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[Jreengus]

Yes just like people have been doing for years and for even longer with books and music and movies. Why should games be any different in that respect?

[Okenido]

I should probably get Galactic Adventures at some point.

And while it was The Most Pirated Game Ever it was also one of the most sold games ever.  Even with pirating it still stayed way up in the chart for months.  The DRM allows you to play without a disk as it means they know you aren't just gonna share it around.  If there's no DRM on a game which doesn't require a disk to play, you could just share it around with all your friends, hell, everyone in your whole neighborhood.

I still can do that even with SecuROM in the game.

Hell the whole copy protection thing is a piece of shit because there are numerous ways to get around it.

[Micro102]

Yes the DRM doesn't do anything but prevent resell....Hence the many copies sold.  Some people were even forced to buy spore again because EA wouldn't give them their extra activation.

[LegoLord]

Yes the DRM doesn't do anything but prevent resell....Hence the many copies sold.  Some people were even forced to buy spore again because EA wouldn't give them their extra activation.

That's over now, they fixed it, remember?  We were just talking about that a page or two ago?

[Leafsnail]

Yes the DRM doesn't do anything but prevent resell....Hence the many copies sold.  Some people were even forced to buy spore again because EA wouldn't give them their extra activation.

I suppose if you accidentally uninstalled them 5 times then yes, you would have to buy a new copy.  Then again, if I accidentally ripped my ticket for the cinema in half, I would have to buy another one.

[Micro102]

it was 3 times at first, and with millions of buyers something is bound to happen.

[LegoLord]

it was 3 times at first, and with millions of buyers something is bound to happen.

And they fixed it as well as it can be fixed already, ages ago.  Your argument looks weak when you bring up a point that went obsolete several months ago.

[Leafsnail]

it was 3 times at first, and with millions of buyers something is bound to happen.

Yes, and with millions of buyers some people are going to accidentally rip up their tickets to the cinema.  What's your point?

[cerapa]

it was 3 times at first, and with millions of buyers something is bound to happen.

Yes, and with millions of buyers some people are going to accidentally rip up their tickets to the cinema.  What's your point?

The install limit is bad. Lets say you buy a lifetime ticket to the cinema. Then you go there 5 times, and then they say "We mean a different thing by lifetime."

Its a freaking rental!

[Leafsnail]

Erm, you don't need to reinstall each time you play the game.

[cerapa]

Erm, you don't need to reinstall each time you play the game.

You brought up the metaphor.

[Sean Mirrsen]

On the subject of Spore and demos, does anyone still remember how even the meta-demo thing called Creature Creator was better than Spore? It was the core, the central part of the whole game, and they managed to make it worse! Being a design kinda person, I actually like it more when you can stick four weak spikes or claws onto something, and have its attack actually be equal to four instead of one. Makes sense, you know? Same goes for legs and speed, though whether or not a three-legged creature is faster than a two-legged one is debatable. Had they at least left that bit in, I might not have been so negative about it. I might have even kept playing the thing.

[Leafsnail]

I dunno, I guess they didn't want to drive you into putting five claws onto your creature to keep it competitive with others.  Might work if you had diminishing returns though (ie each new body part adding to the same statistic gives half of what the last one did).

You brought up the metaphor.

Well, no, the metaphor would run something more like "You rip up your ticket and tear up the receipt for it.  You can then no longer go to the cinema".

[Neonivek]

You rip up your ticket and tear up the receipt for it.  You can then no longer go to the cinema

Unless your already inside

[LegoLord]

Already inside?

Anyway, Cerapa, again, obsolete complaint.  De-authorization tool.  Let's you uninstall Spore while restoring your install capacity.  No, not perfect, but you at least have infinite installs.  Come up with a better solution, though.  I doubt you will, seeing as how (the way the disc works) the only way to get the perfect system would have a horrible solution; recalling all the old discs.  Costly and time consuming on both parties.

I do agree somewhat with Sean; it's not something that made me angry or terribly upset, it's just one of those things I would have suggested they try to patch in or something.