EA here employs the use of the latest SecuROM copy protection, the (similar Windows) makes an Internet activate the game needed and downloading game patches allowed only through a special program. This can be everything get over if you're accustomed to Windows, but the biggest catch is that these restrictive copy protection also allows only a limited number of installations. So if its system for performance or other reasons, regular remodels, reinstalled, or the like, will have reached this limit after only a short time. Then all that remains is the call to the inhuman expensive EA hotline where you can then beg for another installation and then only on presentation of the purchase documents. This type of use restriction and paternalism, allegedly to protect against pirates, is precisely those warm little itch! Just look at as only the record-breaking distribution of the above spore in relevant piracy networks and the one at that in a rapid speed. No better way to EA not to realize how ineffective these measures.
I for one do not see it to be treated from the outset as a potential criminal, if the protection so clearly fails in exactly this group!
Resale (especially if not satisfied) is thus also considerably more difficult, if not impossible. Those who buy a game that it can not be used indefinitely as he wants? I do not in any case!