[:plant:] Spore some sugar on me

Originally Posted by Trigunnerz

For those of you who got the game legit, how is the DRM treating you? I honest was going to buy this game, but people started going ape shit over DRM. DRM has been labeled "draconian" as to restricting on what you can do with the game. Does it hinder any other programs? What happens if I have other priated games? What's the big deal about DRM?

Basically, they're making a mountain out of a molehill. It hasn't affected any of my other programs, and my pirated games still work fine.

The "big deal" is about how you can only install three times on different computers, and it counts hardware upgrades to a computer as a different computer. After that, you're supposed to be able to call EA Customer Support and get your installs renewed, but people claim this is difficult even if you are a legit user (I imagine they're being stricter in the beginning since most of the piracy is going on now, and it raises the question of how you already used up all your installs). I don't really care since I only upgrade my hardware every few years, though I see how this could be a concern if you upgrade a lot more often.

So then people claim that in a couple years (bullshit) EA will shut down the installation servers or that when EA eventually goes out of business, your copy will be worthless. By the time either of those happens Spore will be so old that no one cares anymore and EA will probably unlock the installations.

The fact of the matter is that BioShock, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Command & Conquer 3, World in Conflict, Neverwinter Nights 2, Hellgate: London, Tomb Raider Anniversary, and Mass Effect all came with the same version of SecuROM. Hell, Mass Effect has the exact same three-installs system, and I don't remember hearing anyone complain about it then. I mean, I'm sure some people did, but it wasn't a tenth of the shitstorm that's going on now and thus I didn't hear about it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Lukage

Because Mass Effect isn't a tenth of what Spore is.

A very good point. The anti-DRM crowd is taking the moral high ground here, but they should be rioting en masse every time this happens, not suddenly when the game they want has it. There certainly is an issue here, but the majority of complaints come across merely as flimsy excuses to steal a game they know they should be buying.

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As far as what happens after you get to the center:

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I wonder if you can "recharge" your Staff of Life as I'm afraid to waste the comical 42 uses of it

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It had better at least do that, although I hope it becomes something more powerful (something Steve said made me think it might, but I can't remember what). If not, what an anti-climactic ending to an epic journey.

Anyone know what happens if you go back to the center of the universe again, with or without a decharged staff?

I may have to use cheats just to feel more omnipotent, but I don't want the Joker badge.

There's nowhere I can't reach.