EA Ignored The Warnings; Now Getting Slammed For Spore's DRM
Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 09 September 2008
We wrote about an uproar in the gamer community over EA's decision to include some incredibly cumbersome DRM on some new games, including the highly anticipated Spore.
Spore is getting slammed in reviews on its Amazon review page, as well over a thousand reviewers have all given the product one star, while trashing EA for the use of the DRM. Yet another lesson in what happens when your customers warn you ahead of time that they don't want you to cripple the products they buy from you -- and you fail to listen.
Just wait for the release of a cracked version. DRM has never succeeded so far and only punished those who actually paid for the product. Same this time: You're limited to a maximum of three installs and after 20 days without an Internet connection it even will refuse to start.