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.

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Third-party?

[Hurricane78]

a moderator replied, 'It does not have third party DRM.'

So it only has their own DRM? And lots of it?

Sorry EA management. You're still a bunch of greedy criminals in suits, sniffing drugs, threating your programmers like slaves, destroying nice companies and making shitty games (or no games at all) out of their ideas. And you can't sue me, because I got proof of all I said right now!
That's the problem when you screw over the people that you need(ed). They know what you did. And they collected proof on the go.

Even if you remove all DRM, you would still have to stop behaving like assholes before I would even start thinking about buying something from you.