Over 3000 negative posts about Spore on Amazon
Inge:
Anyway, ignorance of how to get round Securom doesn't mean you won't have problems *with the game itself*. For instance, I would not have been able to play Freetime at all once it finally started refusing to load, and once just having the disk in my drive stopped all use of both CD and DVD drive for anything at all. I would have still given the game a bad review because as far as I was concerned it would have been unplayable due to refusing to let me read its CD. And that would be all be without ever having heard of Securom.
Hellyes:
Hellno, SucuROM doesn't stop Hellyes! I can haz none of that SucuROM!
I have a feeling that's the anti-SucuROM brigade. ;)
SucuROM aside, I've been playing Spore for about five days, and I would have to say that it's rather repetitive. I thinkz I will get bored of it before too long.
MaryH:
I've been reading about this mess..and I read some of the comments on Digg-one of which was a full review of it. Scathing, and extremely negative about the game and gameplay.
I even went to the trouble of posting it on Reclaim Your Game (I'm a mod there)-and it doesn't sound very fun.
The Anti-DRM crowd did us all a favor by doing this. I'm not going to naysay them at all. Perhaps EAxis will finally listen to us, because now it's hitting the mainstream press, and they cannot afford to piss off investors. An article ran today in the Financial Times about the debacle, and I'm pretty sure that EA investors read that.
Just because we can crack the damned thing does not make it right that EA is doing this deliberately to their customers. They are the leading DRM propagators, and they have to be called to account for their stupidity.
Tigerlilley:
This is awesome. They've been ignoring the Sims community for long enough, they can't ignore everyone now!
Zilla:
Quote from: MaryH on 2008 September 09, 11:46:53
I've been reading about this mess..and I read some of the comments on Digg-one of which was a full review of it. Scathing, and extremely negative about the game and gameplay.
I even went to the trouble of posting it on Reclaim Your Game (I'm a mod there)-and it doesn't sound very fun.
The Anti-DRM crowd did us all a favor by doing this. I'm not going to naysay them at all. Perhaps EAxis will finally listen to us, because now it's hitting the mainstream press, and they cannot afford to piss off investors. An article ran today in the Financial Times about the debacle, and I'm pretty sure that EA investors read that.
Just because we can crack the damned thing does not make it right that EA is doing this deliberately to their customers. They are the leading DRM propagators, and they have to be called to account for their stupidity.
When the Securom crap started heading downstream with BV, somebody said that it was the stock holders that "made" EA use a different type of anti-piracy software. I've never been able to confirm whether that was fact or fiction and I'm certainly not going to buy EA stock just to find out. If it was the stockholders, I hope all of them are walking around with massive bruises on their foreheads due to repeatedly smacking their hollow heads off of a wall.
As far as EA listening, I doubt it. They made billions of dollars in profits last year, screaming about Spore certainly isn't going to break the bank. It may make a few EAxis employees twitch in their seats, but EA change for the benefit of peace between them and customers? Not likely. Then of course there is the issue of them putting out bug infested games that all of us are all to familiar with. I'm not sure how buggy Spore is, but it's almost guaranteed that patches will muck something up. It's just EA's way of saying " Ha-Ha! You bought our crap and now we're going to fuck it up!"
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