🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon,  8 Sep 2008 09:05:07 -0600 (MDT), DC
<nobody@pseudo.borked.net> wrote:

>1Up.com http://atu.ca/647
>
>If you take a look at Spore's listing on Amazon.com 
>http://atu.ca/SPORE 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).

I'm no fan of this type of copy protection, and could give less than a
shit about Spore, but this reeks of some web sites DRM agenda.

Here is my take on this, and what I suggest publishers do... These
titles are mostly only hot to pirates when they're new. If they
implement the DRM for the first few months of of the release they
would protect their program and satisfy long term fans. Perhaps patch
it or have it do one last "phone home" once the game hits the 20
dollar price point. After that point, all you would need is the CD key
and the install limitation would be removed.

I don't understand why someone would need to reinstall 3 times in that
time period unless they're a shithead that deserves to deal with phone
support.