bet most of those people did not know about the drm till they brought the game and you cant return a open pc game they dont let you. so those sales are bull in my view.

Thanks Zaruka

While I can understand the point of view Zaruka has if the end users were even remotely disturbed by it, the whole DRM buisiness may turn transparent to most end-users to the point where they don't are. What I really hope is that EA understands that one download does not equal one lost sale.

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My one question is how many of thoes people took the game back to the store or bought a second because EA said they could only have one account per game.

I also agree with Joran that the game list is not very impressive and i wonder how it would do aginst a game like...say oblivion.

Who the heck was dmb enough to be the Spore Creature Creator the week Spore came out.

The word of the day is.... omission.

Re run the poll, first explaining to each person exactly what this particular SecuROM DRM does (rootkit), and the problems that can arise from using it, and that EA might not keep the DRM certificate server up forever, and not a single person will want this on their PC.

Of course Spore is going to be the top seller.  Any game hyped as much as Spore is going to make lots of money.  There was never any doubt that it would be the top-selling game in the first few weeks after launch, especially since there was literally nothing else on the PC gaming radar when it launched.  But even though it's the top-selling game, there's no way it's doing as well as it could have done had it shipped without SecuROM.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is turning a Nelsonian blind eye towards the many thousands of people who have decided to boycott the game or to download it from a torrent site.

Oh my! A highly anticipated game that's been literally hyped for years and appeals to an insanely broad demographic does well on the sales charts?!

In other news the sky is blue and the ocean is, according to the nation's top scientists, "pretty wet"...

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it also awarded the most pirated game over a 7 day period prize? And of those sales made how many are now angereed customers that won't be fooled twice? If EA announces that this is evidence their anti-piracy measures are working... *shakes fist*....

NUMBERS! Where are they?

Seriously, NPD means shit unless numbers are shown. 2 Sims Expansions, 3 WoW products, 1 WC3 product from 4-6 YEARS ago, and Crysis, what's considered to be one of the lowest selling highly hyped PC games ever. Spore was PIRATED in the first week more that Crysis was sold total.

Let's see how the numbers ACTUALLY stack up against real games. Or how about show how it's comparing to current console game sales. It took spore an entire MONTH to get 1 million sales. The horrible game that is The Force Unleashed got 1.5 million sales in 5 DAYS.

Also, while games like WoW and the Sims expansions will continue to sell for month, if not years. I'm willing to bet that the large majority of spore sales have already happened.