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I see a few of us have started playing Spore...

any comments you'd like to share?

I here the insane DRM protection on it is making it almost unplayable across many computers.

Yeah I've heard about the DRM...

Problem I'm having now is I can't find information about the game itself because everyone keeps talking about DRM DRM DRM lol

I saw it up on Direct2Drive, but I'll wait for it to come to Steam. I really wished that there was a best of both worlds situation where you can have the physical Galactic Edition copy but the freedom of Steam. I've held off on my purchase until the situation is sorted.

I have it now and am enjoying it. Lots of fun with customization and stuff. But the game seems to have a grudge against me for even trying to play with high resolution.

Check out this review of it:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... /218-Spore

EA sued over Spore DRM

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot Posted Sep 24, 2008 11:16 am PT Class action filed in US District Court contends that publisher hides fact game installs irremovable SecuROM, violating two California laws.

Ever since Spore was released on September 7, an uproar has been growing. Many gamers have taken great exception to the fact the PC game comes bundled with SecuROM digital rights management software. One criticism is that SecuROM only allows the game to be installed on three computers before locking. As a result of the outcry, EA expanded the number of Spore installs to five PCs last week.

Still, a more persistent complaint is that, once installed, SecuROM cannot be removed. Accusations have also been leveled that the program amounts to malware or spyware, since it monitors computer use to prevent duplication.

Spore's use of SecuROM has sparked a major backlash, with pirates using the DRM as justification to download illegal copies of the title. A recent Forbes article pointed out that the game was widely pirated in the days after its release, with the blog TorrentFreak claiming 500,000 illegal downloads of the game were made in just one week.

Now, two weeks after the illegal response to Spore began, EA faces a new, legal challenge to its DRM policy. This week, a class action suit was filed in the North District of California Court by the law firm KamberEdelson on behalf of one Melissa Thomas and all other Spore purchasers. According to the filing, which was made available by Courthousenews.com, the suit contends that EA violated the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act and Unfair Competition Law by not informing consumers installing Spore will also install SecurROM.

"Although consumers are told the game uses access control and copy protection technology, consumers are not told that this technology is actually an entirely separate, stand-alone program which will download, install, and operate on their computer," read the complaint. "Once installed, it becomes a permanent part of the consumer's software portfolio. Even if the consumer uninstalls Spore, and entirely deletes it from their computer, SecurROM remains a fixture on their computer unless and until the consumer completely wipes their hard drive through reformatting or replacement of the drive."

The suit accuses EA of "intentionally" hiding the fact Spore uses SecurROM, which it alleges is "secretly installed to the command and control center of the computer (Ring 0, or the Kernel) and [is] surreptitiously operated, overseeing function and operation of the computer, and preventing the computer from operating under certain circumstances and/or disrupting hardware operations." The suit also claims the SecurROM takes over a portion of the PC's processing resources "to transmit information back to EA."

The filing asks the judge to certify the action as a class action, and award anyone in it damages equal to the purchase price of Spore and "actual damages, statutory damages, or treble damages." Given Spore's success, paying back thrice its $49.99 price tag could prove costly for EA, which had not responded to requests for comment as of press time.

well, fsuck.

Saw this coming for a while now...

So does this mean that i'll get caught and prosecuted for the way i got the game.....?

Ender[CotC] wrote:So does this mean that i'll get caught and prosecuted for the way i got the game.....?

yes











jk

I guess that would make two of us.

I've been playing it for the past couple of days.
Kinda catchy, but I doubt I'll continue for much longer.
I just don't have the time for these things these days, so unless it gives me a BJ... lol

ha! yeah.

i played it once through... and it got really repetitive. Make friends with these people. Kill those people. Pay those people not to kill me... but the big nuke thing and blow up a planet.

I didn't register online though. At least i'm that smart.