People who are complaining about this are incredibly pathetic and need to get a life.

Especially the dude who harassed the customer support reps for an hour.

I can't play until I get paid on Friday, maybe I should blame EA for making the game's price on par with the competition too? Yeah, they should have knocked it down to $20 for retail and not be so greedy.

I don't think you understand. This sets a trend for future games. While its all done and over with, the fact is that the trend leads us in a direction where software companies could potentially "release" software but not let you use it for an indeterminate period of time. It's not bad now, but it potentially could be.

Not sure if you're a software developer or not, but if you were, you might understand what I'm referring to.