Over 3000 negative posts about Spore on Amazon
EntropyGuardian:
Spore is great and nerds need something better to complain about especially things that don't really affect them at all.
*says he will never buy the game because of DRM*
*pirates the game because he wants to play it anyway*
Keep sticking it to the man. Its sort of like the Bus boycott only you're riding the bus without paying for a ticket in protest.
Chain_Reaction:
Quote from: EntropyGuardian on 2008 September 10, 04:33:56
Spore is great and nerds need something better to complain about especially things that don't really affect them at all.
*says he will never buy the game because of DRM*
*pirates the game because he wants to play it anyway*
Keep sticking it to the man. Its sort of like the Bus boycott only you're riding the bus without paying for a ticket in protest.
Are you serious? There's something wrong with wanting to play a game that you would normally buy to support the creators but don't because it'll FUBAR your computer if you try to do things legally? It's not just "nerds" complaining. Have you had this DRM cause issues with your PC? My CD drive doesn't work anymore because of it. Should I be deprived of completing my sims game collection, a game I enjoy, because of SecuRom when I bought all the ones before EA made such an airhead decision? I don't think anyone should be deprived of a game just because the suits are retarded.
Anyway I think its a real shame that Will Wright spent all this time on this game and his work is going unnoticed because of EA. If he was smart, which he obviously is, he should kill all ties to EA and find a publisher with some common sense. I think he's already proven his worth and shouldn't have issues publishing his games somewhere else. I wish he'd get the sims away from EA but thats not possible now.
Also I'm shocked that Amazon caved with contact from EA. Amazon sales their products, they should be offended that a company sent them a, *probably* intimidating, email asking them to remove the reviews. I was entirely ecstatic when Drea got no cheese with her whine when she came here!
lowbart:
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Also I'm shocked that Amazon caved with contact from EA. Amazon sales their products, they should be offended that a company sent them a, *probably* intimidating, email asking them to remove the reviews.
Amazon wants more sales to go through their site. If EA goes to them saying "OMG, lots of criminals are fradulently giving our game a bad review to screw with us", it's in Amazon's interest to believe them.
vecki:
Amazon.com still has almost 2000 reviews, most 1 star.
If it were EA breathing down Amazon's neck, I would have put my money on them going after the Amazon that's in their home country.
That said, the reviews that are getting through on Amazon.co.uk seem to be more about the gameplay, and the average is still only 2.5 stars.
maxon:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 09, 15:28:26
But then you have the problem: How does EA know why they are getting less money? So what if a few people have written them letters or emailed them. Everyone knows that pissed off people are more vocal, so it's quite possible that they only lost a few hundred/thousand sales to continued use of SecuROM. So what if they see posts around forums from fans saying they are pirating the game due to the DRM? Everyone knows they are just thieves anyways, looking for any excuse.
I suppose the thing for them is going to be a comparison of how many sales are lost through the Securom fiasco against how many sales they think they are losing through piracy - or perhaps more pertinently through second hand resale of the game. Personally, I find this a far more convincing reason for why EAxis uses Securom. What they don't seem to have quite twigged is that they are still losing the piracy sales and are also now losing otherwise legitimate customers which in a roundabout way (sort of) supports the notion that Securom is as much about resale as about piracy.
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?
I am enjoying the campaign, I admit it freely, but the thing that is actually going to stop all the stupidity properly is if we find a game we like as much made by some other company which doesn't use a DRM and piss off and play that instead. Something like Second Life kind of got close to making inroads into EA's captive audience though a) that isn't a game and b) some of the people on there make my flesh creep big time. Mind you, I have room to talk, I spend a large part of each day posting on sims boards.
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