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EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM
Trevor DeRiza writes "Today, Valve and EA revealed that this week's earlier rumors were true: Spore (and other EA games) are coming to Steam. As of today, Spore, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer Online, Mass Effect, Need for Speed: Undercover, and FIFA Manager 2009 are all available for download on Steam. In the coming weeks, EA will add Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, and Red Alert 3. On the official Steam forums, when asked whether or not Spore would contain the dreaded SecuROM DRM that contributed to it being the most pirated game of 2008, a moderator replied, 'It does not have third party DRM.' EA has also finally launched a 'de-authorization tool' to free up limited installation slots."
Several readers have written to point out other news about Steam today: they've begun selling games priced in local currency for European customers. The only problem? Their conversion rate seems to be $1 per €1, somewhat less favorable than the current exchange rate, which is roughly $1.40 per €1.
The only problem? Their conversion rate seems to be $1 per â1, somewhat less favorable than the current exchange rate, which is roughly $1.40 per â1.
Not a problem for me. 25 years ago I got a bottle of St. Emelion that tasted funny. Paid big money for it too. Later I found out that it was from a vintage that had been doctored.
The French have been keeping the good stuff and exporting the dregs forever.
Revenge is sweet.
Whenever I see this I'm always expecting it to be followed by the obligatory long explanation of how "it's not a bad analogy blah blah blah" scattered with links to other people who are saying the same thing.
I'm kinda happy that there wasn't one after yours, although I'm secretly cheering for it-wasn't-a-bad-analogy to become its own meme, representing that portion of the tech community that cares just a bit too much about the logic of memes.
Hmmm...now that I've spent so much time on this response I feel like a should copy-and-paste it everywhere I see a lonely "tubes" comment...but I won't.
Or will I?
No, no I won't.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
I know they are different companies, but I wish rockstar (take two whoever it is) would remove the drm from GTA IV for the pc.
Oh for mod points...
All intents and purposes. Not intensive purposes.
Many posts get modded to +5 funny, but this is above and beyond. Your post is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time, slashdot or otherwise. Bravo.