Hey ive been reading this thread for a good hour or two and i have to say before i came on this thread, my mind was made up i was going to buy Spore,regardless of cost. But now i am in two minds...
Looking at this forum, i have noticed that it is 19 pages of constant ranting and information about spore. It could be reasoned, as someone mentioned prior to this post, that it is a publicity stunt thought up by a
PR Guru at EA. Also the fact that it took 19 pages before a moderator took notice suggest that EA have been waiting for the opportune moment, building up this immense amount of tension, anger and pressure, to make it look so much brighter when they change something for the better.
However, nothing has officially been said about this so these are just possibilities
NOT facts. Do not get me wrong, i am outraged by this Securom scandal and i am so glad that an EA member has decided to try and do something about it, and i too will only buy this game if either:
a) They make
SIGNIFICANT changes to the system (Judging from what i've
seen the afore mentioned "Steam" sounds sooo much better as i
MUST have control over my computer at all times)
b)They Scrap Securom all together for Spore and future titles as this software ,if it falls into the wrong hands, could be used to gain alot of personal information, and judging by Britains history, it probably will happen.
It also seems to me, that people who have seen the infamous spore video featuring the girl who explains the problems with securom, have taken her word as 100% will happen nothing you can do about it. Alas, i believe this is not the case as consistantly throughout there are keywords which suggest its not a definate, sure-fire thing: "Can" ."Could". However, i may have been wrong and slightly judgemental which i definately do not do on purpose and for which case i apologise.
To conclude;
Spore is possibly the greatest game i have ever seen and i have wanted it since i first read about it in about 2005, and if they do remove SECUrom i will probably be the happiest i have ever been
if not... then maybe we should play a game of "auto-mail" with EA: Send them the same message over and over and over again asking them to get rid of it, from 100's of different addresses... see how they like it
as a last resort of course...
Hows that for a first post
EDIT: I have signed the petition as well under 'Finch'