Quote: "@Bizar Guy - Bioshock's protection was completely removed with a patch. There was never a '3 install' system put in place for that."
That's good. Solves a couple of my problems right there.
Quote: "Spore, on the other hand, gives you back an install when you uninstall it. Lame, I know, but you technically have more than 3 installs like any other game. The stupid thing is if you upgrade your computer it will recognize it as a different computer and you'll have to call in to allow it to install again."
If that's how it it works then I'm not quite as worried. It'd be a choir to uninstall and reinstall with every new upgrade, but at least it will work more than 3 times.
Quote: "or saviours of PC gaming in my opinion "
I'm sorry, but you DO realize that pirates are the reason that these annoying protections are in place?? How are they saving PC gaming? By making developers and publishers see no benefit to a platform where much of their profit is lost to piracy?? While I wouldn't strike someone down for pirating games (at least the people I know, they usually do it to get games that are old enough that they're hard to find, or for games they once had), I will for someone who would say pirating is saving computer games, or would rather torrent a game than buy it. I never have to torrent games because the ones I'm sure I want I buy, or try from a friend first. Sometimes I rent it, and am saved a lot of trouble.
Edit: About the part of being able to play games you buy, I can understand that though. It is kind of ironic that the very reason protections are put in place is why people often have to torrent games or cracks for games they already bought. I'm not at all against that, though the major issue with torrenting is that many people will torrent the game instead of buying it. I rather not be able to torrent games at all than have people go out and steal the game.
Seriously, what real justification can you give for torrenting a game you could easily buy, and thus encourage developers t continue making games for the comp? And in Spores case, it seems pointless to torrent, as if you can't connect to the internet YOU LOSE THE WHOLE FILE SHARRING, which is much of the meat and bones of the game. I want to play Spore in a universe full of my friends creations, and the wacky creatures people around the world have made. How boring would that massive galaxy get if all you have is the base stuff that the maxis team was able to make. Even if they made thousands of things, people have made millions.
