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Dear Will Wright, Spore is a huge disappointment

September 11, 2008

Dear EA Games/Maxis/Will Wright,

Please explain to me why I can't more easily share Spore with my wife and children?

Why can't I install Spore on their personal computers? Why am I limited to three installs?

You have made zero accommodations for families with multiple computers. Understand I'm not asking you to let all of us play at the same time on the same license key.. it's just that at our house we have our own computers. It's completely inconvenient to not be able to use our own personal computers to play Spore. Why can't you restrict a single login on your servers to a single license key like most modern online games do?

Today I found that I can't even let my children create their own "character/planet" inside the one master login, even though the manual clearly says I can. I bought World of Warcraft once and have it installed several times on multiple computers. We share the one login but we have our own seperate characters. Why can't Spore work in a similar manner?

I bought the "Galactic Edition" of Spore since it claimed to contain "extra" content, the DVD movies, etc. Today I found the same Spore movie was being aired on the National Geographic channel on TV. So I didn't even get exclusive content.

All this DRM crap you've put in Spore only causes problems for people like me who actually bought the game. I'm quite sure you're aware the game is available for download at many bittorrent sites.

In short, Spore is a huge disappointment.

I will never buy another EA game, I swear.

Tags: spore, drm

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Well said

By: Joe <x at x dot com>

Posted: 8 months ago

You are totally correct, sir. I agree with every word and I truly sympathize with you. It's just an annoyance, an unnecessary one. One that they'll keep on throwing at you, no matter what. The entire world could, from tomorrow, stop downloading games illegally; all BT sites and their ilk shut down, and companies like EA would still employ crippling DRM in games. And they'd blame any lack of sales on the pirates too. They don't realise how harmful this is to their reputation, or that anything that can be done on a computer can, conversely, be undone; hence the large number of Spore torrents all over the internet right now. DRM is pointless, there's a better way to prevent people downloading games, such as giving people an incentive to buy it - but I doubt they'd ever be that generous.


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