I han an experience with always online way back i think 2011 or 13 cant really remember but it was this little game called dark spore i had been going through my dad's old gameinformer magazines and that's how i found it but after it was installed it wouldn't play turns out the servers were shutdown the year before i got my hands on it<br><br>Not to mention i think 3ish years later my computer got upgraded to windows 7 from xp and all my physical games that had a cd-key wouldn't run as it turns out a certian little disease called safedisc turns out was being used as a sort of copy protection and who would've guessed that it was a major security breach to the point windows dropped it in 2014 (i think) so i had nearly 10+games on disc that have now juat become paperweights unless i pirated them (by game company standards anyways) just so i can replay games i love.<br><br>Tl;dr what a surprise EA lead the charge in shitty practice lile always online and safedisc is why 90% of 2010 games don't work.