Originally Posted By: tfabris
Yeah. The funny thing is, the DRM and account restrictions were fine for me.


I wasn't fine with it, and nearly did cancel my preorder. Only Will Wright's name kept me from doing so. The reason is that prior to the changes, your CD key became deactivated for any future installs after installing it 3 times. Work, home, and laptop would blow that for me day one, meaning I'd have to call EA and fight with them to reinstall the game. At some point, they will have a tool to de-authorize a system, and are bumping the number to 5. A step in the right direction, but I'd really prefer the DRM to be pulled completely like it was for Bioshock. EA is already bad about keeping old servers online, so who knows how many years the Spore DRM system will even be kept online. DRM didn't prevent me from firing up Sim City 3000 recently, and I'd hope the same doesn't happen to me for Spore in 10 years.

And then of course there is EA's ability to force you to buy a new copy just for bringing up SecuROM on their forums...