spore ^_^

[Loony BoB]

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.

Basically if you want to play a game, save up the amount that you feel is worth spending on it. I just happen to believe it's worth the £27 or so I spent on it, and was more than happy to spend that amount. I'd have spent more if it wasn't that cheap at the place I bought it from. It's a fairly unique game and I felt like something different. I'm also happy to encourage EA (by giving them my money) to keep financing this sort of innovation.