Spore Sucks
Though you don’t need to read this post to find that out, do you? Just a nice trip down Amazon lane will tell you what everyone already knows: EVERYONE HATES INVASIVE DRM. Didn’t we play this SecuROM game awhile ago with Bioshock? Was anyone happy? And the sad part is, for the upcoming Command & Conquer 3, SR will be in full swing. EA is not going to back down on the tech, and eventually everyone will start complaining less and less about it.
I see a future, and it is dim; people won’t own the games they paid for and content will be on a rent-only basis at buy prices.
Well, it’s okay, everyone else can buy Spore and whatever shit EA packages along with it. All I know is that in my travels to Best Buy, Target, and a couple other retailers over the past few days, the game seems to not have left shelves.
One of my friends asked me about Spore yesterday, telling me they were having problems running it. My response? RETURN THAT SHIT.
Update – 09/12-08 – More EA Assholed-ness
According to ggmania.com, if you want more than 1 Spore account, you need to buy more copies of the game!
EA’s DRM spyware on the long-awaited game Spore turns out to have an added side-effect: if you live in a household with multiple players, you all have to share the same account. The game’s manual says otherwise, but after repeated queries on the EA forum, a company spokesperson confirmed this. That’s right – if you’re in a household with several potential Spore players, and you want each of them to have their own account, you will have to buy multiple copies of the game!
Woooooooooww. Good going EA, let the douchery continue!
-BD
I’d love to, but you can’t returned opened PC software anymore, because we’re all thieves. Of course, any console user can buy, sell, trade, rent, lend, loan, or lease their games, thereby insuring that the developer takes a hit from reduced sales if they produce shoddy product. We need to start making developers responsible again.