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Spore - The actual game
Dimmukane:
In this instance, they're using something similar to what they did with Mass Effect, I think.
I originally had money on this, but I'm running out of money (Statik, you know why), so I'm gonna cancel the pre-order. I think it'll be a fun game, for sure, but I get the feeling I'm not gonna have as much time to play games this semester, so I'm only buying the games at the top of the list. I'll come back to the ones I missed over winter break.
I'm somewhat tempted to just download the game and mail them a check instead, though. They deserve the money, but the anti-piracy measures that some companies are taking is getting ridiculous.
numb3rb0y:
The DRM is pretty crushing. You get three installs, and uninstalling doesn't top up that total. If you swap out any internal hardware it counts as an extra install, and you have to call EA tech support to get them to reset your total, assuming they're willing to.
Suffice it to say I won't spend my money on something so damned authoritarian. It pisses me off to no end since I've been looking forward to this game for years, I'm not about to reward EA for crippling legitimate users when the pirates have already broken the DRM.
Dimmukane:
In all honesty, I think that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pirate the game and mail them a check for 50$. Not going to get it for a few months, at any rate, I've got a lot on my plate. I've been playing Too Human more than is probably healthy, and it'd probably get more attention from me than Spore would, so I'm going to wait.
Statik:
Well, I already have the DRM stripped version on my computer, and I might just reinstall from the crack with my legit serial once I purchase it.
Also, my brother has advanced in the game farther than me (Damn my need to shoot people in their faces!), and has gotten to the world uniting/conquering stages of the game, when you have to make multiple types of vehicles / buildings / etc.
Still seems to hold together well, I think the game will be even more interesting a couple months down the road when hundreds or thousands of people have made different creatures / buildings / vehicles / etc.
I honestly hope the whole less-than-48hrs-cracked-and-on-the-net will be a giant wake up call to EA and other big publishers that programs like SecuROM quite simply DO NOT WORK. How often does a shitty copy protection scheme need to be utterly destroyed in order to prove its worthlessness?
Back on topic, I spent about 2 hours last night just making tanks and boats and such, the creator is almost as much fun as the game itself, I can't wait to see what people do with it.
KvP:
Word of mouth around the sites I frequent has been overwhelmingly negative. The word of the day is "shallow". I haven't played it yet, but the incredibly narrow range of actions you could make your creature undertake in the creator worried me. Looks like I may have been right.
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