Over 3000 negative posts about Spore on Amazon
MrMugg:
In just one day, there are over 900 one star posts on Amazon.com about Spore. I'm sure some of those are double/triple posts, but my goodness people are pissed off. Did anyone manage to buy or get an "arrr" version of Spore? Is it "all that and a bag of chips", or was it over-hyped goo? The reviews that I did read explained that the game was too easy, boring, and character creation had no impact on the game.
Question:
I know that the "arrr" version specifies not to connect online. To avoid SecuRom, could you buy the game and use the "arrr" version to register your code and account? If the game is good, I wouldn't mind owning it and going online to see other creations, but I don't want to deal with activation limits and crapware installed on my computer.
Zazazu:
See thread in RetardoLand for impressions.
I've heard that the answer to your question is yes, and I see no reason it shouldn't be. As I have no valid registration code I can't test it. Honestly, I don't want people's crap in my game. You can still get creations from other players on your game by going to the site, clicking on the featured creations, and browsing from there. Just save the .png files in the corresponding folders in your My Spore Creations folder.
vecki:
Check out the Reviews on Amazon.com A 1 star rating, all courtesy of SuckuROM! Just goes to show, it really does fuck up your game, EA.
Check out a google search of the publicity the review-bomb is getting
I lurrve it.
kaitco:
I was reading through some of those this evening and was actually a little disappointed that very few people actually talked about the game itself. To say that the DRM on the game is an understatement, but I think (and I could be very wrong about this as a laymen in gaming) most people who know enough about the DRM to fully understand its impact, know the ways to A) remove SecuRom from his or her system and B) know how to acquire a crack without it. What would probably make this attack of low reviews have the greatest impact is if the reviewers discussed how "great" the game is, but that people should stay away from it specifically because of the DRM.I also read that the series of negative comments was part of a coalition, of sorts, to have people speak out en masse about DRM, but what is still discouraging is that even with all the negativity, the game is still Number One on Amazon.
lemmiwinks:
Who is this kaitco person? If DRM/SuckuRom comes with the game, it is part of the game. Therefore the game sucks. Get rid of the crap and then you can honestly review it on its own merits.
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