*raises hand* ooh! ooh! I do! ...convince everyone that 'terrorists' hate freedom & then start taking them all away one by one in the name of security, making sure you do it just slow enough so that the citizens existing apathy will shove it down the memory hole long enough to allow the next generation absolutely no frame of reference as to how life used to be.
' Wrote:*raises hand* ooh! ooh! I do! ...convince everyone that 'terrorists' hate freedom & then start taking them all away one by one in the name of security, making sure you do it just slow enough so that the citizens existing apathy will shove it down the memory hole long enough to allow the next generation absolutely no frame of reference as to how life used to be.
More than a cookie. He gets the whole freaking packet!
Spacewolf Wrote:i havent had any problems with secuRom on this or DOW this version on SPORE is supposed to be bad but yet ive had no problems with it, and most people dont seem to be having problems with it either looking at the Gamespot forums its just people stirring it up to be some sort of doomsday weapon. The Games fun as well but its not really super ground breaking but it will keep me entertained for a while, some stages are also quite addictive
Do/have you:
Own your own computer?
Built it from scratch?
Purchased a computer then modified it?
Reinstall the OS regularly so that the computer stays in fast speed.
Install new hardware often? Maybe to test a friends CD/DVD rom to see if its working?
Like clear answers about what something is going to do to you computer?
Seriously. EA is telling me that if I do something physically to my computer, that the game that I purchased to play, is going to stop working.
And that I need to ask them to play it again.
I want to play Spore in 10 years time - and enjoy it all over again.
EA have no guarantee that I will be able to do that.
A company telling me that if I install a new graphics card, (after installing Spore) will possibly disable Spore....is utter bull****. It is not acceptable for a games company to tell me what I can physically do with my own computer.
Sovereign Wrote:Seek fun and you shall find it. Seek stuff to Q_Q about and you'll find that, too. I choose to have fun.
Mar Wrote:*raises hand* ooh! ooh! I do! ...convince everyone that 'terrorists' hate freedom & then start taking them all away one by one in the name of security, making sure you do it just slow enough so that the citizens existing apathy will shove it down the memory hole long enough to allow the next generation absolutely no frame of reference as to how life used to be.
A society that will give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both. -Benjamin Franklin.
Or something along those lines.
Templar Wrote:An as per that registartion thingie... Why do I HAVE to own an internet connection in order to play something I alreay paid for?
You don't need to log into the internet to play Spore. It's just that it logs you into the Sporepedia which will give you access to other player-made creatures, buildings, and vehicles which (I believe) you can choose from as templates. Or just look at their prettiness. Either way they will generate those player-made creations on new planets that you explore. Otherwise it'll just generate a creature randomly for you to annihilate.
So Billy makes Creature A.
Steve invades Planet X and finds Billy's Creature A.
It wont destroy your home planet or a planet that you own, its just like putting your hand in a bag of seeds without knowing which ones they are and throwing them about. It wont kill the Sunflowers or Oak trees that the seeds came from, but they'll still be there.
' Wrote:I'm interested in seeing that.
Can you point me to a link?
Because as far as I understand, and according to EA,
An OS install is counted as a "new computer install."
So is a 'significant hardware' change.
I'm guessing you didnt read my txt file?
As long as you're connected to the internet while uninstalling the game, your serial key is credited with an install. So if you go ahead and wipe your OS before uninstalling the game, then yes, you lose an install(I believe, anyways, I'm not wiping my OS 3 times to find out).
It may be a bit of a pain, but you can install it as many times as you want, as long as you're careful.
I tried finding a link to this, but there's so many idiots complaining about DRM that it's hard to find anything on it, so I went ahead and uninstalled the game, reinstalled it, uninstalled it, reinstalled it, uninstalled it, and on my fourth install, I had no problems.
Yes, it was a pretty big waste of time, but I honestly had nothing better to do.
EverBlue: Do you think I want to go through my computer and uninstall every program just to reinstall the OS? No. I want to format my computer and reinstall. Also you didnt add any hardware. I regularly do. Until it is confirmed exactly what Spore counts as a 'significant hardware change' spore is staying off my computer - as is other EA games by the sounds of it.)
You guys are completely missing the point.
Before you can play you need to register (authenticate) your copy.
After that it'll let you play. You can then choose to play online or offline.
It will authenticate your copy every time you download new stuff (other peoples creations).
One lifetime install taken.
If you insert a new graphics card (I think, they have not confirmed this - other than to say 'significant hardware change', and when asked they refused to answer,) It takes up another lifetime install.
If for some reason you have to reinstall or upgrade your OS, (and subsequently Spore) it takes up another lifetime install.
Bingo, you have just used up your three LIFETIME installs.
You must now ask EA to re-activate your LEGALLY PURCHASED game.
"Everytime you click download -for the installer, it uses up one LIFETIME installation." So if you have probs with your connection to download it, it takes one install.
A reinstallation of the OS, counts as a "new computer install."
And all this just to play a single player game. You don't interact with other people. Your spore downloads other peoples creatures into your game, on a separate planet. You can only have one login per computer. So you can't have your login and your kids login, you all play on the same game.
Come ten years and I want to reinstall Spore, I have to go through the whole process, and EA may not be continuing the Spore activation service. Just look at MS and FL global servers?
The DRM doesn't stop piracy. It makes honest PAYING customers jump through hoops, to be able to just PLAY the damn game. Meanwhile the pirated version has no problems, can be installed as many times as you like and doesn't even look at the hardware.
Do you get the point now? EA by putting this DRM into the game (and they said that they are putting it into every subsequent game FROM NOW ON, by the way,) is penalising their gamers, while not stopping the pirates, AND they are telling those honest gamers who do buy their product, to NOT DO THINGS PHYSICALLY TO YOUR OWN COMPUTER, which they do not have any right to do so. They do not own a single iota of my computer and it will stay that way.
Sovereign Wrote:Seek fun and you shall find it. Seek stuff to Q_Q about and you'll find that, too. I choose to have fun.
1. Guy gets the game in a store;
2. Guy opens game and proceeds to install;
3. Guy reads the EULA;
4. Guy understands he's being ripped off;
5. Guy returns to the store and says, "I don't agree with this games license terms. I would like my money back."
(multiply it a thousand times)
I haven't had a problem with any of the games I own that have DRM.
In fact, most of the people I know that own Bioshock, don't realize it also uses DRM.
Quote:Come ten years and I want to reinstall Spore, I have to go through the whole process, and EA may not be continuing the Spore activation service. Just look at MS and FL global servers?
Most likely, come 10 years, the DRM will be deactivated on the game.
... He's probably right. If EA goes out of business (Jassy forbid considering they own half the video game producers in the world practically -insert exaggeration-) they'd probably disable the DRM.
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