Posted 10/17/2008 at 01:15:09pm

Riccitiello is totally full of it.  He is doing his best to downplay but it still stinks.  Gamers are people who toy with, upgrade and sometime break their OS on a regular basis resulting in re-imports.  I went through my 3 installs for Mass Effect in a month due to a move and a motherboard upgrade.  It would be a brick now were it not for EA's easy 800 number which is just a "painless", hardy har har, way to increase your licenses.  Personally, I will not stoop to piracy, my plan, though I am not really intersted in Spore either way, is to buy Red Alert 3, get the hack to bypass the activation, register the game with EA with my CD-Key in the notes, see if that ever gets activated EA!!!  Course I will not be able to play online, but I have always played C&C on LAN and rarely online so no real loss there.  Bottom line DRM stinks, there has got to be a better way!!!