Yes, the uprising to the stupid Copy protection/management policy that EA has enforced upon customers of SPORE.
The People Have Spoken: ‘Spore’ Is Ruined By Its Own DRM
EA's Spore hit by DRM backlash
Spore losing the DRM Fight
Customer Reviews (Keeps adding 1 star reviews, but pretty sure to change soon, since there are not REAL reviews)
Now, unfortunately I'm not sure EA will actually listen. A similar thing had happen to BIOSHOCK, which introduce the incredibly stupid 3 installation rule also used in SPORE, and yet given how good Bioshock was, it hurt sales very little. (2K was brave enough to leave on their forums a "If you need to have your game refunded, here's how." topic for this issues)
I'm guessing SPORE might have the same effect. Though plenty of people will go ahead and download a crack version of it, the game will be good enough to make enough sales to keep EA from removing the insane rules. (I hope I'm wrong and EA will change on a later patch, but I'm not holding my breath to it. I am holding my purchase for now though)
Meanwhile good news from my favorite Game developer Stardock who knows how I like my games.
2 comments:
So Stardock is better than Bioware and The Creative Assembly??
Yes :D
Way better than Bioware who forgot PC users for their love of XBox.
And for the Creative Assembly... hmm tough call. Creative still is a PC developer, and now is published by SEGA, which as a fanboy would make me like it more.
But Stardock is making impulse and is not adding DRM, so as a "progressive" developer Stardock wins.
Should I buy EMPIRE Total war?
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