Spore set to be the most downloaded game ever.

Ball Lightning · Sep 15, 2008, 10:38 PM

Spore is expected to become the most illegally downloaded game ever, taking the #1 spot from the Sims.

Spore set to be the most pirated game ever.

Rusted Armor · Sep 15, 2008, 11:17 PM

Most of the downloaders are the ones that are angry with EA for putting such a awful form of DRM in the game. So in retaliation they downloaded a DRM free version of Spore. Thinking that they I got a better version of Spore. I personally will never buy a game with such a bad version of Securom unless it is $20 in a bargain bin and I will neither download it illegally (Unless if when I do buy the game and I run out activations) as I know that Will Wright and Maxis had worked alot on this game.

Lord_Iggy · Sep 16, 2008, 04:24 PM

That SecuROM sure helped EA end piracy! Amazing!

AMAZING!

Now, why don't they start working on ending the AIDS epidemic, world starvation, and war?

Dale · Sep 16, 2008, 04:34 PM

DRM was never targetted to the online pirate community. It is EA's attack on customer's sharing disks and resales. EA wants to convert all of them into sales, which is about 100 times the size of what piracy is.

leonel · Sep 16, 2008, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord_Iggy

That SecuROM sure helped EA end piracy! Amazing!

AMAZING!

Now, why don't they start working on ending the AIDS epidemic, world starvation, and war?

Have you gone mad?! Are you trying to make things worse?!

JtheJackal · Sep 16, 2008, 07:25 PM

Of course blame the security features. More people acting like their piracy is all high and mighty and pretending they aren't actually doing anything wrong. Its just like when people blame the game prices for their piracy.

SimonL · Sep 16, 2008, 07:40 PM

Anti-DRM sentiment must have caused, oh, let's exaggerate and say an increase in 10% of piracy of the game... Even without this increase, the highly anticipated game is one of the most pirated games of all time. It's wrong. But it also makes DRM look really, really, really... oh so really... useless.

Dale · Sep 16, 2008, 08:54 PM

Actually, I know a number of people who were going to buy the game till they heard about the DRM and then pirated it instead.

Also you have to admit, mistrust in EA, exhorbitant pricing and draconium SecureROM and DRM policies contributed to this.

Rusted Armor · Sep 16, 2008, 09:28 PM

Altough if they were going to try to attack the second hand market they should have let unlimited installs but make it only possible to run the if the game is in the DVD drive and make the DVD unimageable(Probably not a word, but I mean the image can not used to load the game). Online Accounts are linked to the DVD so if you sold you would not get a "Clean Online Account". Also what is the point of stopping people from sharing if it encourages piracy, something where they get no money from.

Dale · Sep 16, 2008, 10:53 PM

The second-hand market is ten times the size of the piracy market. EA wants every person to own a copy, not the same copy recycled multiple times.

The switch from physical media to serial numbers is that media is controlled by the user. Serial numbers are centralled managed on an EA server. Also, when it comes time for Spore 2, EA can deactivate the Spore 1 server and kill every copy forcing everyone to buy Spore 2.

EA wants every person to have a serial number for their software.

Ball Lightning · Sep 16, 2008, 10:54 PM

EA to loosen DRM restrictions

Not much through, only making it so you can uninstall or "de-authorise"

Dale · Sep 16, 2008, 11:36 PM

It's my personal opinion that they got what they wanted. If you want to make a big controversial change, you put into affect a HUGE change and retract a little bit later to the level you actually want.

EA screws gamers is the bottom line. How long till other publishers follow suit?

GoodGame · Sep 18, 2008, 03:46 PM

DRM as a reason for piracy is even lamer than putting such crappy DRM in the first place. I hope piracy gets treated as a capital offense in the future.

Plexus · Sep 18, 2008, 04:19 PM

That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Onionsoilder · Sep 23, 2008, 04:15 PM

Why don't they just make it like MMOs were you need an account to play? I don't mean the $15 a month part(unless the game is really, really, really good), I mean the each person needs to be logged into an account & connected to the server to play the game part.

Lord_Iggy · Sep 23, 2008, 11:07 PM

WTF!!!

Okay, what about people who don't have constant internet access? It's utterly ridiculous making people use the internet to play a game which does not require the internet (creature sharing doesn't have to be constant).

Captain Carnage · Sep 24, 2008, 01:50 AM

Now it can be the most hyped and pirated at the same time

Sep 16, 2008, 04:24 PM	#3
Lord_Iggy The Conqueror Worm Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Yukon Posts: 17,810	That SecuROM sure helped EA end piracy! Amazing! AMAZING! Now, why don't they start working on ending the AIDS epidemic, world starvation, and war? __________________ LINESII Update 33 Progress: 22% My other house is a tesseract.

