Love The Sims, but hate Electronic Arts' extreme digital rights management schemes? Luckily for you the upcoming third edition of the successful people simulator will not feature "DRM methods that feel overly invasive."
A post by Rod Humble (the head of EA's Sims division) on the official Sims blog explains the game's copy protection:
The game will have disc-based copy protection – there is a Serial Code just like The Sims 2. To play the game there will not be any online authentication needed.
We feel like this is a good, time-proven solution that makes it easy for you to play the game without DRM methods that feel overly invasive or leave you concerned about authorization server access in the distant future.
I'd say that's good news for all those PC gamers planning to buy The Sims 3. As I've said over and over again during the last few days, the only good DRM is no DRM, and it seems that EA learned its lesson after the critical and consumer backlash over the restrictive scheme the firm employed in 2008's Spore.