A more fair comparison would be:
"My daughter memorized how to succesfully complete the trip from New York to Bangkok in Flight Sim, so shouldn't a pilot be able to actually fly any route as instructed?"
Or do you truly think that navigating a Wii (clicking icons on the screen with the cursor) is fundamentally different from navigating Windows (clicking icons on the screen with the cursor AND use the keyboard)...
3 "activations" per purchase... hmmm maybe the boxed version is fundamentally different from the one bought in the online store? When I started up the game, the servers were overloaded and my registration actually failed. Nevertheless, the game was fully functional (save online content sharing).
Is "activation" actually the act of registering your online account? If so, then why would you EVER need to do so more than once? If you resell your hard copy to a friend, sure... but then he could still resell it once more?
Does *anyone* have bad experiences with asking EA for a DRM reset?
And if they ever actually quit supporting the game, they could patch out DRM or something.
I realize a lot of nerds here feels that everything should be open source, and that DRM is evil incarnate, sent straight from hell for the sole purpose of annoying YOU PERSONALLY!
Seriously - how much of this criticism is based on actual bad experiences, and how much is based in idealistic hatred to DRM in general?
And please, don't whine about those couple of CPU-cycles you're losing out on. If you actually notice in any other way than opening your task manager and checking what resources are spent, I find it hard to believe your computer can even run Spore.
If the DRM issues are limited to online purchases, then voila - there's your solution: Stretch your legs and pick up Spore in your local retailer instead.
If you think the mere presence of DRM is an issue, I simply cannot sympathize with your views, and I consider you a whiner - let's agree to disagree.
If you have honest, bad experiences that prevented you from playing the game, let's hear it.
Have you actually played the game, or just done extensive review reading?
Cell Stage: Resembles flOw indeed, except the way you design your cell has impact on your tactics, both short and long term (flOw doesn't allow you to equip yourself with poison glands to kill off anything that chases you).
Creature Stage: Designing your creature right will give you special abilities such as sneak, spit and charm - the limitied DNA currency forces you to make tactical decision - the fact that you don't know which parts you'll find to unlock means that even two tactical powergamers with the same ideas will not necessarily breed creatures with similar skillsets. That fighting is simply boiled down to clicking your target repeatedly is just plain false (or how you would play if you don't know any better, cause yes - it's an option).
Tribal Stage: Are you deliberately excluding the shaman staff, that turns units into healers, from the equation to benefit your conclusion of weapon choices being insignificant? Also, the fact that axes are good vs. living things, whereas torches are good vs. buildings is not tactically unimportant. Personally, I rarely use the spears, as most of my creations have been inately able to shoot (which along with various degrees of sneak capabilities and flying are other ways for the creature designer to have impact on gameplay). I've managed to complete tribal stage with very few casualties, so zergrush being the only tactics is just plain false.
Civilization stage: Grand total of 3 different units is just plain false. You can reach 9 different units if you control both military, religious and economic costal towns (I've personally had 4 active types at once - economic and military versions of both ships and airplanes). That the AI doesn't defend itself is false on Hard difficulty. The vehicle designer actually affects the properties of your vehicles (I like my military vehicles sturdy and full of firepower, while my economic vehicles are fast and with good capacity, but frail). It just dawned on me that I actually might even think you're able to create a fast military aircraft in one city, and a slow, powerful one in another... but that needs some checking up.
Space Stage: I haven't played Star Control. Basically, I must agree that the constant attacks are a nuissance. The space stage has a lot of potential, it's just too bad that I'm constantly too busy fighting stuff off to actually check out that potential.
Basically, I'm under the impression that some 60% of the actual depth in this game is lost on you.
Are you gonna keep on refusing to adress the actual issue?
Any functional browser unable to render ActiveX should be allowed to claiming "access to the web". It should NOT be allowed to claim that "all of the internet is in it".
