Spore DRM
It's a bit sad that Spore is getting savagely raped in complaints over something that has little to do with the actual game itself.
Then again, given the big flap over Mass Effect not too long ago, by doing pretty much the exact same thing all over again with Spore, EA is bringing all this on themselves.
When are devs (or, more appropriately, publishers) going to wise up and finally learn that this kind of crap does jack and shit to stop pirates and does everything to harm consumers of their products, either driving them toward piracy in order to find a means to play the broken game that they bought, or simply driving them away from their future products altogether?
Well, at any rate, it didn't stop me from pre-ordering Spore (my copy should be here by tomorrow, hopefully), and I'm personally not as militantly opposed to all of this as many others seem to be, but I can certainly see why they're so pissed off over this and are refusing to buy the game outright.
As for the comments regarding the gameplay itself, I can't really say anything about that given that I haven't played the game yet. We'll see come tomorrow, but I have a feeling that, at least as far as I'm concerned, it won't be as bad as many are making it seem.
Then again, given the big flap over Mass Effect not too long ago, by doing pretty much the exact same thing all over again with Spore, EA is bringing all this on themselves.
When are devs (or, more appropriately, publishers) going to wise up and finally learn that this kind of crap does jack and shit to stop pirates and does everything to harm consumers of their products, either driving them toward piracy in order to find a means to play the broken game that they bought, or simply driving them away from their future products altogether?
Well, at any rate, it didn't stop me from pre-ordering Spore (my copy should be here by tomorrow, hopefully), and I'm personally not as militantly opposed to all of this as many others seem to be, but I can certainly see why they're so pissed off over this and are refusing to buy the game outright.
As for the comments regarding the gameplay itself, I can't really say anything about that given that I haven't played the game yet. We'll see come tomorrow, but I have a feeling that, at least as far as I'm concerned, it won't be as bad as many are making it seem.