With the latest Securom insanity in regards to Spore, I have to say EA’s real agenda is to force gamers onto consoles rather than curb piracy. These days, console gaming is much more expensive than PC gaming, and there’ no way I’m spending $300-$400 on a console, much less $50 or so dollars on games. While they’ve decided not to add the stupidity-and-greed-induced 10 day check to Spore, they’ve still not removed the 3 install limit. It’s insane. The game will be utterly unplayable in 10 years time when EA decides the Spore hay-day is over. Given the fact this will be a classic game, that’s just sad.
Authentication will make it impossible to install the game on PC once the EA servers go down. The 3 install limit will make things worse, though I suspect they’re going to pull a Bioshock and add unlimited installs in a patch later. All I can say is that these patches better be download-able. Including one to make authentication unnecessary. I doubt the latter will happen.
