As I am sure you will all remember, Spore was at the center of quite a fiasco last month when gamers, angry at EA's continued use of the invasive DRM tool SecuROM, lashed out on Amazon, absolutely trashing it in reviews and giving it an insultingly low rating. Well, with Crysis Warhead coming out and packing that very same DRM, the chicanery is happening all over again.
So far, Crysis Warhead sits at one-and-a-half stars out of five, with 159 of 206 user reviews giving it a one. The reviews are full of warnings about DRM, one likening SecuROM to a computer virus, as the savvy consumers are doing all they can to warn the general public.
This whole thing is turning into a war of attrition between EA and its customers. While Electronic Arts reassures itself with the fact that only a small percentage of the market knows/cares about DRM, it surely can't be happy with review upon review advertising that which it tries to keep secret. At any rate, the company now knows that this issue isn't going to simply go away.
I, for one, still find this whole situation fascinating. So often do gamers let companies do what they like out of sheer apathy. It's encouraging to see some customers take a continued stand for once.
[Thanks, Wardrox]
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8:43 AM on 10.23.2008
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The other point is that SecuROM has been epicly proven to be useless, remember, Spore was out and cracked a full week before the official release.
Viva Steam!!
Fixed.
A person who may not know a whole lot about Securom and DRM is going to take a look at the review and have second thoughts.
And hopefully they'll buy Left4Dead instead. Steam is still DRM, but won't totally kill your computer like Securom.
Keep it up, anonymous mob!
I'm not touching any game that has a DRM on it, this also hurts the resale of the game which I believe is the #1 thing that they are trying to change. They could care less if you install this on your friends computer, they don't want a loss in purchases from someone waiting to get a used copy.
I won't even get it on steam since SecuROM is still there even on steam.