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Written on: May 9, 2008 by xDreamache

36 Comments

I don't have enough space in this comment box to portray how much of an idiot you made yourself sound, lucky711. The "silly"-ness of it is the fact that people who don't have a cable connection or internet at all hours of the day wouldn't be able to play the game....at all. Free or not. Some of these people would include ALL of our overseas military personnel. I think it's right to assume that any software that prevents LEGALLY PURCHASED COPIES of the game to not work anymore (just because you couldn't relay a message to EA every few days) is stupid. The whole PR stunt would've caused MORE games to be pirated just to bypass this horrible feature.

why does it seem silly to you?? Thats a really stupid thing to say!! Atleast your not paying for anything!! I say, all of you people who are complaining should be kissing EA's feet right now, bc they could have made you pay lots more for the demos, and onling thing like youtube and your SPORE space or wats it called lol..

oh... i see. well i'm glad it did get changed then. since all along they've spouted the term "massive single player" and a singleplay game that requires an internet connection just seems silly to me

Ezekel, that is the NEW proposed DRM plan. If you read the initial proposal, EA actually was going to make your game connect to the internet to authenticate every 10 days. A failed attempt would deny you access from using even the single-player mode! However, the new plan (due to the heavy negative response from the first proposed concept) is less intrusive and fairly reasonable.

it's a shame that paragraphs get squished together on here... makes bigger posts hard to read

MatchNL: thing is, that although people grumble about it, when push comes to shove, these people are still probably gonna buy the game anyway. i mean they're already been hooked by the media that's been put out there. fact of the matter also is that EA and other companies are aware of this. anyway, as far as i can work out, other than the 1st install authentication, there is no required authentication afterwards. what they are doing is saying that if you play spore without accessing the sporepedia and similar online stuff, you don't need to authenticate. however if you download content from them, the game has to do a hand shake with the server to proove it's legit. now the nice thing here is, they could have it doing this EVERY time you download something, but instead, they keep a window open. they did this probably to reduce bandwidth since the alternative is authentication on every download request (especially when you consider how many creatures buildings and other things you will DL). now i don't like this initial authentication requirement, as it does mean you have to be able to hook up the pc to the internet to activate your game. and lets be fair here, the majority of people in the world A: lack internet at all, and B: of those who have an internet access, most of them are almost computer illiterate anyway. so for those who have a seperate pc with no internet for their kid, working out how to set up a network'd connection, or simply moving the pc to a room with a socket and connecting it up is not possible. now none of the above affects me, but i'm not going to say "tough luck" or similar, because it really isn't that fair. since it IS the first game i've ever (pre-)purchased that requires you to register your game (that's pretty much what this is doing) rather than leaving that to you, i also got to state my distaste in forcing my hand on the registering issue.

If you add up all the negative uproar that fans gave to the initial DRM proposal for SPORE and Mass Effect, EA was about to lose almost 10,000 customers instantly. Lol... Bioware's forum alone had over 115 pages of angry posts. Maybe EA will learn a lesson from this.

They aren't the same link. tonsOphon linked to an earlier article that did say that, and a link was later added to it to note the correction, which is what xAndy linked to. They are on the same sight, but the article numbre is different.

xAndy, tonsOphon: I love how you both posted the same link. tonsOphon, you need to actually read the articles your posting, it says they removed it.

tonsOphon: read this about your 10 day wories:: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52618

What the hell? When I reload the page it reposts! Ok, I'm not posting anymore. This site is dangerous!

This looks like the same statement they made regarding Mass Effect. Only problem there is that if you can't validate once after install you can't play offline period. Oh and you can only install 3 times per hardware configuration. Upgrade or install on another machine and it uses up another activation. It may also be that even reinstalling after a system crash will use an activation, but that hasn't been clarified. Theres a huge debate over securom on many boards about the activation limit but I hope its not as big a problem with Spore.

This looks like the same statement they made regarding Mass Effect. Only problem there is that if you can't validate once after install you can't play offline period. Oh and you can only install 3 times per hardware configuration. Upgrade or install on another machine and it uses up another activation. It may also be that even reinstalling after a system crash will use an activation, but that hasn't been clarified. Theres a huge debate over securom on many boards about the activation limit but I hope its not as big a problem with Spore.

Damn it, I managed to post in the wrong place. x.x

quaserti, stop being stupid. Didn't you hear about the PROCEDURAL GENERATION of textures? I means you don't have to load a 2 MB graphic into the video card RAM before rendering, instead you need 2 KB to mathematically produce it. Gods, why do these n00bs think that more VRAM required means better graphics? All it means is larger texture files and more of them!

tons0phun: No, actually this is the old news that she DENIED now with this.

You also have to reverify your authentication every 10 days. Did she mention that too? http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52547 "If customers do not come online after ten days, the game will cease to function." She's a sly "politician" at that.

@killath303 meh the game will be cracked and torrented within 1 week of release regardless of the protections they put on it. Atleast with having to authenticate an account to share with other users if you want to see how your creatures will do vs other peoples you'll need to buy.

WE GOT A GAME TO FINSH

Glad to hear they care about the community

Sheesh, this is a relief for me.. I was imagining the disk erasing when my internet cut out..

lucky711 by online it means that taking other peoples work/aliens/biuldings/etc...and putting the on your world

i dont understand the letter! wat is he/she talking about, online?? please someone explain to me!!! Thank You!!

so it's like SimAnt: Apocalypse?

To me, this looks like that if you don't authenticate, you can only play offline. Still sounds nice to me.

she said you only authenticate via onlien features and new content updates (which i assume will be automatic when tehy are rolled out)

yeah, discs can be a problem for me too, so thats good news

you know what still pisses me off when people think its funny or cool to put "FIRST" no one cares that you happened to be online when the announcement was made. get over yourselves.

Wow, kind'a like a politician, says alot but means nothing... But I do like the no disc thing; I've lost alot of discs over the years!

AKA she told us what we already know.

Well that sounds a lot better but I don't buy games that require you to authenticate online, I spent to long without internet access at home so I have an intense dislike of the entire system.

Hmm.. the nodisk thing will present some problems with illigal downloads. I mean, yeah sure there are cracks but spore is just asking to be bit torrented.

Sweet!

That's all nice, but, what about the must-authenticate every 10-day?

Good to hear.

1st!! :)