

Hopefully EA includes a way to opt-out, or I’m quite sure this game’s success will be inhibited.