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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.
Some would even say that the game is responsing to outside stimuli and changing for the better in a way that could be called evolving. Or you could just EA pulled their heads out of their asses lol.
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So the DRM is gone
Read the summary again. Or at least the full title.
Hey it WAS "ERASES DRM" but they eased the the "R"!
you seem to have missed a few steps, let me help...
-1) game gets pre-cracked and pre-released by pirates days before it goes retail
0) people download and play game, and see how unfullfilling, widdled down the game really is after all the hype
1) Release extremely buggy game with restrictive drm
2) Release 2 patches a week for 3 months
2.5) ???? (the question marks are actually people scratching there heads in confusion as to wtf you are doing)
3) people already know the gameplay immensely flawed, and it's going to take more than a few quick patches to fix everything that is lacking and failing in this game.
4) repeat failures with numerous expansion packs and sequels
5) still profit because your ea games and have a monopoly on everything that is sim
The next one to have the limited Activation stench is Crysis:Warhead.
I wouldn't worry, since no one is going to be able to run the game anyway.
C3PO: Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances! The Empire may be gracious enough to...
(Han nods at Leia who promptly turns him off)
Gotta get me one of these!