Spore #1 Most Pirated Title
While many were complaining about the rather harsh DRM methods implemented to keep people from pirating Spore, somewhere near two million people were doing just that. According to download data collected from peer-to-peer downloading program BitTorrent, Spore was downloaded over 1,700,000 times this year.
Sadly for Maxis not only do the number of pirated downloads approach the total number of copies sold (over two million), The Sims 2 is second on the list, Unfortunately many surmise that the vast amount of Spore piracy is due to the DRM they instituted on the extremely anticipated game.
While many question the future of PC gaming given the extremely high rates of piracy for these and other games, the continued success of World of Warcraft and other MMOs shows that the future of PC gaming is likely in that genre, given that the constant online access includes whatever DRM measures are necessary.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
I think the DRM methods actually increased the demand for the game. They would have been better off with out it. However, Spore is back in the news, so the media is giving them some push on a marketing level.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Stupid EA!!! Yeah, that DRM worked really nice, eh?
When are you moneymongers going to learn that going to war on your customers NEVER has a happy outcome?
I myself have sworn not to buy another of your games until you bury secuROM and other idiotic DRM’s, because i will not finance a war on myself!!!
So, until EA are able to see the light and find a piece of humility, it’s a pirate’s life for me matey;)
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