arstechnica.com — The story of Spore has become the story of EA and DRM: the company is now loosening the install limit and working on ways to get your installs back after use them up. For many gamers, however, any limit remains intolerable.
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sdsniper2Sep 19, 2008
Maybe they should just remove DRM from the games and make them free. They could make their money with in-game advertising instead, similar to the way TV & radio make money. That way they would not have to worry about piracy, who would pirate a free game.
sampson123Sep 20, 2008
I would like to thank everyone who pirated the game. The Spore team was the last major non MMO PC exclusive developer. Now I can look forward to Will Wright's next game on my console.
zandogSep 21, 2008
EA has made these kind of poor PR decisions for along time now. I wonder when developers are going to start backing away from their publishing offers.
swordphishSep 22, 2008
Me too. I think I've owned and played every Maxis game ever made (SimFarm, SimAnt anyone?). I've probably installed and uninstalled every game at least a dozen times on every machine I've ever owned. That's sort of the beauty of their games, even though I get bored, they still manage to bring me back somehow...there's something deep down inside that I find appealing.
tendonutSep 22, 2008
@buckrogers1965Emulator?<a class="user" href="http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/tendonut1337/comptv2.jpg">http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/tendonut13 ...</a>What's that behind my chair? No, not Spore Collectors Edition *hangs head*, but to the left of it.