SAY "NO!" Anti-Piracy System For Spore
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Calling out to all Spore fans. The the new shitty anti-piracy system will screw up many players. This is the current system they hold:
"1. You get three total activations. This means the game can be placed onto three computers. This can be three different computers, or the same computer upgraded three times. Every time you try to run the game on what the server thinks of as a new system, one of your three activations is consumed. This means your relationship with the game is directly affected by how often you upgrade.
2. Once the game is activated, youre free to play for five days without hassle. After five days, the game will try to call the mothership on startup. If it cant get through - for whatever reason - it will still let you play.
3. After ten days since activation, if it still hasnt been able to reach the mothership, the game will refuse to run. It will not run again until it can once again call home. Anytime it does call home and finds out everything is fine, the timer is reset and you have five days before it will attempt to connect again.
4. If your serial number ends up on the web, it will be blacklisted. (Note that this means they must be trolling the warez sites and torrents. Which makes this entire charade even more ludicrous. They must know how quickly their games are cracked. This isnt ignorance, this is willful delusion.) Next time the game phones home, it will what? They arent really specific on what it will say or do if youre using a banned serial number, but whatever it is you wont be playing your game.
5. They claim that there is only a 1 in 3 billion chance of someone guessing your registration number. Ive written about the massive number space of serial numbers before, and this isnt that hard to believe. But this assumes the hacker is just going to sit there and blindly guess at numbers. Hackers arent that stupid. The hacker will usually (I assume) try to figure out what system is used to denote valid serial numbers via some sort of reverse-engineering. Since the server is in charge of approving serial numbers and not the local executable, this would be very hard to do. The hacker would need an awful lot of serial numbers to work with. So this part of the system is pretty secure. However, its still pointless, since it will be easy enough to disable the mothership call - no different than disabling a DVD check.
6. You do not need to have the DVD in the drive to play. This is what they are using to sell the scheme to users as one of the benefits of the new system."
What they don't realize is that if something has potential people will buy it. However if they create such a piracy system, they will lose more money then they will save from piracy.
Alot of people have many PCs and would like to upgrade them. Some of us would like to show the game to their friends. But, the three installation thing kicks many people in the teeth.
By singing this petition you agree to boycott spore until the new anti-piracy system has been improved or dismissed.
"1. You get three total activations. This means the game can be placed onto three computers. This can be three different computers, or the same computer upgraded three times. Every time you try to run the game on what the server thinks of as a new system, one of your three activations is consumed. This means your relationship with the game is directly affected by how often you upgrade.
2. Once the game is activated, youre free to play for five days without hassle. After five days, the game will try to call the mothership on startup. If it cant get through - for whatever reason - it will still let you play.
3. After ten days since activation, if it still hasnt been able to reach the mothership, the game will refuse to run. It will not run again until it can once again call home. Anytime it does call home and finds out everything is fine, the timer is reset and you have five days before it will attempt to connect again.
4. If your serial number ends up on the web, it will be blacklisted. (Note that this means they must be trolling the warez sites and torrents. Which makes this entire charade even more ludicrous. They must know how quickly their games are cracked. This isnt ignorance, this is willful delusion.) Next time the game phones home, it will what? They arent really specific on what it will say or do if youre using a banned serial number, but whatever it is you wont be playing your game.
5. They claim that there is only a 1 in 3 billion chance of someone guessing your registration number. Ive written about the massive number space of serial numbers before, and this isnt that hard to believe. But this assumes the hacker is just going to sit there and blindly guess at numbers. Hackers arent that stupid. The hacker will usually (I assume) try to figure out what system is used to denote valid serial numbers via some sort of reverse-engineering. Since the server is in charge of approving serial numbers and not the local executable, this would be very hard to do. The hacker would need an awful lot of serial numbers to work with. So this part of the system is pretty secure. However, its still pointless, since it will be easy enough to disable the mothership call - no different than disabling a DVD check.
6. You do not need to have the DVD in the drive to play. This is what they are using to sell the scheme to users as one of the benefits of the new system."
What they don't realize is that if something has potential people will buy it. However if they create such a piracy system, they will lose more money then they will save from piracy.
