SPORE

[Milla aka. the Slayer]

I was going to buy it or wish for it for Christmas but now knowing that there's an installation limit on it, I'm not so sure. What the heck are you gonna do in ten years if you still wanna play the game but got a new computer and don't have any more installs left?!! How would you acquire such an old game?! The life span of such a game is very short. That's a shame. I was so looking forward to it

[Angelspit]

I think you can call tech support and see if you can get more installations, but why such a hassle after you have paid $49.

[Milla aka. the Slayer]

Tech support?! Hmm, still, there are plenty of games without limitations that I wanna have. It just doesn't seem like the proper solution to the whole piracy problem. I think they'll lose fans over it.

[SoRHunter]

According to the latest news, EA has decided to remove some of the activation limits, due to bad press and the anger of its consumers.

Check this news.

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

I guess they recieved a lot of outrage and maybe recognized they were losing sales because of their stupid limitations. I might pick up the game now.

they’re switching to as many re-installs as you want on a maximum of five computers, with a patch for multiple accounts for one machine on the way. That’s a big change of heart.

[Milla aka. the Slayer]

Well, that surely turned everything upside down

[ThunderTitan]

I guess they recieved a lot of outrage and maybe recognized they were losing sales because of their stupid limitations. I might pick up the game now.

they’re switching to as many re-installs as you want on a maximum of five computers, with a patch for multiple accounts for one machine on the way. That’s a big change of heart.

I don't get why you didn't just buy it and the crack it... That's hardly piracy, unless you think you shouldn't be allowed to change the rims on your car etc.


And they always do that once a few months have passed and it's obvious that there's plenty of pirated copies out there (and in case of SPORE they broke the record for piracy because of the DRM... ah, the internet, is there anything you can't do?)

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

Errrrr because I don't use cracks for games. Hopefully EA nixing the DRM will spell the end of DRMs.

[Ethric]

Errrrr because I don't use cracks for games. Hopefully EA nixing the DRM will spell the end of DRMs.

Can't expect the old and grumpy to keep up with technology, eh?

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

Errrrr....cracks are illegal. I am pretty up to speed with technology, thank you very much.

[Wolfsburg]

Errrrr....cracks are illegal. I am pretty up to speed with technology, thank you very much.

Remembers me a good old song from RUSH, The color of right: (refrain) ...you're so full of what is right you can't see what is true...

I myself would answer a bit different to TTs question: I wouldn't buy it under such circumstances because I want them to reconsider their bad choice. And being a customer, there is no better way to do it, then basically not buying their product. IMO, paying them right from the start is not much of a way to make my insatisfaction clear. .

And I know how skeptic you are TT, Im already waiting for the whole: your miserable bucks make no difference when everyone else is paying meatloafs of money for it.

But I still like to fantasize I make a big difference. Thats what keeps my boycots going strong.

But anyway, I lost my appetite for it: no Spores for me thanks! (I am sure I heard Corribus saying that before )

[Ethric]

Errrrr....cracks are illegal. I am pretty up to speed with technology, thank you very much.

Errrrr... Is it a motorbike? A blender? Some cardboard fastened to a childs bike? Who can tell

Though sorry to hear cracks are illegal where you live. Around here (Norway) consumer rights are valued higher than business' desire to cause difficulty.

[ThunderTitan]

Errrrr because I don't use cracks for games. Hopefully EA nixing the DRM will spell the end of DRMs.

Except they haven't... they just made the DRM less draconic...

Errrrr....cracks are illegal.

That might depend on where you are... but even then no more the any mods.

I'm pretty sure over here as long as i don't sell the modifications it isn't (of course the way they change laws at random i'm not sure atm).

I wouldn't buy it under such circumstances because I want them to reconsider their bad choice.

I was wondering because they haven't actually stopped with the DRM, just modified it, so it's hardly taking a stand... espeacily since only 3 installs is unrealistic considering space requirements and formating.

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

Errrrr... Is it a motorbike? A blender? Some cardboard fastened to a childs bike? Who can tell

Ummmm...I was puzzled at your suggestion that I become a wanton criminal.

Though sorry to hear cracks are illegal where you live. Around here (Norway) consumer rights are valued higher than business' desire to cause difficulty.

Well, you know, evil capitalist system and all.

[ThunderTitan]

And as i already said, mods are also illegal according to the EULA... also, i'm not really sure if cracks are even illegal in America, as i recall some guy winning a suit over there about the EULA not being biding as you only agree to it after purchase and getting the product home...

But i'm too bored to look it up.

[Chai26]

played the game recently, actually not so bad, i love the cell stage
the creature stage was rather nice
the tribal stage deserves to burn............

[Veldrynus]

The most annoying thing about the game are the every-two-minute random events in the space stage, which require your immediate return to one of your colonies in order to defend it against enemies/pirates/eco-disasters. You cannot have the fun of comfortably exploring the Universe, which would be the point of that stage. They need to fix it.

[Chai26]

The most annoying thing about the game are the every-two-minute random events in the space stage, which require your immediate return to one of your colonies in order to defend it against enemies/pirates/eco-disasters. You cannot have the fun of comfortably exploring the Universe, which would be the point of that stage. They need to fix it.

you actually played that far?

[dallasmavs41]

I picked this up a week or so ago, and it's a nice game.

Yeah, I sorta lose focus and stop playing once I get to the 3rd stage. I think the first 2 stages are great and fun, but for some reason I never finish playing the tribal stage. The civ and space stages sound fun though, so I'll probably give it a shot again.