I think something reasonable should be in place. Or find a way to price it where people would rather buy the game than download it. If anything, nothing totally unreasonable from what we're having to jump through thus far.
In my opinion, EA should ditch their DRM policy and SecuROM and just go back to the way they were when the sims 2 was first released. If they don't, theres no doubt that The Sims 3 will get cracked before it's even released, just like what happened to spore.
In what perspective? In terms of cost of development, then yes. In overall game costs, probably a drop in the bucket where loss of revenue is factored into the equation due to piracy.
Whoa, that's a very quick reply. Well, since DRM doesn't stop piracy at all. Then, why bother using DRM?
I found: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20655 Then read the comment from 'Anonymous'