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Spore Buyer's Remorse

September 9, 2008

I bought Spore on release day, the "Galactic Edition" no less. I can't begin to describe to you how unimpressed I am. That's $80, down the drain.

The game is incredibly simplistic compared to all the hype I've heard/read the past couple of years. It's not challenging at all. You're done with stage one in about 20 minutes. Stage two is about an hour, stage 3 is a couple of hours, and so on. There's very little incentive to replay the game again and again. When you consider load on the Spore servers, I suspect this is exactly what they wanted.

Then there's the DRM issue. I can't begin to understand why I'm restricted to installing this game only 3 times?!?! Does EA not realize some homes will contain children and more than one or two computers? Limiting the number of installs is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. They require a login to access the Spore servers, so there's already a very simple way to make sure only one copy of the game is ever ran at one time. EA, please take a look at how World of Warcraft does logins.

I was hoping I could install the game on my kid's computer as well as mine, but now I'm not since that will leave me with only one more chance to re-install. And I'm sure I'll need that one reinstall the next time I have to reinstall windoze because of viruses.

EA, you FAILED. You sold me rent-ware, and ripped me off for $80. I won't forget it.

Tags: spore, drm

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