Yes, I indeed planned on getting Spore as soon as there were some solid reviews out there which recommended it. But although it indeed sounds like an awesome game and I really looked forward to it since the first time I heard of it (two or three years back I think), I refuse to buy it. The reason? The publisher or whoever else in all his glory once again proved that he seems to believe his own customers to be nothing more than a dirty thiefing bunch of money sh*tters who do not deserve to actually get anything at all for their money. Yes, I am talking about DRM1), or more specifically SecuROM which was used to cripple a perfectly good game. Turns out they decided to only allow you to install your own personal copy of Spore (for which you pay something like 50EUR) three times before forcing you to call in and beg for additional installs (and prolly let yourself be questioned why you even dare to need to install it more then three times). I can remember a time when I payed something like 3 EUR for a bloody rental, not 50.
And while we are at it, I'm seriously fed up with having to fast-forward through minutes of “Piracy funds terrorism”2) ads on every DVD I buy3). But then I prolly should be thankful, because I still can watch my DVDs in whatever DVD player in like, whenever, how often I want and even – *gasp* – lend them to my friends.
Anyway, no Spore on my computer, at least not until they patch out that crippling DRM… thankfully, taking a look at the massive amount of 1 star ratings at amazon US I seem not to be the only person feeling screwed.