{"id":1870,"date":"2008-09-08T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2008-09-08T08:07:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:07:41","slug":"spore-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"Spore: Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/product\/B000FKBCX4\/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?_encoding=UTF8&#038;coliid=&#038;showViewpoints=1&#038;colid=&#038;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending\">158 customer reviews of Spore on Amazon.com<\/a>, 134 are single-star reviews, most of which fault the game for its <a href=\"?p=1651\">DRM<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/play.tm\/wire\/cluster\/2101870\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actiontrip.com\/rei\/comments_news.phtml?id=090508_7\">here<\/a> &#8211; apparently there have been problems with the activation servers.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t fault folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeite.blogspot.com\/\">Strangeite<\/a>, who picked up the game in spite of this idiocy.   There are so few new ideas coming to us these days that it&#8217;s exceedingly difficult to just let something like this pass you by.<\/p>\n<p>While a game with this much hype behind it can&#8217;t really <em>flop<\/em>, it <em>can<\/em> sell less than expected.  But if that happens EA might just conclude that people don&#8217;t want new things and that they should go back to making more cookie-cutter graphics demos.  Or they&#8217;ll just blame pirates.  If the game sells they will either learn that we accept this sort of DRM, and if it doesn&#8217;t they&#8217;ll learn that we fear new ideas. Buy the game or don&#8217;t: There is no way your choice can push EA in a positive direction.  No matter how things go, they are going to take home all the wrong lessons from this.  <\/p>\n<p>I take no joy in any of this.  It&#8217;s such a massive, stupid waste of potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the current 158 customer reviews of Spore on Amazon.com, 134 are single-star reviews, most of which fault the game for its DRM. See also here and here &#8211; apparently there have been problems with the activation servers. I don&#8217;t fault folks like Strangeite, who picked up the game in spite of this idiocy. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,48],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-drm","tag-spore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}