<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e29d9015-2457-4789-8e1a-783957bf2c47/2E9E3A45-D6A9-435F-A905-239D91826AC8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/" href="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/"><P><IMG alt="Spore Amazon reviews" src="http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/spore_reviews.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/"><P>If you look at the reviews for <EM>Spore</EM> at the major magazines and online gaming websites, you’ll see the game is receiving some very good scores. Its <A href="http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/spore" target="_new" linkindex="87">Metacritic average</A> currently stands at 87/100.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">Amazon’s 5 star rating system currently only reads 1 star from over 800 reviews</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">anger at publisher EA deciding to use SecuROM DRM that limits legitimate copies to just 3 installs before you have to call EA for new activation codes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">DRM is a show stopper. I doubt this game will work for me after a few years given my habit of new hardware purchases</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">$49.99 + DRM is too much to pay when the game is only a rental after the DRM.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">I have no interest in paying full price for a game that I will be severely restricted from being able to play at a later point.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">I’m very disappointed that EA has chosen to treat us all like criminals</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">There are clearly some very angry gamers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geek.com/amazon-customers-award-spore-one-star-for-drm-20080909/">It is also clear the protection doesn’t work as the game was seen days before release in pirated form.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E9E3A45-D6A9-435F-A905-239D91826AC8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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