The argument "others are just as bad" simply holds zero validity, as the issue is Apples claim to support everything - shut up about Palm, MS, Linux etc. till you can quote them for a similar claim.
An advertisement is ment to spread a simple message. It's not supposed to require a tech-savvy person to decode and extract the actual meaning.
Any commoner is well within their right to consider Flash part of the internet.
Flash is not on the iPhone.
Not all parts of the internet is on the iPhone.
I don't refuse to listen to people who are making good cases that they didn't lie, but I have yet to spot such a case.
My Vista machine here don't have access to all parts of the internet - I can't watch embedded mov-files in IE (I know it can be fixed, but I don't want no Apple-stuff on my PC). But I can't complain, cause MS never said "all parts of the internet is in IE".
Unfortunately, "black-skinned people" don't entirely suffice... it should be "black-skinned people with bigger lips and dicks, a skull structure not entirely identical to that of white-skinned people, better sense of rhythm and the ability to jump".
Seriously though, in this age, nigger is just slang for negroid, negroid is an indication or race, refusing to acknowledge the existence of races is stupid (I can tell whether someone is a nigger, a caucasian or a mongol in less than a second with 99% (+/-1) success rate, and it doesn't even make me feel special!)
All you niggers out there, tell me how often you've been offended by another nigger saying nigger. But as soon as a white man says it, he's "referring to a history of abuse". Pfft.
Yes, racism is bad, but nigger is just a word.
I personally feel really awkward saying "black people" - cause nigger is easier, it's more integrated in popular language, and most importantly - when I say "black person", I'm being conscious about how this is supposedly some exposed group, whom we must protect and shield by constantly referring to them in politically correct terms.
I call a shovel a shovel, and a nigger a nigger - treating niggers differently is racism, and I would be treating them differently if I in fact *were* overly conscious about what I called them.
That being said, I rarely use that term, cause a persons race is rarely relevant for anything. And btw, niggers can be racists too - Chris Rock certainly seems to hate white people...
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A more fair comparison would be:
"My daughter memorized how to succesfully complete the trip from New York to Bangkok in Flight Sim, so shouldn't a pilot be able to actually fly any route as instructed?"
Or do you truly think that navigating a Wii (clicking icons on the screen with the cursor) is fundamentally different from navigating Windows (clicking icons on the screen with the cursor AND use the keyboard)...
Do you want to create another monster?
Yes I do, that's what I got this game for!
What *exactly* does this DRM imply?
3 "activations" per purchase... hmmm maybe the boxed version is fundamentally different from the one bought in the online store? When I started up the game, the servers were overloaded and my registration actually failed. Nevertheless, the game was fully functional (save online content sharing).
Is "activation" actually the act of registering your online account? If so, then why would you EVER need to do so more than once? If you resell your hard copy to a friend, sure... but then he could still resell it once more?
Does *anyone* have bad experiences with asking EA for a DRM reset?
And if they ever actually quit supporting the game, they could patch out DRM or something.
I realize a lot of nerds here feels that everything should be open source, and that DRM is evil incarnate, sent straight from hell for the sole purpose of annoying YOU PERSONALLY!
Seriously - how much of this criticism is based on actual bad experiences, and how much is based in idealistic hatred to DRM in general?
And please, don't whine about those couple of CPU-cycles you're losing out on. If you actually notice in any other way than opening your task manager and checking what resources are spent, I find it hard to believe your computer can even run Spore.
If the DRM issues are limited to online purchases, then voila - there's your solution: Stretch your legs and pick up Spore in your local retailer instead.
If you think the mere presence of DRM is an issue, I simply cannot sympathize with your views, and I consider you a whiner - let's agree to disagree.
If you have honest, bad experiences that prevented you from playing the game, let's hear it.
Have you actually played the game, or just done extensive review reading?
Cell Stage: Resembles flOw indeed, except the way you design your cell has impact on your tactics, both short and long term (flOw doesn't allow you to equip yourself with poison glands to kill off anything that chases you).
