[:plant:] Spore some sugar on me

Originally Posted by Lukage

Because Mass Effect isn't a tenth of what Spore is.

A very good point. The anti-DRM crowd is taking the moral high ground here, but they should be rioting en masse every time this happens, not suddenly when the game they want has it. There certainly is an issue here, but the majority of complaints come across merely as flimsy excuses to steal a game they know they should be buying.

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As far as what happens after you get to the center:

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I wonder if you can "recharge" your Staff of Life as I'm afraid to waste the comical 42 uses of it

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It had better at least do that, although I hope it becomes something more powerful (something Steve said made me think it might, but I can't remember what). If not, what an anti-climactic ending to an epic journey.

Anyone know what happens if you go back to the center of the universe again, with or without a decharged staff?

I may have to use cheats just to feel more omnipotent, but I don't want the Joker badge.

Well, I guess now that you've gone and won Spore, Lukage, you can

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go look for Planet Earth and blow it up

Look, regardless of how onerous or not-onerous the DRM may arguably be, it's still objectively a piece of software designed explicitly to remove usability. What DRM is supposed to do (prevent the game being pirated), it explicitly fails at. The pirates never encounter the DRM. Surely they realize this. The whole thing is an embarassing shell game designed to reassure shareholders that "something is being done" by hassling legitimate users with crap that the thieves never have to deal with.

You can argue all you like that the DRM isn't as bad as all that, gee whiz but from a practical standpoint it has no reason to be there at all. It's just EA leaving shit on our porches. And while a flaming shitsack doesn't really hurt anybody, you'll find that most people don't much care for it and will move to a neighborhood without so much shit in it if they have the option.

Worse, the only reaction from EA will be to bundle their next big-name title with Secret Double Encrypted Ultra DRM, which will TOTALLY stop piracy this time, for sure! Gosh!

(For the sake of the argument I'll just note that I have no intention of buying OR pirating Spore, since all reliable reports seem to indicate that I got 95% of the game when I bought the Creature Creator)

Originally Posted by Trigunnerz

For those of you who got the game legit, how is the DRM treating you? I honest was going to buy this game, but people started going ape shit over DRM. DRM has been labeled "draconian" as to restricting on what you can do with the game. Does it hinder any other programs? What happens if I have other priated games? What's the big deal about DRM?

No problems here.
But then again I don't go dumbshit over DRM. I bought the game, if the DRM fucks around I'll just call EA and bitch.
I haven't noticed any installed "spyware" from SecuROM either. Torrents seem to work too (although I mainly just download Nartuo eps., lolz)

I figure if you're not a full-on dick licking fucktard pirate with terabytes of illegal content you've got nothing to worry about anyway.

Are you seriously trotting out the "if you're not a criminal you have nothing to worry about" argument?

Seriously?

Here, look, I'm slapping you.

If only you weren't so slappable. Then you wouldn't have to worry about my policy of constant slaps.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Well, I guess now that you've gone and won Spore, Lukage, you can

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go look for Planet Earth and blow it up

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I know about "Oh the Humanity" and happened across the Sol system. I'm gonna try to figure out how to map these systems so I know where the hell they all are.