Over 3000 negative posts about Spore on Amazon
jsalemi:
As of right now, 1393 out of 1490 reviews are 1-star on the US Amazon site. Only 34 5-star reviews.
Quote from: Pythia on 2008 September 09, 14:50:35
There are no reviews at all for Spore now on Amazon.co.uk. However the tags for the game are quite interesting.
They're back up to 9 reviews right now, with 3 1-star and 2 2-star. :)
HomeschooledByTards:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 09, 15:28:26
You make it so obvious they can't help to see that their use of the DRM is affecting not only long-time fans who would normally buy the product, but also prospectives who see this information freely shared at the point where they would be making their purchase. And you do it somewhere very, very public.
This campaign is extremely obvious. It's also extremely effective. Who doesn't glance at the rating for something before purchasing? When seeing a low rating, who doesn't glance at the comments?
This is shades of Microsoft's XP activation scheme from a few years back, when it was said that you could only fiddle with your hardware five times before being forced to beg for another try from Microsoft. The average user buys a prebuilt computer and never adds an extra hard drive, upgrades their video card, or add more ram. As such, the average user wasn't really going to be affected by this activation scheme. Microsoft still received numerous bad reviews and had quite the media blitz about it (in the tech media anyway). I believe they eventually scrapped the activation scheme due to public outcry.
More people will be affected by Spore's activation scheme than they would have been by XP's simply because people reinstall non-OS software much more often than they make hardware changes. Run out of diskspace? Get tired of the game for now? Get a new computer? Uninstall and reinstall later.
I'm going to be getting a new computer in the next few months, and I'm not thrilled that I'll have to reactivate my game and only have one more activation available. I miss the "good old days" when copy protection was "type the fourth letter of the fifth page of this manual". It was a lot less invasive than SecuROM.
jsalemi:
Quote from: jesslla on 2008 September 09, 16:14:18
I believe they eventually scrapped the activation scheme due to public outcry.
Actually, no -- MS still uses that activation scheme. I ran into a problem with it when I built my new computer earlier this year and had to do multiple XP installs due to various hardware issues. They made it easier to solve, though -- just a phone call and an automated response system that reactivated your installs.
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I'm going to be getting a new computer in the next few months, and I'm not thrilled that I'll have to reactivate my game and only have one more activation available. I miss the "good old days" when copy protection was "type the fourth letter of the fifth page of this manual". It was a lot less invasive than SecuROM.
Not really -- go to gamecopyworld and get the no-cd.exe. Problem solved -- you can still connect online to get new stuff from the user community if you like, but won't have the SecuROM issues or limited count.
(latest Amazon stats - 1,487/1,596 1-star reviews)
syberspunk:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 September 09, 18:26:02
Quote from: jesslla on 2008 September 09, 16:14:18
I'm going to be getting a new computer in the next few months, and I'm not thrilled that I'll have to reactivate my game and only have one more activation available. I miss the "good old days" when copy protection was "type the fourth letter of the fifth page of this manual". It was a lot less invasive than SecuROM.
Not really -- go to gamecopyworld and get the no-cd.exe. Problem solved -- you can still connect online to get new stuff from the user community if you like, but won't have the SecuROM issues or limited count.
(latest Amazon stats - 1,487/1,596 1-star reviews)
Wait... just to clarify:
1) So... limited activations include... if you ever have to re-install? i.e. if I ever have to reformat, it will count as one of the 3 time only activations?
2) I can understand how the cracked version would allow you to circumvent SecuROM... but does it actually let you re-install multiple times? I mean... wouldn't you still need a serial/activation #? I would imagine that each serial/activation # still only has 3 time only activations. Unless the cracked .exe actually does something to prevent the activation from counting?
OR... does it only NOT count if you DON'T play online. in other words... you can activate and re-activate, whether you use your valid paid for serial/activation # or whether you use a cracked/key-gen'd one, so long as you NEVER go online? ???
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HomeschooledByTards:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 September 09, 18:26:02
Actually, no -- MS still uses that activation scheme. I ran into a problem with it when I built my new computer earlier this year and had to do multiple XP installs due to various hardware issues. They made it easier to solve, though -- just a phone call and an automated response system that reactivated your installs.
Ah. I haven't kept up with what's going on in the computer world since I left my network admin job back in 2000. I'm not really surprised (we are talking about Microsoft after all) that they haven't gotten rid of it. I have an ARR'd version of XP installed on my computer, which is probably why I never ran into problems. :)
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Not really -- go to gamecopyworld and get the no-cd.exe. Problem solved -- you can still connect online to get new stuff from the user community if you like, but won't have the SecuROM issues or limited count.
Getting the no-cd is on my list of things to do tonight (1. Get no-cd. 2. Remove SecuROM 3. Play Spore. As you can see I have a long list for tonight). Is it verified to work with the EA Store direct download version?
I already activated it once, but if I install it on my next computer and use the no-cd before I run it for the first time that will keep it from activating the second time right?
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