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Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

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Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby ctrl_alt_defeat on Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:12 pm

Spore is getting killed on Amazon. Thousands of one-star reviews, and most of them are about SecuROM and the three-install limit, not the game. Did anyone here actually buy it?
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby Vectrex_Kid on Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:50 pm

Bought it, installed it, played it for a weekend. The creature editor is amazing, the rest is a collection of very simple minigames. And now I have two installs left, apparently.
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby LANwolf on Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:17 am

Three installs is a joke for anyone who rebuilds their PC more than once a year. Which is half of this forum.
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby PolygonPete on Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:05 pm

The funny part is that the cracked version was out before the official release. The DRM only bothers people who paid.
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby Trip_Wire on Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:40 pm

I'm skipping it. Not because I'm boycotting, I just reformat too often to deal with call-EA-and-beg.
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby rocketjump on Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:25 pm

EA has raised the limit to five installs and say they'll release a de-authorization tool. Still not buying it, but it's something.
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby ctrl_alt_defeat on Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:02 pm

Far Cry 2 has the same SecuROM activation limit, by the way. Five, I think.
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Re: Spore DRM -- three installs, SecuROM, and 2,000 one-star reviews

Postby BrassMonkey on Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:37 pm

Picked it up on sale and the creature creator alone is worth twenty bucks. My nephew has made about 300 creatures with two legs and too many eyes.
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