| Chrizum said: I'm not familiar with this at all. Please explain to me, is it so that when I buy Spore, and I install it, get a new computer 3 times, I can't install Spore anymore on my 4th computer at all? If that's true, then fuck it, no Spore for me. If I buy a game, I want to be able to still play it 10 years from now. What kind of nonsense is this? |
I believe it's a total of only three installs meaning that you can only install it three times total since it has to go online and keep a log of how many times you've installed. Then, I hear that EA will only allow more installs if you call them up (on a toll phone call) and give them some sort of valid reason for them to give you another install (which I don't think it's completely clear of what a valid reason is).
Apparently Twestern has an infinately large and amazingly futuristic hard drive and he's running an operating system that runs so well, it NEVER needs to be reformatted or upgraded. Unlike him, I know that I uninstall and install my games all the time based on my free space and I also reformatted twice over the past two years and I plan on doing it again if I ever need or want to.
As others have stated, this doesn't do a thing to those who pirate the game since they not only didn't pay any money for it, but they're also not restricted by the DRM. However, this DRM plans on restricting the user which I think sucks no matter how awesome the game may or may not be. I don't mind cd-key's, especially if it's for an online game, but I don't think a game should tell me how many times I can install it before it becomes a useless frisbee.
Red Alert 3 will be getting the same treatment, except that EA said that the three install limit will be increased to five.
