Amazon reviews of Spore DRM
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Weird. amazon.com[^] has almost 1300 one-star negative reviews, all slating the SecuRom DRM. amazon.co.uk[^] contains just one review, a 5-star positive review. Is Amazon blocking negative reviews in the UK?
I haven't noticed anywhere yet, but it must have been posted to an internet community. This looks very remisiscent of something that could be spawned from 4chan, slashdot, digg etc. I wonder how the SecuRom DRM acts on OSX, as I plan to install it on my mac partition rather than vista, as that tends to make my laptop hotter than the sun lol. [edit] It does seem it's coming from a community, my bet is on 4chan, I'd check /b/ but I think it would be more acceptable to access horse pr0nz at work :laugh: [/edit]
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
modified on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 9:52 AM
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I haven't noticed anywhere yet, but it must have been posted to an internet community. This looks very remisiscent of something that could be spawned from 4chan, slashdot, digg etc. I wonder how the SecuRom DRM acts on OSX, as I plan to install it on my mac partition rather than vista, as that tends to make my laptop hotter than the sun lol. [edit] It does seem it's coming from a community, my bet is on 4chan, I'd check /b/ but I think it would be more acceptable to access horse pr0nz at work :laugh: [/edit]
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
modified on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 9:52 AM
Yes, that could explain the 1300 negatives, but the one positive and no negatives on Amazon UK? I don't think so.
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Yes, that could explain the 1300 negatives, but the one positive and no negatives on Amazon UK? I don't think so.
Yea I'm very suspicious, as when I ordered my copy from amazon.co.uk yesterday there was a single 1-star review moaning about the DRM.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Weird. amazon.com[^] has almost 1300 one-star negative reviews, all slating the SecuRom DRM. amazon.co.uk[^] contains just one review, a 5-star positive review. Is Amazon blocking negative reviews in the UK?
From the customer discussions on the UK page it seems Amazon are deleting the negative reviews...
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Paul Watson wrote:
I then proceeded to pull the legs off a caterpillar just to prove I didn't need Spore to create my own creatures.
oh my goodness, I nearly wet myself when I read this !! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Paul Watson wrote:
phoned up Will Wright and told him how disappointed I was in him
If you'd like to post his phone number, I think we should all call him up. I had planned to purchase this. Probably my first PC game purchase in 4 years (flight sim 2004 was the last I think). If your listening Will, now I'm not, you've lost my purchase! Ha, stick that up your DRM pipe and smoke it EA.
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
Probably my first PC game purchase in 4 years
Same here. Well, I bought Orange Box a few months ago but only to have the "definitive" collection. Spore is the first new PC game I've wanted to play in awhile. Sadly I don't think Will Wright is going to be affected by us geeks. Nintendo with the Wii has shown there is a huge casual gaming market and Spore targets it. Very few casual gamers are even going to be aware of the DRM never mind care about it.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Simon Stevens wrote:
Probably my first PC game purchase in 4 years
Same here. Well, I bought Orange Box a few months ago but only to have the "definitive" collection. Spore is the first new PC game I've wanted to play in awhile. Sadly I don't think Will Wright is going to be affected by us geeks. Nintendo with the Wii has shown there is a huge casual gaming market and Spore targets it. Very few casual gamers are even going to be aware of the DRM never mind care about it.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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AT least on a Wii, the game does not soil your OS! In fact, I heard each Wii game has it's own version of the Wii OS/firmware.
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)leppie wrote:
I heard each Wii game has it's own version of the Wii OS/firmware.
Interesting. Should stop Sony game (with rootkit) bombing a Wii box :-D
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Weird. amazon.com[^] has almost 1300 one-star negative reviews, all slating the SecuRom DRM. amazon.co.uk[^] contains just one review, a 5-star positive review. Is Amazon blocking negative reviews in the UK?
There was 1 5 star review with many negative comments a few seconds ago. This single review has now been deleted as of 14:59BST, so that's no reviews of spore on Amazon.co.uk. I now cannot trust the review system since its obviously censored.
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Weird. amazon.com[^] has almost 1300 one-star negative reviews, all slating the SecuRom DRM. amazon.co.uk[^] contains just one review, a 5-star positive review. Is Amazon blocking negative reviews in the UK?
Not only are they extremely critical of Amazon, the reviews of the game are pretty poor. I'm saving my folding green stuff.
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I haven't noticed anywhere yet, but it must have been posted to an internet community. This looks very remisiscent of something that could be spawned from 4chan, slashdot, digg etc. I wonder how the SecuRom DRM acts on OSX, as I plan to install it on my mac partition rather than vista, as that tends to make my laptop hotter than the sun lol. [edit] It does seem it's coming from a community, my bet is on 4chan, I'd check /b/ but I think it would be more acceptable to access horse pr0nz at work :laugh: [/edit]
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
modified on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 9:52 AM
There was an attack on a book on Amazon after the author gave an uninformed interview about the scene from Mass Effect that everyone was up in arms about. People swarmed the site and gave the book a score of 1 without actually reading it and for no other reason than the author's behavior. I suspect this is a similar attack on Spore just because a bunch of people don't like DRM so Amazon is removing all reviews since it would take a much larger force to go through them and remove the reviews from people who have not even played the game but are simply univoting it. Nothing like that ever happens here does it?
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Not only are they extremely critical of Amazon, the reviews of the game are pretty poor. I'm saving my folding green stuff.
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I decided to go somewhere a bit less irrational for a review Ars Review[^] before I decided to buy.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
What's your verdict?
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What's your verdict?
Based on that, I decided to go for it (this is before I knew about the nasty DRM), it should be waiting for me at home now, I thought my gf would enjoy it a lot too as she really enjoys the Sims. Now... I'm wondering whether or not I should return it back to amazon unopened...
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Weird. amazon.com[^] has almost 1300 one-star negative reviews, all slating the SecuRom DRM. amazon.co.uk[^] contains just one review, a 5-star positive review. Is Amazon blocking negative reviews in the UK?
These idiots are just as bad as those that rate a game/movie/etc a 10 months or even years before release. Rate the game not the DRM. That said, while I don't think it lives up to the hype, I am still enjoying it.
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."
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Yea I'm very suspicious, as when I ordered my copy from amazon.co.uk yesterday there was a single 1-star review moaning about the DRM.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
There are positive reviews on there for spore. Just sort by date posted and look for year 2006 lol.
Todd Smith
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Weird. amazon.com[^] has almost 1300 one-star negative reviews, all slating the SecuRom DRM. amazon.co.uk[^] contains just one review, a 5-star positive review. Is Amazon blocking negative reviews in the UK?
A few years ago, Amazon (US) was deleting negative reviews. A very negative review of a non-fiction book I wrote was deleted along with other reviews of the same book that made the same points I had made. In the end, there were only sickening reviews that all looked planted. I'm sure Amazon still does this for select publishers who have enough clout to cause problems.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke