Spore - DRM

Neil79 · 12 Sep 2008 at 15:13

http://www.tomshardware.com/Spore-DRM,video-301.html

There is already a red alert drm thread and sacred 2 now add this :mad:

Wyrdo · 12 Sep 2008 at 15:14

This has already been discussed to death in the Spore thread.

Neil79 · 12 Sep 2008 at 15:15

Ok , close thread

( it is a good video though )

Richdog · 12 Sep 2008 at 15:18

Sigh.

matt_fsr · 12 Sep 2008 at 17:12

Ok , close thread

May I just disagree with that? I dont wanna play Spore, or indeed read a huge thread about it.... but being made aware of the DRM restrictions and sheer stupidity of it cant be a bad thing on a gaming forum?

uknowist · 12 Sep 2008 at 17:15

WTLW

sorry had to be done

Darkwave · 12 Sep 2008 at 18:00

That was a good video until he jumped on the "it installs rootkits in your system!" fearmongering at the end, obviously keeping with the standard of journalism Tom's Hardware is known for. Muppet.

NickK · 12 Sep 2008 at 18:44

matt_fsr said:
May I just disagree with that? I dont wanna play Spore, or indeed read a huge thread about it.... but being made aware of the DRM restrictions and sheer stupidity of it cant be a bad thing on a gaming forum?

According to that link - all future EA titles will be have securerom.

mrgubby · 12 Sep 2008 at 19:19

NickK said:
According to that link - all future EA titles will be have securerom.

Except for the ones you get for £5 down the market

Amleto · 12 Sep 2008 at 23:35

uknowist said:
****
sorry had to be done

That was suspendable offense lsat I knew. Just sayin'

Klo · 12 Sep 2008 at 23:39

Amleto said:
That was suspendable offense lsat I knew. Just sayin'

Hmm, perhaps a warning. Not sure about suspension though.

russ0r · 13 Sep 2008 at 00:03

Ulfhedjinn said:
That was a good video until he jumped on the "it installs rootkits in your system!" fearmongering at the end, obviously keeping with the standard of journalism Tom's Hardware is known for. Muppet.

He didn't say it installs rootkits in your system. He said SecuROM uses rootkit-like technology. Which it does.

Darkwave · 13 Sep 2008 at 01:18

russ0r said:
He didn't say it installs rootkits in your system. He said SecuROM uses rootkit-like technology. Which it does.

Firstly; He was like "installing this crap in your system, rootkits rar!!" I may have paraphrased a little there, but the point stands that there wasn't even any reason to bring it up because less informed people will get all scared about ebil r00tkitz in their games now. I just hate it when people cry wolf.

Secondly; It's not a rootkit or rootkit-like, rootkits make changes to and hijack functions of your OS using admin privileges. SecuROM is within the game and it's not unlike any copy protection you may have had before, bar the activation crap which is new. People cried wolf about rootkits when Bioshock came out and it turned out to be false then, it wouldn't surprise me if it was the same people crying wolf yet again.

Frankly I'm getting annoyed with explaining this to people, stop scaring people with misinformation!

Its_Me · 13 Sep 2008 at 08:14

After reading the large Spor thread and various websites, sadly due to the stupidity of EA I will not not be buying.

Tefal · 13 Sep 2008 at 08:29

Ulfhedjinn said:
because less informed people will get all scared about ebil r00tkitz in their games now. I just hate it when people cry wolf.

No, less informed people will neither be watching this video, nor have any idea what a root kit is...

Darkwave · 13 Sep 2008 at 10:09

Tefal said:
No, less informed people will neither be watching this video, nor have any idea what a root kit is...

The people who have no idea of what a rootkit is are the ones shouting about Spore having one.