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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.
No, if I buy it it means that I want to play the game. I don't give a crap about the whole 3-installs thing affecting second-hand sales, either. So you can't buy it second hand? Oh boo hoo. Couple of years in therapy, you'll get over it.
It's not just about not being able to buy it second hand, it's about not being able to play the game you paid full price for brand new after a few installs, not to mention the spyware crap they stick on your PC in the name of protecting their intellectual property.