Creature Stage: Designing your creature right will give you special abilities such as sneak, spit and charm - the limitied DNA currency forces you to make tactical decision - the fact that you don't know which parts you'll find to unlock means that even two tactical powergamers with the same ideas will not necessarily breed creatures with similar skillsets. That fighting is simply boiled down to clicking your target repeatedly is just plain false (or how you would play if you don't know any better, cause yes - it's an option).
Tribal Stage: Are you deliberately excluding the shaman staff, that turns units into healers, from the equation to benefit your conclusion of weapon choices being insignificant? Also, the fact that axes are good vs. living things, whereas torches are good vs. buildings is not tactically unimportant. Personally, I rarely use the spears, as most of my creations have been inately able to shoot (which along with various degrees of sneak capabilities and flying are other ways for the creature designer to have impact on gameplay). I've managed to complete tribal stage with very few casualties, so zergrush being the only tactics is just plain false.
Civilization stage: Grand total of 3 different units is just plain false. You can reach 9 different units if you control both military, religious and economic costal towns (I've personally had 4 active types at once - economic and military versions of both ships and airplanes). That the AI doesn't defend itself is false on Hard difficulty. The vehicle designer actually affects the properties of your vehicles (I like my military vehicles sturdy and full of firepower, while my economic vehicles are fast and with good capacity, but frail).
It just dawned on me that I actually might even think you're able to create a fast military aircraft in one city, and a slow, powerful one in another... but that needs some checking up.
Space Stage: I haven't played Star Control. Basically, I must agree that the constant attacks are a nuissance. The space stage has a lot of potential, it's just too bad that I'm constantly too busy fighting stuff off to actually check out that potential.
Basically, I'm under the impression that some 60% of the actual depth in this game is lost on you.
Are you gonna keep on refusing to adress the actual issue? Any functional browser unable to render ActiveX should be allowed to claiming "access to the web". It should NOT be allowed to claim that "all of the internet is in it".
The argument "others are just as bad" simply holds zero validity, as the issue is Apples claim to support everything - shut up about Palm, MS, Linux etc. till you can quote them for a similar claim. An advertisement is ment to spread a simple message. It's not supposed to require a tech-savvy person to decode and extract the actual meaning. Any commoner is well within their right to consider Flash part of the internet. Flash is not on the iPhone. Not all parts of the internet is on the iPhone. I don't refuse to listen to people who are making good cases that they didn't lie, but I have yet to spot such a case. My Vista machine here don't have access to all parts of the internet - I can't watch embedded mov-files in IE (I know it can be fixed, but I don't want no Apple-stuff on my PC). But I can't complain, cause MS never said "all parts of the internet is in IE".
Unfortunately, "black-skinned people" don't entirely suffice... it should be "black-skinned people with bigger lips and dicks, a skull structure not entirely identical to that of white-skinned people, better sense of rhythm and the ability to jump". Seriously though, in this age, nigger is just slang for negroid, negroid is an indication or race, refusing to acknowledge the existence of races is stupid (I can tell whether someone is a nigger, a caucasian or a mongol in less than a second with 99% (+/-1) success rate, and it doesn't even make me feel special!) All you niggers out there, tell me how often you've been offended by another nigger saying nigger. But as soon as a white man says it, he's "referring to a history of abuse". Pfft. Yes, racism is bad, but nigger is just a word. I personally feel really awkward saying "black people" - cause nigger is easier, it's more integrated in popular language, and most importantly - when I say "black person", I'm being conscious about how this is supposedly some exposed group, whom we must protect and shield by constantly referring to them in politically correct terms. I call a shovel a shovel, and a nigger a nigger - treating niggers differently is racism, and I would be treating them differently if I in fact *were* overly conscious about what I called them. That being said, I rarely use that term, cause a persons race is rarely relevant for anything. And btw, niggers can be racists too - Chris Rock certainly seems to hate white people...