Sep 16, 2008, 04:34 PM	#4
Dale Deity Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 4,415	DRM was never targetted to the online pirate community. It is EA's attack on customer's sharing disks and resales. EA wants to convert all of them into sales, which is about 100 times the size of what piracy is. __________________ Blog: http://iPlayCiv.com \| New Civ Site: http://weplayciv.com Civ4: Col Mod: Age of Discovery II

Sep 16, 2008, 07:25 PM	#6
JtheJackal Emperor Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,129	Of course blame the security features. More people acting like their piracy is all high and mighty and pretending they aren't actually doing anything wrong. Its just like when people blame the game prices for their piracy. __________________ "Terrifying Sea Monster Turns Out To Be Even More Terrifying Amphibious Monster" -The Onion

Sep 16, 2008, 08:54 PM	#8
Dale Deity Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 4,415	Actually, I know a number of people who were going to buy the game till they heard about the DRM and then pirated it instead. Also you have to admit, mistrust in EA, exhorbitant pricing and draconium SecureROM and DRM policies contributed to this. __________________ Blog: http://iPlayCiv.com \| New Civ Site: http://weplayciv.com Civ4: Col Mod: Age of Discovery II

Sep 16, 2008, 09:28 PM	#9
Rusted Armor Chieftain Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 58	Altough if they were going to try to attack the second hand market they should have let unlimited installs but make it only possible to run the if the game is in the DVD drive and make the DVD unimageable(Probably not a word, but I mean the image can not used to load the game). Online Accounts are linked to the DVD so if you sold you would not get a "Clean Online Account". Also what is the point of stopping people from sharing if it encourages piracy, something where they get no money from. Last edited by Rusted Armor; Sep 16, 2008 at 10:32 PM. Reason: Added.

Sep 15, 2008, 10:38 PM	#1
Ball Lightning www.sporedum.net Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Thunderstorm, Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,125 Images: 3	Spore set to be the most downloaded game ever. Spore is expected to become the most illegally downloaded game ever, taking the #1 spot from the Sims. Spore set to be the most pirated game ever. __________________ Sporedum - Spore Expansion: Galactic Adventures Sporedum - Spore Expansion: Galactic Adventures Previews, News and more Last edited by Ball Lightning; Sep 17, 2008 at 02:16 AM.

Sep 15, 2008, 11:17 PM	#2
Rusted Armor Chieftain Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 58	Most of the downloaders are the ones that are angry with EA for putting such a awful form of DRM in the game. So in retaliation they downloaded a DRM free version of Spore. Thinking that they I got a better version of Spore. I personally will never buy a game with such a bad version of Securom unless it is $20 in a bargain bin and I will neither download it illegally (Unless if when I do buy the game and I run out activations) as I know that Will Wright and Maxis had worked alot on this game.

Sep 16, 2008, 07:40 PM	#7
SimonL Emperor Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Québec Posts: 1,400	Anti-DRM sentiment must have caused, oh, let's exaggerate and say an increase in 10% of piracy of the game... Even without this increase, the highly anticipated game is one of the most pirated games of all time. It's wrong. But it also makes DRM look really, really, really... oh so really... useless.

Sep 16, 2008, 10:53 PM	#10
Dale Deity Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 4,415	The second-hand market is ten times the size of the piracy market. EA wants every person to own a copy, not the same copy recycled multiple times. The switch from physical media to serial numbers is that media is controlled by the user. Serial numbers are centralled managed on an EA server. Also, when it comes time for Spore 2, EA can deactivate the Spore 1 server and kill every copy forcing everyone to buy Spore 2. EA wants every person to have a serial number for their software. __________________ Blog: http://iPlayCiv.com \| New Civ Site: http://weplayciv.com Civ4: Col Mod: Age of Discovery II

Sep 16, 2008, 10:54 PM	#11
Ball Lightning www.sporedum.net Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Thunderstorm, Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,125 Images: 3	EA to loosen DRM restrictions Not much through, only making it so you can uninstall or "de-authorise" __________________ Sporedum - Spore Expansion: Galactic Adventures Sporedum - Spore Expansion: Galactic Adventures Previews, News and more

Sep 16, 2008, 11:36 PM	#12
Dale Deity Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 4,415	It's my personal opinion that they got what they wanted. If you want to make a big controversial change, you put into affect a HUGE change and retract a little bit later to the level you actually want. EA screws gamers is the bottom line. How long till other publishers follow suit? __________________ Blog: http://iPlayCiv.com \| New Civ Site: http://weplayciv.com Civ4: Col Mod: Age of Discovery II

Sep 18, 2008, 03:46 PM	#13
GoodGame Red, White, & Blue, baby! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,382	DRM as a reason for piracy is even lamer than putting such crappy DRM in the first place. I hope piracy gets treated as a capital offense in the future. __________________ Ways to be banned from RL: Heart disease, Cancer, Strokes, Chronic Respiratory diseases, Accidents, Diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, the Flu, kidney disease, infection,... Warning: User cites from the Internet. Citing from the Internet has been proven to unimpress some teachers.

Sep 18, 2008, 04:19 PM	#14
Plexus Division-owning squid. Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ventura County, Southern California Posts: 6,777	That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. __________________ *“It's rally time!”*

Sep 23, 2008, 04:15 PM	#15
Onionsoilder Reaver Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,462 Images: 2	Why don't they just make it like MMOs were you need an account to play? I don't mean the $15 a month part(unless the game is really, really, really good), I mean the each person needs to be logged into an account & connected to the server to play the game part.

Sep 23, 2008, 11:07 PM	#16
Lord_Iggy The Conqueror Worm Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Yukon Posts: 17,810	WTF!!! Okay, what about people who don't have constant internet access? It's utterly ridiculous making people use the internet to play a game which does not require the internet (creature sharing doesn't have to be constant). __________________ LINESII Update 33 Progress: 22% My other house is a tesseract.

Sep 24, 2008, 01:50 AM	#17
Captain Carnage Prince Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 574 Images: 1	Now it can be the most hyped and pirated at the same time

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