- people in masses give this game 1 point to protest over Spore DRM
(you have activate it first time after install and only 3 activations totaly allowed).
I do not kbnow about you but even with activation I like StarDoc's aproach more, this is really funny that the game was cracked even before release and now legal customers find themselves in much worse position than "pirates", most of them just simply use cracked version to avoid the trobbles ...
Anyway I am too gave it 1 star ...
Don't forget that replacing any piece of hardware requires reinstall.
For instance:
(dammit, "edit" seems to be broken)
I meant to say "requires re-activation" in my first sentence there.
Really? Changing the hardware and it counts against you?
This game only mildly interesting me in the first place, but that does it. If they're going to punish me for fiddling with my computer's insides, I ain't buying it. Ever.
Yes, the activation is tied to your hardware ID. You may be able to change video cards or other components without troubles. Problem is EA won't tell you how much hardware change is toerated by the DRM, so it's a complete crap shoot if you change/add hardware as to whether or not you'll burn an activation.
Red Alert will allow at least one. So I think Spore has either one or non.
I'm skeptical. The BioWare devs said they changed video cards when testing Mass Effect and didn't run into any activation problems. However, after it was released, I saw more than one report on their boards where poepl found that changing a video card burned an activation.
My own experience with BioShock was that adding a hard drive (not a new one for the OS, but just another internal HDD for more storage) triggered an activation (in fact it locked me out of the game).
So, while they say you'll be able to change one component, I wouldn't count on it. Quite frankly, I;m not confident anyone but SonyDADC realy know what will tirgger an activation - and I wouldn't be surprised if even they didn't know for sure.
Copy protection, the current big scam industry. That industry says they are needed, afterall, look at all the pirates! "Oh no, they are right! We need this!" And the industry laughs and laughs all the way to the bank.
I am having trouble thinking of any other product that punishes the customer while letting the criminal go free.
I promised myself never to buy another EA game until the changed big-time. Then they soemhow accquired BW. Now I often have a hard time sleeping at night... I want to reward BW but at the same time I dont want to support EA in anyway. Short of pirating DA:O and sending a donation to BW directly I'm at a loss of what to do.
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