arstechnica.com— Following a wave of negative reviews and DRM-focused protests on the official Amazon.com Spore product page, Amazon has deleted all customer reviews for the game.
Sep 12, 2008View in Crawl 4
Update:An Amazon spokesperson says that the reviews disappeared due to a "glitch" in the system. "The team is working to resolve this issue now and have all the reviews back up on the site," the spokesperson told Ars. "Amazon doesn't censor or edit customer reviews based [on their content] and we'd only remove a review if it fell outside our guidelines." The thousands of negative reviews are slowly coming back online.As of 4:25pm CDT, all 2,216 reviews were back online, and the average rating is one star.
"Most of the "this game sucks balls" reviews is prefaced by a complaint about the DRM..."And every complaint is a valid one. I don't care how good a game is if I have to let you f**k me in the ass before I can play it. EA can go to hell.
Reason CD keys are starting to go out, is once you have a keygen, everything goes to s**ts.People just use the keygen to make theure keys, and the paying customers that bought the game can intsall it because the key has already been used. Its still nowhere near as much as a pain in the ass as DRM though.
I hope to see more games getting bombarded with negative reviews if they include DRM period. That is one of the few ways we could get the point across to executives.
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Update:An Amazon spokesperson says that the reviews disappeared due to a "glitch" in the system. "The team is working to resolve this issue now and have all the reviews back up on the site," the spokesperson told Ars. "Amazon doesn't censor or edit customer reviews based [on their content] and we'd only remove a review if it fell outside our guidelines." The thousands of negative reviews are slowly coming back online.As of 4:25pm CDT, all 2,216 reviews were back online, and the average rating is one star.
erickstevensonSep 13, 2008
Good luck, looks like they are screening the reviews this time.
bridgeburnerSep 13, 2008
All you whiners disgust me.
maynardjkSep 14, 2008
"Most of the "this game sucks balls" reviews is prefaced by a complaint about the DRM..."And every complaint is a valid one. I don't care how good a game is if I have to let you f**k me in the ass before I can play it. EA can go to hell.
buckrogers1965Sep 14, 2008
What did they think was going to happen when they deleted the reviews? I would like to know what passes for thinking for some people.
sillywombatSep 15, 2008
Reason CD keys are starting to go out, is once you have a keygen, everything goes to s**ts.People just use the keygen to make theure keys, and the paying customers that bought the game can intsall it because the key has already been used. Its still nowhere near as much as a pain in the ass as DRM though.
onlinegiftbOct 20, 2008
I hope to see more games getting bombarded with negative reviews if they include DRM period. That is one of the few ways we could get the point across to executives.
janwindglowstarJan 20, 2012
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