This is the latest on spore nig.

Despite some hand-wringing by fans, EA today announced that their hugely anticipated Will Wright game Spore will not make use of SecuROM’s 10-day periodic re-authetication and instead use a modified version to require online authentication.

The announcement comes on the heels of news that Mass Effect will also be ditching the ten day re-authentication.

“We wanted to let you know that we’ve been hearing your concerns about the online authentication mentioned earlier this week. I didn’t want to head into the weekend without getting back to you with some information about how Spore is planning on using this new system.

We do hope that players will play online - sharing creatures, buildings and vehicles with other players is something that is unique to Spore and one of the coolest features of the game. Every day, when I play the Creature Stage, I get to see wacky and awesome new creatures from my Buddies on the team coming over the hill at me and I can’t wait to see what happens when our creative, passionate community starts sharing their creations.

Happy? Woot!

So complaining about having to have online capabilities to install and play an online game…well that’s just fucking ridiculous. Though I’m not entirely sure about the “only online” aspect of it, or if there will also be a single player version…but then again…how is your universe populated w/ out other players? Randomly by the computer? That seems to undermine and defeat the premise of the entire game.

FYI - every game I play now, requires me to be online…to install, update, and play it. Also games like counter-strike and TF2, or any other steam games, are always getting cd keys checked…this has yet to pose any problems for me. If anything it will help track who has bought the game, who is stil playing the game, and how many people pirate the game for future changes and ideas.

People getting mad at a company trying not to get their software stolen…is the second most absurd thing i’ve ever heard of, right below having to be online to play an online game.

Lets look at the logic…

Person A steals from Company B
Person A shares to world how easy it is to steal from Company B
Company B impletements new ideas and software to thwart stealing
Person A gets mad…

Person A needs to shut the fuck up, becasue he is STEALING STUFF.

Don’t get me wrong, I love pirates and I may or may not pirate 95% of all my music, movies, and software…but it doesn’t mean im allowed to get mad when someone tries to stop me.

In repsonse to the argument/issue of , “People will figure out other ways to pirate the games — that’s almost guaranteed. So, in the end, all this will really do is piss off the legitimate customers who paid for something that suddenly doesn’t work, though no fault of their own.”

If pirates didn’t pirate…then they wouldn’t have to impletent these security measures, so arn’t pirate the initial causality for these “normal people” getting fucked…if not…then we can also throw the above arguement away also.

I don’t even understand this part of the argument, “legitimate customers who paid for something that suddenly doesn’t work, though no fault of their own”

Something that suddenly doesn’t work, though no fault of their own? What does that even mean…what would SUDDENLY stop working? Your internet? Ok get your internet fixed…other than that, I don’t know what this last sentence really means.

“suddenly doesn’t work” implies that something unknown/unpredicted happened to stop the game from working…in these 3 paragraphs they already told us what would make the game work and wouldn’t make it work…so if a game stops working..umm…USER ERROR?

THEY DONT WANT TO LOSE MONEY…the end. You can’t blame someone for not trying to lose money. They may or may not being going at this the right way.

The only REAL problem I see with what they are doing is making the game installable 3 times. Which is retarded. You might as well say, “Your computer is only allowed to break 3 times, then you need to re-buy your software”

Then again, you can most likely install the game to an EXT HD and just move the folders to your internal.

Basically, this isn’t final, things can change….the game is NOT out yet…and when it does come out it can still change through patches and fixes.

Everyone should C A L M D O W N and let a compnay spend its money and resources the way it wants to. If they fail miserably, someone else will roll with the same idea and make a better game.

btw. mostly i came to comment to see if you had heard about how fracken crippling spore on the pc is going to be.. you have to be connected to the internet to install, and then it rechecks your key every five days, so if your not online, your copy shuts down.. such bull shit..

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080507/1353061058.shtml

The woman is to be a “Medic” class from TF2, they heal other classes, and healing a heavy weapons guy in TF2 is your ideal 1+1 setup.

The Dude in the mask is a Spy. Spys can take on the form and names of other classes/teams in game.

So…this is how it goes down in game.

Blue Spy mimics Red Medic, Heavy Weapons Guy presses “E” to call for a Medic, then the “Medic”(blue spy) runs over and then backstabs/kills the Heavy Weapons Guy who thought he was going to get healed.

Fin.