Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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From: WDS
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:31

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On Sep 8, 10:05 am, DC <nob...@pseudo.borked.net> wrote:
> If you take a look at Spore's listing on Amazon.com you may be surprised to notice that the
> game (as of this writing) has an abysmal user rating of one-
> and-a-half stars. But that isn't necessarily an indictment
> of the game's quality -- out of 184 customer reviews, 159
> are one-star ratings, and just about all of them have one
> thing in common: pure, vile hatred of the game's digital
> rights management, or DRM (via Destructoid).

So what?  Of those 159 one star raters probably none of them actually
have the game.  My guess is someone orchestrated a "let's diss Spore
on Amazon" campaign.

BTW, I couldn't care less as Spore doesn't interest me.

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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:31:02 -0700 (PDT)
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