Spore: Is it worth it?

Spore is a new, highly anticipated game with a very strict anti-piracy regulation. You buy the CD for $50, and you can install it 3 times. After that, the CD is useless. I know a lot of girls read my site who know nothing about games, so here is an analogy - Say you buy a dildo. You use it three times, and it self-destructs. That's how stupid it is. Tampons - I could understand buying one and only using it three times. But a dildo?

I hate being trendy, but I can't help being pissed off about this load of garbage. Spore's effort to prevent piracy is pointless and stupid.

EA Games doesn't know shit. There are two types of gamers - paying customers, and pirates. No matter what kind of security measures a company puts on softwares, the pirates will pirate, and the paying customers will pay. There really is very little swing to this. There may be a few iffy people who go, "Meh, it's unhackable and I really want to play. I'll buy it. " But very, very, rarely. And, it doesn't even matter now because Spore is cracked anyway. Pirates win.

Nice try, EA. You fucked yourself out of thousands of paying customers in an attempt to give pirates reason to convert to paying customers.

News flash: Pirates don't convert. They are stubborn and ruthless. Hence the term "pirate. " They steal games. If they can't steal a game, they steal it from a friend. If they can't steal it from a friend, they steal a different game. Half the fun of playing a game is stealing it. They will not transform into Buy Hard consumers overnight. Pirates are used to playing games for free. Humans evolved to become accustomed to certain tendencies. You should know this, but after playing Spore, I clearly see you have little concept of evolution.

I'm not buying Spore, and I encourage everyone who reads this not to buy Spore. If you want an adventure in creating life, bang a girl without a condom. At least you can fuck a woman more than 3 times without her dying.

Last updated September 11th, 2008