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Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« on: September 08, 2008, 09:33:52 PM »
Spore, after more than 10 years of development time, is finally available for the PC and Mac. The game comes from the mind of the talented Will Wright, the man who gave us The Sims and the original SimCity titles. No matter what people think about the actual game play, the story now centers around the DRM scheme EA built into the title, and a grassroots movement has begun to tell gamers just how bad the DRM sucks. The method? Bombing the comments on Amazon.com.

Right now the game has 222 customer reviews, with 194 of them giving the game one star. The game also has nine five-star reviews, two of which were written in 2006, while the other reviews spend significant amounts of time complaining about the one-star reviews. The game's rating sits at 1.5 stars as of this writing.

So what are the people complaining about?
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2008, 09:57:55 PM »
Aw Crap and I bought the damn thing. Going to be Bioshock all over again.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2008, 10:13:34 PM »
I am at a cross-roads right now. Should I take it back to Best Buy and get my money back? Or wait for EA to fix this mess? I should probably take it back. I tried to support it the good way, but if it is going to be like this. Then hello piracy; coincidentality I did use a little something, something to get it. The not so ethical way. Ten years of wasted work, so can anyone tell me why the hell didn't they do this for any of the previous titles like C&C3? Then again I already know the answer to that. I will probably return it tomorrow. Unless if there is a glimmer of hope; I spent the extra to get damn everything you could get; sad I never got to play it. Yet.......
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2008, 11:29:27 PM »
Quote from: Mr.Tibs on September 08, 2008, 10:13:34 PM
I am at a cross-roads right now. Should I take it back to Best Buy and get my money back? Or wait for EA to fix this mess? I should probably take it back. I tried to support it the good way, but if it is going to be like this. Then hello piracy; coincidentality I did use a little something, something to get it. The not so ethical way. Ten years of wasted work, so can anyone tell me why the hell didn't they do this for any of the previous titles like C&C3? Then again I already know the answer to that. I will probably return it tomorrow. Unless if there is a glimmer of hope; I spent the extra to get damn everything you could get; sad I never got to play it. Yet.......

Good luck on getting a retail store to take back a game.  Opened or unopened, the best you'll get is store credit.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2008, 11:30:06 PM »
I really am surprised that EA restricted the installs to three. Basically, this DRM move is making Spore's torrent numbers skyrocket:

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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2008, 12:15:55 AM »
Quote from: Mr.Tibs on September 08, 2008, 09:57:55 PM
Going to be Bioshock all over again.

Yeah but at least they removed that crap off of BioShock later on. Who knows, maybe they'll do the same for Spore.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2008, 05:15:04 AM »
Like I said I bought it at Best Buy. So they might uphold this. But it is EA after all; my guess is they won't do a damn thing. When will they learn, this sort of thing happened with Assassins Creed. Some employee of the publisher took the game home and put it out on the internet. So it happens no matter what.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2008, 07:30:26 AM »
Did you open the box?
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2008, 03:34:13 PM »
This is why I am a pirate and DAMN PROUD!  If I acquire it and like it THAT much, I will buy it, otherwise.....the man can SUCK IT


edit: It now has 1698 reviews and 93% of them is one star....amazing, maybe that will get some attention
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2008, 03:38:43 PM »
Quote from: Czar on September 09, 2008, 07:30:26 AM
Did you open the box?

The plastic is off.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2008, 03:40:15 PM »
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2008, 04:17:03 PM »
I have a copy just for this moment.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2008, 04:27:28 PM »
So I shouldn't even think about it. Got it.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2008, 06:07:34 PM »
Quote from: DoubleG on September 09, 2008, 04:27:28 PM
So I shouldn't even think about it. Got it.

Not at this time no.
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Re: Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2008, 02:35:46 AM »
You know you need to work harder to find a better solution when you alienate the people who are willing to pay for a product, but don't because of DRM bullCrap.  Consequently, I wonder how many sales are lost because of this and whether or not it actually reduces pirating by any significant degree.
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