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Hober on September 17, 2008, 1:05 am
This is basically what they did with Bioshock: people went nuts and they released a de-authorizing tool.
When Mass Effect came out and no one went nuts? No de-authorization. Quoth Wikipedia:
Teh Wikipediaz wrote:
The game's limit of 3 activations also remains, and players will no longer be able to play the game after having used up the activations.
Also, I ended up putting pen to paper on this topic:
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So maybe it's not actually about piracy. Taking, as a lemma ? although it hasn't been proven ? that [their] behavior is some how rational, EA must be getting something from this DRM. The only thing that makes sense here is what some Internet People have been saying: it's more about making it a pain in the ass to sell the game used.
Even though the open-ended, create-your-own, partially-open-world gameplay has great replayability, maybe EA is worried that not everyone will hang on to their copy for longer than a month. This is a problem for them because, as I understand it, Spore is still in the red despite massive sales, given its huge development costs. It will turn a profit long term with endless expansion packs the same way Will Wright's last major title, The Sims, did.
This is basically what they did with Bioshock: people went nuts and they released a de-authorizing tool.
When Mass Effect came out and no one went nuts? No de-authorization. Quoth Wikipedia:
Teh Wikipediaz wrote:
The game's limit of 3 activations also remains, and players will no longer be able to play the game after having used up the activations.
Also, I ended up putting pen to paper on this topic:
Quote:
So maybe it's not actually about piracy. Taking, as a lemma ? although it hasn't been proven ? that [their] behavior is some how rational, EA must be getting something from this DRM. The only thing that makes sense here is what some Internet People have been saying: it's more about making it a pain in the ass to sell the game used.
Even though the open-ended, create-your-own, partially-open-world gameplay has great replayability, maybe EA is worried that not everyone will hang on to their copy for longer than a month. This is a problem for them because, as I understand it, Spore is still in the red despite massive sales, given its huge development costs. It will turn a profit long term with endless expansion packs the same way Will Wright's last major title, The Sims, did.
HEY NOW YOU PIRATES, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING.
