JCalCGM
12-16-2008, 10:08 AM
Big Download has begun it's look back at PC gaming in 2008 with its first annual rose ceremony (http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/12/16/big-downloads-2008-rose-ceremony/). What groups got a rose and which did not? Find out in our first in a series of articles on 2008 in PC gaming.
No Rose To: Spore's DRM set-up
Electronic Arts naturally wanted to keep pirates from stealing all the work done in Will Wright's latest game Spore. Yet the publisher decided to put in a DRM set-up that, while seemingly benign, has become a focal point for the entire debate on using such practices in PC games.
No Rose To: Spore's DRM set-up
Electronic Arts naturally wanted to keep pirates from stealing all the work done in Will Wright's latest game Spore. Yet the publisher decided to put in a DRM set-up that, while seemingly benign, has become a focal point for the entire debate on using such practices in PC games.