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Gamers Fight Back Against Lackluster Spore Gameplay, Bad DRM

September 9, 2008
by Ben Kuchera
Gaming Editor, Ars Technica

Ben Kuchera

Spore, after more than 10 years of development time, is finally available for the PC and Mac. The game comes from the mind of the talented Will Wright, the man who gave us The Sims and the original SimCity titles. No matter what people think about the actual game play, the story now centers around the DRM scheme EA built into the title, and a grassroots movement has begun to tell gamers just how bad the DRM sucks. The method? Bombing the comments on Amazon.com.

Right now the game has 222 customer reviews, with 194 of them giving the game one star. The game also has nine five-star reviews, two of which were written in 2006, while the other reviews spend significant amounts of time complaining about the one-star reviews. The game’s rating sits at 1.5 stars as of this writing.

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