Over 3000 negative posts about Spore on Amazon
Alex:
It's quite an incredible backlash. EA deserve hell for this one. 3 installs? The nerve of them! But EA have had their head up their own ass, with their fingers in their ears going "lalalala" for long enough now. The word is spreading, the pirate numbers are growing. At this rate, EA will have to change if they don't want to lose their precious sales. They've been treating their paying customers like utter crap, and finally the sheeple have had enough. This may just be the revolution we've been waiting for.
But yeah, SecuROM is part of the package. People don't want it and it ruins the game experience, therefore the 1 star reviews are justified. The game as a whole is that bad for consumers purely because of the DRM, in the same way atrocious graphics that make the game impossible to see will ruin an otherwise excellent game with fantastic gameplay (example).
jsalemi:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2008 September 09, 19:00:12
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? ???
1) Yup, that's what it means. ANY re-install counts as one of the 3.
2) Unless you're ONLY trying to avoid SecuROM, you generally wouldn't register or play online with the cracked .exe. If you want to add other folks creations to your game, you'd do it manually by downloading them from the spore site, or pretty much any fan site that has shared creatures and content. And thus you can install as often as you like.
@jesslla: right -- see #2 above.
(latest Amazon stats - 1,657/1,792 1-star reviews)
BrokenRobot:
My faith in humanity just jumped up a notch. Maybe the masses really aren't going to let entertainment companies stomp all over them like I thought they would.
Gus Smedstad:
My problem with all the SecuRom Hate on Amazon is that it doesn't look credible to a casual observer, since it's all by people who haven't actually played the game.
I'm thinking about putting up a review myself, sharing the fact that I couldn't play at all due to the copy protection until I got a crack. Except that with all the similar comments from people who haven't played, it'll probably get completely lost in the noise.
- Gus
asthehind:
The .co.uk reviews have increased to 15, and the rating is down to 2.5 stars. There are a fair few hacked off people on the messageboards too.
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