Spore...

[Sam]

Okay, so I just learned that Spore uses "DRM"? (i'm not sure if i used that term right).

Anyway, it's that thingamabobber that says "oh, yeah, you bought the game. But you can only install it three times total, oh and if we ever decide that we don't want spore to exist anymore, we can terminate it off all your computers."

SO, question. People seem really peeved about this. I want the game. But if this stuff is really that big of a pain in the ass... what to do? I know like.. I have Microsoft Works 2007, and they said that can only be downloaded 3 times.. But I've reformatted my hard drive and redownloaded it at least 4 times, and it's been installed on this laptop twice.

Now, I want to be realistic. If I get the game, I know, without a doubt, that it will be installed (perfectly legally and within my household) way more than 3 times probably just within the next 6 months. I need to reinstall things all the time. My dad thinks he's brilliant and ends up uninstalling shit constantly. We have three computers (and with 3 little brothers,. it's usually wise to have games installed on them all.)

I don't want to install the game illegally. I'm all for paying for it like a good girl. But I will, without a doubt, find my way to a nice torrent if EA suddenly decides I can't reinstall the game.

Also, i read "SecuROM eats up computer processing power and memory ", 'tis true? anything significant enough to care about?

And finally, does anyone know the extent of the online gameplay?

and I'd appreciate people not posting things like "just don't get it spore sucks."

[Hiro]

Oh my silly Sam, just get it.

[Sam]

Oh my silly Sam, just get it.

answer my questions ;-;

[Hiro]

Don't worry about the drm, the ram thing shouldn't be a problem if they  are good computers, and i'm not sure of online, i think It's that you can download other people's things on sporepedia and when you play, you will cross through other people's games.

[The Speaker Of Words]

You can call EA if you want to install more than 3 times.
Read about it on Wikipedia.

[YPrrrr]

The game doesn't sound very addicting, but maybe I'm missing something... Is it any good?

[Geno]

The game has gotten good reviews. But apparently the DRM brings it down.
But yeah you can still buy it without any problems probably.

[The artist formally known]

I don't plan on buying it because of this, I didn't want it that much and I was waiting for it to drop in price but now I don't feel like owning something like this because of that reason.

They'll reset it for you, but if they ever go under, you're screwed.

[Sam]

I'm mad at spore. 

I encountered a major glitch on my first game; My home base was somehow placed UNDERWATER when it was supposed to be me emerging on lang, My planet was completely screwed up, everytime I walked onto land a creature immediately killed me (the same creature who is only suppoed to appear when you swim too far away from the shore).

I had to restart from the cell stage. I was angry and frustrated.

And on this new file, there's this one rouge creature with 1000 life (to put that in perspective; after playing for 4 hours I had 31 life.)

He roams the entire planet, and if he sees me, there's no chance to run away. Once I thought I could find refuge at my base, so I ran there and stopped, thinking I was safe.

Died less than 5 seconds later.

It's really frustrating at times. ;-;

But generally speaking, the game is fun. And Even more than that, it's extremely interesting from a scientific point of view.

I suggest getting it after a price drop.

[KonohaShinobi]

I suggest getting it after a price drop.

I would suggest not buying it at all. From my personal experience with the game (torrented nonDRM leaked version) it is definately not worth the retail price as it is way too short and uninteresting. It's just a collection of minigames and the game itself attempts way too many things and does not really exceed at any of them. Sure, creating a creature is fun, the little eating frenzy is cool at the beginning, the tribal and civilization stages are alright, but once the space stage hits you are just babysitting planets and that is not any fun at all. Also, the online feature is very lackluster, more could have been done with the sporepedia, but eh, what you get is what you get.

It's fun for one playthrough, but after that there is not much left to it. Sims 2 has more replayability than Spore does, so instead of buying Spore, torrent one of the early nonDRM versions, play through it, delete it, then buy Sims 2, but then again if you actually purchased Spore then you most likely are already a casual gamer and already have Sims 2 on your gaming shelf along with it's 9 expansion packs.

[Sam]

I would suggest not buying it at all. From my personal experience with the game (torrented nonDRM leaked version) it is definately not worth the retail price as it is way too short and uninteresting. It's just a collection of minigames and the game itself attempts way too many things and does not really exceed at any of them. Sure, creating a creature is fun, the little eating frenzy is cool at the beginning, the tribal and civilization stages are alright, but once the space stage hits you are just babysitting planets and that is not any fun at all. Also, the online feature is very lackluster, more could have been done with the sporepedia, but eh, what you get is what you get.

It's fun for one playthrough, but after that there is not much left to it. Sims 2 has more replayability than Spore does, so instead of buying Spore, torrent one of the early nonDRM versions, play through it, delete it, then buy Sims 2, but then again if you actually purchased Spore then you most likely are already a casual gamer and already have Sims 2 on your gaming shelf along with it's 9 expansion packs.

I'm a huge Sims fan, so yeah- I do have Sims 2. It's one of my favorite games, I wasn't expectikng Spore to top that.

But I don't think Spore is a bad game, just not quite worth $50. Maybe $20-30.