Spore: The Nightmare
I was stoked about Spore for years, I purchased the pre release and was excited because it released when I had taken 2 weeks off to move so I could play it till 3 am every day. I get done moving and unpacking and go to install but had some problems because the wires in our new place were ancient and Comcast neglected to test the data fidelity when they set me up. Next day the tech comes and lays new coaxe and I go to install again. Guess what? Even though the connection was too poor to finish the install it was perfectly fine as far as burning through my installs.
I had the game for 4 days and it was dead. I called the company and basically got the "tough shit" line (never mind the person could see that I burned my installs in less the 1 hour from the same PC at the same location.)
The worst part is since I had pre purchased I had no store that I could return it to and absolutely no recourse. Way to treat a guy who had bank rolled you by paying for a game months before I could even play it.
Gears of War which worked great until about a year later when I started getting nostalgic about it and tried to re install. Yeah, that didn't work to well. I was told that my game that I purchased for 59,99 was EXPIRED! Who the fuck does a game expire?!?? I read the case from top to bottom and then had my son look it over and there was no mention of a time limit.
What pisses me off the most is I played by the rules and got screwed hard.
RUSE: OMFG, who ever came up with the idea of "always on DRM" should (insert horrible fate here) I will never by another Ubiesoft game again. At least Target took the game back
My son had 2 games (can't remember what they were) that freaked out because I have 2 DVD drivers. Both went back to the store, There is simply no way Im going to dis connect a drive for a game.
So yes DRM DOES screw over good paying customers pretty hard.
On the plus side my family spends WAY more money on indie games, Natural Selection 2 and Minecraft both have 3 separate installs in my house. I willing to spend quite a bit of money supporting companies that don't treat their costumers like petty thiefs.
