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Re: Spore
« Reply #60 on: August 20, 2008, 11:52:26 am »
Quote from: Zironic on August 17, 2008, 03:55:31 pm
I personally don't mind, because SecuRom gives you back your install if you register it online and it registers an uninstall, and unless your buying 3 new pcs or reformatting constantly, then 4 or 3 is enough.
Yeah, that's when it "works". I remember after Bioshock came out and the system wasn't giving your "installs" back. So people would call tech support, who would then email them requesting a timestamped picture of their gamebox, disc, and receipt, then they would manually reset your "intalls".

Fuck SecuRom
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Re: Spore
« Reply #61 on: August 28, 2008, 08:30:26 pm »
SPORE IS COMING OUT NEXT WEEK!  :D :D :D

WOOOOOO!


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Re: Spore
« Reply #62 on: August 28, 2008, 08:45:07 pm »
Quote from: Neoskel on August 28, 2008, 08:30:26 pm
SPORE IS COMING OUT NEXT WEEK!  :D :D :D

WOOOOOO!


Ahem.

WOOOOOO! I didn't know it was next week!
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Re: Spore
« Reply #63 on: August 28, 2008, 09:42:46 pm »
Great.  I can't wait to wait and see what they ended up doing with the DRM and how much they dumbed it down before I decide whether or not to buy it! :D
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Re: Spore
« Reply #64 on: August 29, 2008, 01:45:54 am »
I've never really cared about DRM... stupid people can try and protect software all they want, but the fact is, if you try and protect it, there are people out there who will crack it, simply because they can.

DRM will die, eventually. In the meantime, you put up with its fleeting annoyances. Human nature will reign supreme once more.

Also, here in Australia it's coming out on the 4th. Most likely at about 4:00 in the afternoon (16 hours ahead down here ;)) I pre-ordered, because I heard you can destroy planets with a well-aimed comet.
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Re: Spore
« Reply #65 on: August 29, 2008, 02:09:38 am »
Australia? Do you happen to know anyone with the last name "Powley"? I doubt it, but worth a shot asking.

Concerning DRM, it's simply not worth it. Like Drug laws, people will simply do it because a corp or the government doesn't want them to. It also doesn't keep from multiple installs anyways, people who have the disk could very well lend the disk to a friend so they'd have it. Sure, DRM minimizes the likelihood of that, but it also minimizes the profits from the game due to people not buying it out of principle.
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Re: Spore
« Reply #66 on: August 29, 2008, 12:40:26 pm »
Quote from: Ioric Kittencuddler on August 28, 2008, 09:42:46 pm
Great.  I can't wait to wait and see what they ended up doing with the DRM and how much they dumbed it down before I decide whether or not to buy it! :D

Same DRM as Mass Effect. One time online activation using Securom 7
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Re: Spore
« Reply #67 on: August 29, 2008, 12:45:57 pm »
Quote from: Joseph Miles on August 29, 2008, 02:09:38 am
Australia? Do you happen to know anyone with the last name "Powley"? I doubt it, but worth a shot asking.

I knew a guy named Nick Power, but apart from that, no.

Also, Trevelyn. Those were the days.
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Re: Spore
« Reply #68 on: August 29, 2008, 12:51:00 pm »
Last I heard it was 3 installs?

Power? Ah well, I expected as much.
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Re: Spore
« Reply #69 on: August 29, 2008, 01:31:56 pm »
Can we focus on the game instead of Securom?
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Re: Spore
« Reply #70 on: August 29, 2008, 02:01:38 pm »
I had to buy the EU version (damn US store) but on the other hand I get to play it two days earlier.  :D
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Re: Spore
« Reply #71 on: August 29, 2008, 04:28:21 pm »
I wonder how many times they'll get away with making DRM worse before people stop saying it isn't a problem.
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Re: Spore
« Reply #72 on: August 29, 2008, 04:33:31 pm »
I'm against DRM as a whole. Up to the point that I strongly believe that if I were to make a kickass game, one of the major conditions for me accepting a deal with a publisher would be the lack of any protection on it save a serial for online play.
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Re: Spore
« Reply #73 on: August 29, 2008, 05:02:50 pm »
I may be beating a dead horse here, but how long before enough people realise that threr will never be a pirate-proof piece of software and that the publishers are spending millions on trying anyway, and passing the costs on to us?  We're *paying* them to make our lives inconvenient and take away our privacy.  And once someone finds a way to circumvent a measure, it's only a problem if you obey the law.

In what universe does making only the law-abiding pay for the actions of the transgressors make sense?
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Re: Spore
« Reply #74 on: August 29, 2008, 05:17:23 pm »
Thank you for saying what I said but better than I did McDoomhammer. :P :)
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