Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
As for people not wanting to "give in to the EA empire" I find it all rather silly. I can understand people making a protest by way of Amazon or whatever, I suppose - although it does just go to show that you can't rely on Amazon's reviews as they aren't basing their one-star reviews on anything but the fact it's an EA game with EA's anti-piracy measures. But I don't get why people simply don't buy a game because it's an EA game. I mean, can't you just hack it easily enough? If not, oh well, your loss. Spore - and Mass Effect even more so - is a quality game and anyone who doesn't play it just because it's an EA game is missing out.
If you buy it, you're telling EA it's ok to do it, and that you don't mind being screwed over by overbearing DRM. The only way they're going to stop this is if it hurts sales.

Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
DRM isn't to hurt pirates. They know DRM can't stop pirates, heck Spore was on the torrents within hours of its Aussie release. The very purpose of DRM is one of its supposed side-effects: Destroying the second hand market.

Publishers have hated that for years. In Japan the big guys have actually been trying to make it illegal since at least the mid 90s. Now they can dress it up like this - as a protection against lawbreaking - and the people who know the truth about how ineffective it is aren't that big a sector of the market anymore.

People talk about how DRM hurts legitimate consumers like that's not the point of it.
Either way, it's just driving more people to pirate their games. People aren't just going to buy it and not resell it. They're not going to buy it in the first place.