EA and other publishers (but mostly EA) have been under fire lately due to more and more incorporation of DRM software with their game titles. Spore was the latest and most public of the game titles with DRM (in this case the SecureROM DRM).
EA’s response has been, of course, indifferent. Outside of adjusting the limits for installation, they’ve been pretty confident that they made the right choice.
Now, Spore broke a new record. Not a sales record but a pirate record. It’s the most pirated game of 2008! Awesome! So, all that trouble that they went through, all the bad PR, all the bugs, and all the customers they lost was worth it! I can’t wait to see the Game of the Year edition come out with “Most Pirated Game of 2008″ on the cover!
SecureROM…you’re our hero. If it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have made so much money off pirated games…oh…wait…we don’t make anything off those. Damn.
