Spore, toutedas the god game of the year, is being sunk on bulletin boards thanks to the daftest DRM software anyone has ever seen. EA games has a draconian DRM system that requires you to activate over the internet, and limits you to a grand total of three activations. Once you reach that limit you'll have to call EA in order to add one extra activation and provide provide proof of purchase and the reasons why the limit was reached.

It could have been worse. EA originally had wanted to get the game authenticate online every ten days, changing it to authentication whenever new content was added to the title. Currently reviews of the game are one or two stars mostly as game owners vent their spleen on the games DRM. Casual gamers who aren't aware of this campaign may not bother to read the content of the reviews and only assume the game isn't very good.

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