tobolds.blogspot.com - 12/31/2008
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I don't generally subscribe to the general gamers paranoia regarding digital rights management (DRM). I don't think SecuROM was designed to blow up my computer or spy on me, and only consider it a minor annoyance. Nevertheless I was annoyed at EA when hearing the news that Spore and other EA ...
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Spore’s DRM changes pale in comparison to Warcaft’s changes.
mendax.org —
We found it utterly ironic when Tobold complained about EA releasing Spore sans DRM via Steam. That’s because Tobold’s complaint is rooted in the fact that he was a “good little customer” who bought Spore upon release, whereas the Steam-distributed version doesn’t contain the DRM that critics of the brick’n mortar distribution had to deal with.
…please, if you remove DRM from your games, make that valid for *all* customers. Offer a patch for Spore, Mass Effect, and the other games which removes SecuROM from the original version. Otherwise you’re just teaching people to ...
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