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- bwdd, on 09/17/2008, -10/+152It's down, but I'm a genius.
Mirror:
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54749 - shyampoo, on 09/16/2008, -2/+104Don't mess with the power of the internets
- ScrewedThePooch, on 09/16/2008, -2/+69Maxis need to un-merge with EA. EA is a raper of good video game companies. Soon they'll try to buy Blizzard (as if Vivendi wasn't equally as *****).
- inactive, on 09/17/2008, -6/+63DRM is like taking two ***** in the ass at the same time, and not regular *****, the big ass porno *****.
- JasonCox, on 09/17/2008, -3/+55Whatever happened to Dugg Mirror?
- benman587, on 09/16/2008, -1/+45Activision-Blizzard owns Blizzard. There's is no way EA is going to touch Blizzard.
- hauntedchippy, on 09/17/2008, -3/+47***** EA
- M4tchstickM4n, on 09/17/2008, -0/+43Having never experienced this... I will have to take your word for it.
- Murdats, on 09/17/2008, -0/+37the point is you shouldn't need internet to play a single player game you bought.
- espoandy, on 09/17/2008, -5/+39Why not just make penis creatures like everyone else?
- Ugoff, on 09/17/2008, -0/+34***** Spore's DRM. My friend got a computer from his friend, and he also picked up Spore since now he has the hardware to play it, but the computer has a bad driver for the ethernet card (we're in the dorms so no wireless which is pretty pathetic) so he hasn't even had the chance to play it since he's gotten it, just because he can't go online and the DRM won't let him play his own ***** game, and it's a pain in the ass to fix this problem.
- ObiWanCalobi, on 09/17/2008, -3/+36"The Donald Ronald Sop, or DRM for short, is a incredibly stupid creature that should be wiped from the face of the earth."
DRS != DRM. Nice try though. Too bad there's not a single "M" in the name. - SuicideMouse, on 09/17/2008, -0/+28No, it isn't... and I don't want to talk about it...
- ControlcChris, on 09/17/2008, -5/+31im SOO glad a downloaded this game instead of buying it. But what a waste of bandwidth.
- ScrewedThePooch, on 09/16/2008, -7/+32The game is really good, actually. I got the non-DRM version a few days ago, and it's been really fun. Props to Will Wright. FAIL to EA.
- bwdd, on 09/17/2008, -4/+28is it just me or is the server ALREADY down?
- spoonchucks, on 09/17/2008, -0/+24Last night, I was finally about to bone my girlfriend... But then there was this DRM and she said there was no way...
- mlssls, on 09/17/2008, -2/+23makes you wonder what real creatures are actually just subtle statements of protest from god.
- qbthemc, on 09/17/2008, -3/+23umm Pokemon.
- Falldog, on 09/16/2008, -2/+22Shame EA owns the rights to those creatures by default, they'll probably disappear as soon as they get wind.
- aznpwnzor, on 09/17/2008, -1/+18***** THE RIAA
- Ugoff, on 09/17/2008, -0/+17Well it is an easy fix, but what took forever was diagnosing the problem. It's also a desktop computer so it's not too portable.
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -0/+16***** EA
- inactive, on 09/17/2008, -1/+17I grabbed the torrent and found out it was not worth buying.
- richlw, on 09/17/2008, -3/+19V For Vendetta
- hauntedchippy, on 09/17/2008, -1/+16Bambi 2: Oh yes there will be blood
- Ismith988, on 09/17/2008, -0/+15they are games?
learn to spell, you douchebag :P - ferinex, on 09/17/2008, -0/+14I'm pretty positive James Madison actually said something along those lines, long before V was ever even thought of.
*checks*
Yup, "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Not exact, but definitely close. - Nerys, on 09/17/2008, -0/+14Thats right RIAA Is the criminal do not forget it.
- GetItBuilt, on 09/16/2008, -15/+28I had high hopes for this game, but have yet to read one good review. Glad I didn't buy it.
These pic are hilarious. :)
Nuff Said. - 1longtime, on 09/17/2008, -0/+12I buy my games, and I still think EA's head is up their collective asses.
- Murdats, on 09/17/2008, -0/+12ok I have seen you posting retarded comments all through here, it is obvious you are lacking some mental facaulties.
but these are on the sporepedia, which only legit users can contribute to, so yes, they did buy it, and they are still pissed off.
also why are people only allowed to be pissed off if they bought it, many people are pissed because they would have bought it but the DRM is to prohibitive thus forcing them to reconsider. I would be annoyed if a game I highly anticipated was crippled to a point where it was not worth buying any more. - SuicideMouse, on 09/17/2008, -0/+11You think?
IT IS ***** OUT OF HAND!
Do not buy Spore, or anything else with DRM, simple as that. Just stop buying it.
I don't mean for a week or a month, I mean STOP BUYING IT!
