You Must Be Connected to EA Servers to access...

Many who have had the misfortune of owning any of the recent iterations of the Tiger Woods golf game in the past few years, produced by EA Sports, has seen the dreaded message that begins something akin to "You must be connected to EA Servers in order to access the online features of this title..." The problem being that you KNOW you have a perfectly good online connection at the time this message appears. Unfortunately, like many of the previous years of this franchise, the 2010 game is subject to these rolling blackouts of accessibility to their servers. They will tell you all about the memory cache of your router, problems tracing your connection paths etc... The theme being, it's on YOUR end, not theirs. Wrong. Other game titles, not made by EA Sports, play in their intended online fashion on the same connection, just not this title. Hmmm. Seems to be a trend. I've read a million exchanges on gaming forums reflecting the same frustration by many EA Sports TW golf gamer. Memo to EA, this is beyond frustrating, please get it fixed, or EA Sports will not be able to access the features of the legal tender located in my wallet for any future game they produce.