Alot of people have many PCs and would like to upgrade them. Some of us would like to show the game to their friends. But, the three installation thing kicks many people in the teeth.
By singing this petition you agree to boycott spore until the new anti-piracy system has been improved or dismissed.
46 Signatures
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Maketzi
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Tom
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- This new antipiracy system is a fail!It should be banned from all games that are upcoming.
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Herman
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- No :p
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l,m
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Dmitri
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grayson jitmetta
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- when this news reaches many other spore fan's they will all stop buying it. Stupid EA
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Matthew
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- DRM will only encourage piracy. If we pay for a game, it should be ours, out updaand we should not have to worry abtes/installations or hassling calls under the threat of the game not running. A lack of change, and EA will have lost one more customer.
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David O'Neil
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- dr.mon_@hotmail.com
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Jason Bartlett
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- Absurd to do. Won't be buying it for sure now.
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chris haslag
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John Craven
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Karolis
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Nick Smit
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- I do support Anti-Piracy, but it should not limit the users to a number of installs, or needing internet. This means we can't play if we reinstall once too much, and we can't play if we're out of internet for 10 days. I think the system used in Company of Heroes is the best (as user and in Anti-Piracy) that I've encountered so far.
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Flagtap
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- THIS IS MADNESS! :(
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Alen
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- I *UCKING HATE YOU FOR THIS EA!!!!! YOU HAVE DESTROYED MAXIS REPUTION WITH THIS RUBBISH!!!!!
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Donny Brown
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Jacqueline Byrnes
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- No.
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sam terry
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- this DRM stuff is crap and should be removed
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Nadav Ben Dov
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Morita Kazuma
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- Seriously, that Anti-Piracy is epic fail. Period.
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Daniel(Imepime)
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Antony
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Haven Waters
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Ian Quick
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Chris
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Sweety Cocks Fun Time
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- I didn't get the memo from May 9th
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Sean Goodman
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- if ea doesnt remove this i will not buy the game.
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Alexander
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- Don't do it!
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Kasper
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- :'(
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Paul Tinsley
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- The CEO of EA wants us to rent games in the future and "pay-to-play". This means that games will be bare bones when released and you will have to buy components that make it a complete game. Limited activations are a smokescreen for a DRM system that can police your computer and force you into a rental framework. Read the interview with EA's CEO here: http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/21/e3-perspective-an-interview-with-john-riccitiello-ceo-of-electronic-arts/
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Jeremy
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- Camon guys this is dumb
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Ryan DowlingSoka
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- Piracy is wrong, but overprotective systems turn me off. Systems that transfer data back to a server are potential security holes and instead of protecting the user it is a huge security risk.
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Sebastian N. Behrndtz
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Sebastien tremblay
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- Seriously.....dont halt the public because of some pirates your already billionaires
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Matthew Hays
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- DRM and SecuRom isn't going to stop pirates (the game is already up for download, and the game hasn't even reached the U.S. yet!). Its only preventing the legitimate buyers. For those that reformat their computer often, "Oops, looks like I can't install the game back on my computer." Yeah well he could call you up EA and explain his situation, but if I know you EA well enough, you won't answer him. Looks like he's off to download a pirated Spore copy! EA, you brought this upon yourself. Just put a CD key with the game like the good ol' days of PC gaming, and maybe you won't be losing sales due to SecuRom and DRM!
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Chris Parsons
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- Looking forward to buying this game. Will not purchase the game until EA removes ignorant anti-piracy system.
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Hi
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- SPORE SUCKS
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George Laganas
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Jones
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- EA Sucks
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J-P le Breton
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mitchael
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Benjamin
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Nick Bratt
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- not going to buy spore until they fix this.... sims 3 either if it has the same thing...
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Jose
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- Absurd. I do not authorize internet calls in my computer. That in my opinion should be illigal. Also one shouldnt have the need to buy a 10 pack of Spore games because he may need to format his computer 30 times in the future, no should have to manage his system depending on a stupid game. A note to all game publishers: a person that pirates games to play free of charge will always find a way of doing so, while a person used to pay for his game will keep doing it. The game only needs a minor protection to ensure not any moron trying to be a hacker can do simple disc copys. Anyone willing to go further than that will always find a way of having it free, and they will always find it, thats just the way computing works.
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