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

[IllegalPaladin]

NJ5 said:

SamuelRSmith said:

jasonnc80 said:
I went to gamestop to buy a PC game last night.

I looked at Spore, a couple of the employees there told me how fun it was, then I bought Diablo 2.

I still have games on floppy disk that I can install if I want to. I won't buy a game that limits paying customers in such a way sorry.

 

You can install it as many times as you want. You just need to authenticate the fourth installation over the phone.

Is that fourth installation guaranteed? Or do they reserve the right of not allowing you to install a fourth time?

Not that this would change my opinion much, but it is an interesting question nonetheless.

 

I don't think it is, but rather they mention it to have people feel better about it. I don't trust them when they say it's for 'special circumstances'. Not only that, I hear that the phone call requires a toll so that you'll be wasting money trying to get them to let you play the game you paid for again.