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EA Backpedal on Spore’s DRM Issues

Earlier in the week we reported on the backlash EA has faced since the release of Spore and it’s extremely limiting DRM coding. Now, in response to the overwhelming anger caused by the move (which limited installing the game to only three computers), EA has announced the imminent availability of a patch which is set to increase the number of systems Spore can be registered on.

Wait for the punch-line though: the installation limit is set to receive a massive increase from the measly three computer cap to the huge and generous new allotment of five. Yeah.

Considering how many thousands upon thousands of Spore torrents have been downloaded since release the expansion of EA’s DRM regulation probably isn’t going to make a big difference. Although it is heartening to see that the company is at least aware of the massive mistake they made, they sure aren’t going about the right way to fix it.

We’re guessing that years down the line, Spore will be used as a textbook example of how not to release a major title.