Amazon users slam Spore for DRM
The
Digital Rights Madness around
Spore has started an internet war. After demonstrating their power earlier this year with the
"Mass Effect Sex-box" author, a gang of ruthless Amazon reviewers have struck
Spore (and to a lesser extent the
Galactic Edition) down to a
paltry 1.5 out of 5 stars. Here's what those Negative Nancies are saying:
- Dumbed down experience and draconian DRM
- DRM is a show stopper
- Spore: I Refuse to Buy Until DRM is Patched Out
- No Way, No How, No DRM
- drm makes me a sad panda
- $49.99 too much for game rental
Notice a trend here? The
Spore DRM, so far as we know, works exactly like
Mass Effect's system: You have 3 activations for installation, and after that you will reportedly have to call EA for more (and uninstalls won't work to raise that number). Of course, those reviews haven't stopped
Spore from being
#1 in video game sales on Amazon (Galactic Edition at #12), and we doubt
any negative reviews will. As Will Wright aptly told
MTV Multiplayer, "We would rather have the Metacritic and sales of
Sims 2 than the Metacritic and sales of
Half-Life."
