Spore Getting Blasted on Amazon for its DRM use.
Monday 8 September 2008 @ 8:06 pm | By Ben 'FBINinja' SchmidtIf you're new here and you like what you see, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed, and browse around for more fun stuff. Thanks for visiting!
Spore, the newest game by that Maxis genius Bill Wright, is not doing so hot with fans.
With a whopping 3 total activations, and upon startup you need to activate it online or no go.
The image attached explains what the gripe is quite nicely.
Amazon.com Buyers are sandblasting it with ratings of one or 2 stars, in response. One even complained that it wasn’t worth buying, since it was leaked 4 days before the release date.
A personal friend quite literally was the first person to preorder spore by 5 months in the country, was quite pissed off when he couldn’t play today because he lost his Internet connection for a week. He cannot play it until he gets an Internet connection. I say that’s a load of shit. Discuss in comments
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
Amy Fairchild
Chris 'Taco' Martinkovic
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Random J
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Vekter
seems a bit… i don’t know, retarded? to blast a game based on the DRM imposed upon it. how often do you feel the need to rapidly install, then uninstall the game, three times in a row? and chances are, since i have had dealings with having to prove purchase of a game before, if you have a computer screen, the physical media, and a cell phone, that shouldn’t be an issue in the slightest. also, deriding the game as being a rental only thing, purely because at some point in the future, the company will go out of business, seems laughable. why do people tolerate steam then? why don’t we all go out and rate every game that valve has ever made to the bottom of the stack? they have some drm, and the drm is web based.
expecting modern computer users to have an internet connection, especially for a game that is advertised as having a significant portion of the game content come from online, is reasonable.
the people rating the game low because of DRM are unreasonable anti-ip douches.
g’day.
@ David
On a site like Amazon you’re reviewing the product, not the game. It’s perfectly viable to rank it as one star because of the draconian lock-out systems.
I think there is a fair reason to gripe. How many times have you had to reinstall Windows b/c of a virus, malware, it just broke? Now imagine only being able to do it 3x. DRM in the fashion only hurts the consumers. How many times have you heard a pirate with real knowledge go “man I’d want to play the game, but the security is just so hard…”
If you are cracker this is a challenge. What would be better is if you had a game that if cracked doesn’t let you finish the very end or not complete a certain campaign.
I can understand anti-piracy methods, but a limit use install is the least likey to deter pirates.
As for rating the game on Amazon unless to specifically go to read the comments you type in Spore and see it has dismal ratings are you more or less liekly to buy?