SPORE!

[chovynz]

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.

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