It will leave when we do... - lougoose, on 09/17/2008, -0/+10At first I thought Digg bought em (cause it was forwarding to Digg for a while).
Now I feel like it vanished into thin air. - SuicideMouse, on 09/17/2008, -0/+9A) I actually have never downloaded or purchased Spore... so ***** off.
B) I have broken laws I don't agree with. Call me a criminal if you want, I don't give a *****.
C) I am pretty much 100% sure you have broken some law at some point in your life, you a criminal?
D) I'm usually not one for discrimination but you obviously stumbled onto the wrong website, if you were backing up your statements with valid points, cool, but you're not. You're just bitching, reposting the same lame-ass things, and insulting and labeling people.
So ***** OFF or start acting like an intellectual. - bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -0/+9Give it a few days, you'll be bored to tears.
- SuicideMouse, on 09/17/2008, -0/+9rogerse has been calling people criminals and has been an overall idiot in this article's comments alone.
I can't decide whether he's paid to make comments like that or if he's just hands down retarded. - Disease, on 09/17/2008, -0/+9Digg Effect.
- inactive, on 09/17/2008, -1/+9Governments should be afraid of their people.
/name that movie - vstro24, on 09/17/2008, -1/+9Why were you dugg down? anyway, Tip o' the hat to you...
- M4tchstickM4n, on 09/17/2008, -2/+10Probably because he said he was a genius. I do appreciate someone finding a mirror for me (I dugg this up) but the ability to use a search engine does not make you a genius.
- stretch611, on 09/17/2008, -0/+8But DRM does not work.
DRM is meant to stop pirates, yet the availability of a cracked version prior to release day proves it does not stop pirates. It only affects the honest people that buy legitimate copies of the game.
So DRM only annoys the people that were honest in the first place and turns them into pirates when they get fed up. - KloroFormd, on 09/17/2008, -0/+7EA needs to be bombarded with anonymous emails from people claiming to have played Spore, but without the annoyance that their paying customers put up with. Maybe they'll get the hint.
- filemeaway, on 09/17/2008, -0/+7I'd go with the latter.
- stretch611, on 09/17/2008, -0/+7***** DRM!!!
We might as well point the finger properly in this case. - Nerys, on 09/17/2008, -0/+7I only call people criminals who commit REAL crimes not crimes INVENTED out of thin air in order to protect profits and greed.
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -4/+11Because many people don't have penises on their mind all the time.
- Zarokima, on 09/17/2008, -0/+7Pirate and upload through the Creature Creator.
- houndeyex, on 09/17/2008, -1/+8Is that a joke? Spore is repetitive as hell. The elements of game play that it combines it does so mediocre that the game was hardly worth one run through.
Over hyped, under delivered. Better luck next time. - pigfister, on 09/17/2008, -0/+6Here is more anti consumer EA tactics, this would suggest that Spore is dialing out on startup of every game, i thought EA said a 1 time activation or is this Sony phone home pc scanning just as their RootKit did?
Sorry long post but ppl need to read this bull ***** from EA.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169899
FTA: Even on the same PC, extra copies needed for each family member who wants a new profile.
As if there was any need to further incite angry gamers with Spore's DRM issues, The Consumerist yesterday ran a story on how -- in addition to the many other restrictions the game's DRM presents gamers with -- a copy of Spore provides you with only a single game account. In other words, if you've got multiple people in the same house who want to play Spore and have their own individual online personas, you'll have to buy an additional copy of Spore for each person.
Forget what you may have read on the manual -- particularly that part on page 53 which reads, "You may have multiple Spore accounts for each installation of the game." An EA spokesperson going by the name "EA_Violet" has clarified questions regarding the matter on the official Spore forums, providing us this disappointing revelation:
"That section in the manual was a misprint and will be corrected in future printings of the manual. There is one Spore registration/account per game/serial code so you are correct in that you cannot make multiple accounts at this time. I have sent your guys' feedback to the game team though since I can understand the desire to share a game on a system that you entire family uses."
For a "misprint" the language seems pretty clear, and it is common practice for games to allow different user profiles so you can login and play with your own data/saves(naturally, with only one instance of the game running at any given time). One can't help but wonder whether this feature was removed so late in the process that the manual had already gone to print. Regardless, if this policy sticks after the game team reviews the feedback noted in the post it will only fan the fires of gamers frustrated with EA's handling of Spore. While we stand staunchly against piracy, requiring each member of a household to buy their own individual copy of the game seems like one of those policies that could backfire, driving people who otherwise wouldn't dream of it to potentially consider it as an alternative. But maybe this is simply an example of not having thought things through.
Should it hold true, this revelation also calls the game's strict installation restrictions into question. If each game serial code only authorizes a single account registration that should render how many times you install the game fairly moot.
We've contacted EA for a comment on the story but have yet to receive a response. -
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