Poll: Your Spore stance

[Hey Joe]

I'm not particularly angry at the DRM piracy measures, I just think the industry is trying new ways to stop piracy. I can't rage at them for that, but the implementation of it will definitely force devs and publishers to go back to the drawing board after this fiasco and the somewhat mainstream coverage this brew-har-har has gotten.

In a way, it'll be the benchmark for what not to do in the future.

 

[Flour]

What DRM?

I saw it required an account to download the millions of penis creatures so I just played offline
4 hours later I was so bored of it I uninstalled and was happy I didn't buy or download the game(my brother downloads everything, the last time I downloaded anything was the Orange Box, 2 months after release because I don't have a DVD drive/player)

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Alone in the Dark had interesting secuROM - it was "good in theory" - when you uninstalled the game you had to go online and "unregister" it or something, and then you could install it on another computer.

Clearly for those who know enough about DRM, you know why this fails. Still at least they tried to combine "help out the customer but try not to make it invasive and intrusive".

Still, what maniac wouldn't just crack it? A Masochist? Someone who doesn't know about BitTorrent?

I'd hate to have to log on and enter codes and talk to people on the phone just to reinstall a game.

 

[Tahmoh]

im not happy bout the three install limit but other than that im not all that fussed about the d.r.m coz its ea's cash there wasting by messing up there sales not mine.
the game is alot of fun btw

 

[Ralackk]

You missed bought and pirated the game poll option.

I don't tend to support DRM schemes either but I ended up buying and pirating the game. It's sitting on my self unopened and I'm running a pirated version to avoid all the DRM crap. This is the fairest way in my mind for me to play the game without the DRM. Is it legal?, probably not but it's how I chose to handle it.

I still haven't bought mass effect yet because of the DRM in that, another game I want to play just not as badly as I wanted spore.

Bioshock has the same online activation system, only few installs before you would have to buy the game again. Left Bioshock in the game store and I will do the same to every game that uses that kind of system.

The install limit for Bioshock was actually removed.

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=4321324e6606b673b72bd5ff4e24e596&t=18452

I don't think most people realise that because I have posted a link to that forum a couple times now. They kind of shot themselves in the foot with that DRM stunt. Feel free to buy it now if you are still interested.

 

[Dommyboy]

DRM didn't do anything to pirates anyway, they cracked it in about a hour or less. As soon as the game was released there were hundreds of torrents up of Spore. Now S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, there's a pirates nightmare.

DRM never screws over pirates, just screws over customers. Like Bioshock, the 2k forums were filled with people asking for cracks to get rid of the setting that stops you installing the game over 3 times or something. Whats ironic is that the customers were asking this and the pirates found a solution to it first off.

Spore actually isn't a bad game because of DRM. Its a bad game because it turns into a grind fest.
Valve DRM works because people actually want to buy the games for a few reasons like one for example; if you get caught for pirating you can lose your online privileges with all steam games.