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EA Patches Spore, Eases DRM
EA has released the first patch for Spore, the purpose of which is to fix a number of bugs and tweak some gameplay settings to be more entertaining. Some of the visual effects were upgraded as well. They've also officially responded to the complaints about Spore's DRM, stating their intention to increase the number of allowed installations to five and to set up a system to "de-authorize" systems in order to reclaim the installation credit. They plan to allow multiple screen names per account, which was an issue for many families trying to play the game. This comes not long after EA made similar changes to the DRM of upcoming RTS Red Alert 3, and after Spore's DRM protest spread to in-game creature designs. Reader SoopahMan notes that users in EA's Spore tech support forum are reporting a number of new issues caused by the patch.
over 9000 penises!!!!!
It would be nice if we could get an official response about the fact that the game isn't that fun.
It's got no replayability and the space stage is just tedious. I've already moved on to other games.
Those 1990 and 1980s games from EA are just as copyrighted now as they were then. You are publicly admitting to larceny and I hope you're nailed to the wall for it. Right to the fucking wall.