So why do people hate the dreaded Spore DRM (or any DRM) again?

[Shinlock]

twesterm said:

Gamerace said:
Spore is exactly the type of game I'd play (or imagine I'd play) for many years. In that case, just the odd re-install of Windows due to virus or simply cleaning out the clutter will cause me to hit the 3 install limit. Add new computer. Plus I'd want one copy on my laptop and one on my home PC - both are for my personal use.

Secondly, this eliminates being able to sell it used (or often even give it away). That's good for the publisher yes. But what if your car had a set limit of owners? Or your movies only allowed itself to be played in 3 dvd players over it's life? Or a book could only be read 3 times? Would that normally affect you? No. Would it if it was a favorite movie/book? Hell yes. It's a stupid pratice especially since it's not stopping piracy one bit.

 

Do you really have to install Windows that often?  Maybe now I'm guilty of thinking I'm the majority, but I've had to do that once in the last 8 years and that was merely because of a bad hard drive.  I'm big believer in it's hard to get a virus that destroys your hard drive as long as you pay attention.

 

Most PC gamers and techs do an install once a year at least. Windows does natively slow down over time, Registery cleaning tools aren't the silver bullet at speeding up load times and responsiveness (although they help).

Viruses/spyway/trojans are getting tricker to remove. Even good antivirus and spyway removal software isn't perfect.. the best too for removing them is formating your harddrives (if you don't care or have regular backups of your important data).

as for me, in the last 12 months I've reinstall windows once, that was mostly due to a OS switch.