Spore DRM

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So it seems EA decided to raise the number of installs allowed for Spore from 3 to 5.  While one could consider it good that EA is in some capacity listening to customers, it seems pretty clear to me that they're just throwing a bone.

The issue wasn't never seriously that "I want to install the game five times, not three!" The issue was that they'

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SimCity was released as open source because they had an opportunity to have it distributed on the OLPC laptop and releasing it under the GPL was necessary to accomplish that. I think the chance of a company as large as EA open sourcing a game out of the goodness of their hearts is pretty slim. Public companies do not take actions that do not result in increased profits.

Even if they wanted to, it would be next to impossible. Modern games have too many 3rd-party dependencies. You can't open source a game if that game uses a proprietary engine or libraries, so unless you write your own engine from scratch and open source that, it just isn't realistic.

Regardless, it isn't reasonable to spend money assuming that a company will choose to give me additional rights in the future. If I'm going to pay $60 for a game today, I need to own it today.