People review these "early" copies and then, regardless of whether the retail game has that deliberate huge bug, your reputation as a game developer is damaged. I believe Ubisoft had this problem recently.

Did you even read the original post I made?  Reviewers would get real copies of the game, pirates would get the bugged version.

And destroying pirates hard drives wouldn't ruin my reputation (well, it might ruin my reputation with pirates but I'm already saying fuck off to them so who cares).  It would only ruin my reputation if that bug shipped in the retail version.

Downloading pirated software is illegal so you get no protection at all. They could pump it full of new released viruses if they wanted to and so long as it was leaked anonymously who would know that it was the developer?

looks like torrentleech to me


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anywho.. as far as i care, they can download spore if they want, they won't be able to have access to the real meat of the product though, which is the online world, so too bad for them i guess

It doesn't matter, if they don't have a real copy of SPORE they won't be able to go online, which ruins 90% of the game's fun.

You got it wrong, the installs are unlimited. But you can only do is activate the game on upto 3 different PCs, and each activated PC will have unlimited installs of SPORE. And even if you do run out of activations, you can still ask EA to give some more.

Seriously, shut up. The first stages are fun and give a moto and believability to the game's progress. In terms of costumization and replayability, SPORE is second to none (what other game let's you make your own national anthem and buildings/vehicles?)

Besides, the "true" game only comes in the final stage, which according to some people is over 20 hours alone.

That's stupid.

Yeah DRM is annoying...but it sounds like you're trying to install the game on multiple PCs at the same time...you honestly believe you should be allowed to simultaneously play this game on multiple PCs?  That's like buying the game 4 times...

That wouldn't make sense...I mean, Steam lets you install on as many PCs as you want...but you can only log into one computer at a time...if you could freely put the game on an infinite number of computers there'd be no point for anyone to buy the game...

So instead of paying $50 you're going to pay $0, just because you can't play the game on an infinite number of PCs, just like most games DON'T let you do?  K...

Ah, Flow...I remember when the original Flow flash game came out, right after the Spore cell phase was first demoed.  It was just copying Spore...it's just taken Spore so long to come out.

I'm waiting for my Galactic Edition :P 

and I can wait, in fact I wanted to finish some singleplayer games but I won't be able to, it's already wednesday and I won't have time to finish them :(

I know it is only 3 activations and not 3 installations. The problem is, I change OS a lot in my PC, and it is MY PC, if I already pay once for the game, I have the right to change my OS/mobo/vga/processor a lot. The only thing they should do is to forbid two identical serials to log in the sporepedia at the same time, and ban the serial once 3 or more try to connect at the same time.

Just curious (this isn't any kind of criticism), why do you change OS's a lot? I would think most people change theirs every 4-5 years and even that is a short estimate.