After news of Spore breaking the street date in Australia, we hear that Spore has already been cracked by a group called “RELOADED” despite it’s use of SecuROM, the anti-pirating software. (the same one used in BioShock) There are currently over 10,000 people downloading the game on just one public torrent tracker. All this 4 days before the game even comes out in North America.
If you want to download Spore legally, Direct2Drive is allowing pre-orders of the game.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
It’s EA’s own fault really…. you have to undestand the logic of most hackers and pirates.
All you do by putting in ridiculous measures to “pirate proof” your game is encourage hackers by offering them a challenge.
Good games without all the silly DRM crap continue to far exceed their ROI so when you take that extra step you’re just throwing down the gauntlet and wasting your money. Add on top that the “security” method you use hurts your customers more than it helps you, you’re already reviled for horrible customer service, and you regularly abandon otherwise successful launched titles… then you’re just throwing oil on the fire.
There are better ways to conduct business but as long as EA knows most customers are sheep they’ll keep going.
I don’t see why they didn’t just release this for 360 and PS3 instead…
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What? Reply:
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Yeah, it’s EA’s fault for trying to protect their software. I hate the Internet sometimes.
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You read that right Reply:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I wonder how many of those pirates wanted to buy the game legit but didn’t because they didn’t want the DRM?
If EA loses money on this, it’ll be their own damn fault. It’s ironic, but draconian software protection is bad for business. There’s a metaphor for this: “biting the hand that feeds you.”
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Chris Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 am
No, when you think about the psychology of most hackers, then it makes perfect sense. They obviously didn’t do this because the wanted to sell copies of the game, since they aren’t making any money off of it. They did it more to make what you could call a political statement about DRM. If EA had used a less restrictive form of software protection, then there would probably have been quite a few less people willing to take the time and effort to crack it.
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Adam Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Um, ignore the retard. You’re actually absolutely right and that’s a very smart thing to say. It’s like windows Vista, they put a team together of a large amount of hackers and just sat there hacking it until they finally cracked it. it’s a challenge for them and it’s what they spend all their time doing.
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Shawn Reply:
September 5th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Ok I pirate every now and then but protecting your ideas isn’t wrong. It is wrong for people to take them. Yes I think that many of the things we buy are over priced but some one still needed to think up Spore, and what about all of those endless hours it took to make it? That’s what you paying for. You are paying for the imagination that it took to dream it up and the work ethic it took to make it. If you ever create a work of art (tad bit of a exaggeration) your not going to give it away, not if you took your time in making it as good as possible.
IT IS NOT WRONG TO PROTECT YOUR IDEAS!
It is wrong to take them away from people.
P.S. I only pirate things that I pay for later. I just don’t want to wait to get them.
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Conot Reply:
September 5th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Were not saying its wrong to protect your Ideas, were saying that when EA uses some batshit system like SecuROM, we all feel like we have pirated it. (Take a look at Mass Effect, you could only install it 3 times then BAM! it wouldn’t let you play the game again until you bought another one or demanded a new keycode from EA, now, this protection was easily removed by deleting one file in the Program Files, so the result was Normal players feel harrased and annoyed and the pirates just got the game without the hassle.
John Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Also the bought copy of spore only allows for installation three times, and you may only log on your own copy.
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September 4th, 2008 at 12:34 am
SecuROM has more problems than it solves take empire at war half the retail copys had to have patches where the game for some reason desided that your origininal disk was a copy, SecuROM would send you out a patch that would work for one use only, then they would say that they had already sent you a patch and would not help anymore
i thank the “hackers” and “crackers” for giving me no cd .exe’s as it means i can put my disks away where they wont get damaged
who remembers when you where told to make a copy of your game and run of that so you could keep your original disks safe
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September 4th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Lol good. EA is dumb. Make a multiplayer games only for pc. Dont make single player games for the PC or expect low sales. Duh, people only buy wow and shit cause u need legit serial number for online. Same with war 3 or c&c. I gotta go find this torrent!
LOL
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LINK Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 3:44 am
um actually i can play WOW without any money required.. want to know how? PIRATE SERVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cheap, easy and you don’t have to pay shit. all of you tools out there
saying you cant get WOW or won’t get WOW because it so god-damn expensive, have obviously never heard of google.
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John Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 7:08 am
You’re not playing WoW, if you’re playing it on private servers.
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ZerO Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
AMEN
Leo Reply:
September 8th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I’ve played WoW on pirated servers for a while. And I’ve been playing on official servers for two years now. It’s just not the same game.
Funny thing is that I was going to buys Spore. I’d be the first game I bough after installing WoW two years ago. Just because of this idiotic DRM scheme, I fell treated like a criminal. So I’m going to act like one. I’ll download this game and will seed it.
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Shawn Reply:
September 5th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Okay……. what about half life 2?
Any way Spore is a great idea for a game and will be fine playing alone and making it multilayer would lead to many problems with planets being destroyed races being made extinct. A lot of games are fun when you don’t need to deal with other people’s crap. Yea Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 or the Halo series would suck with out their multilayer aspect but a game like Spore is probably better without multilayer once you think about it.
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Anonymous Reply:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
No such thing as Spore multiplayer, buddy… Do the tiniest bit of research before making a point, k?
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Jim Reply:
September 7th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Spore isn’t multiplayer buddy, that’s his point….Do the tiniest bit of reading before replying to a comment, k?
September 4th, 2008 at 3:50 am
muahahahaha PIRATE 4 LIFE, Thank you Reload..EEEED.
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September 4th, 2008 at 4:28 am
I have this version, got it yesterday, and as a poor college student I now know that the game is worth buying. Otherwise, without this hack/leak, I probably wouldn’t have gotten the game.
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Bill Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 6:09 am
If I were you, I college student who can’t spell, I’d be more worried about my grades than stealing games.
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novice Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 10:54 am
“I college student who can’t spell”
I LOL’ed.
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Your Mum Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Now that is funny. Thick bunch of fucks. I’m still laughing. At the thick student (get a job your lazy bum) and his even thicker mate.
wtfmate Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I am confused, all of these replies are insulting the poster, even though as I can see, he is the only one who has created a proper sentence.
Alfinch Reply:
September 4th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
The original poster spelt ‘Anonymous’ as ‘Anonemous’
ZerO Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Oh my god, Billy, do something with your life and stop giving lectures about how anonymous has to be written, and as of you other literature conoisseurs, give the poster a little credit, he’s making a point, and FUCK(had to say it) I do play AND work.
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September 4th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Well, it would of happened anyways… At least it was only 4 days before release.. i mean it could of been worse lol
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September 4th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Got this about 3-4 days ago. Thought it was old news already? Games not even THAT fun. No way I could imagine myself buying it. But I do have a legit CD key already and am ready to play online on release date.
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September 4th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I’ve seen these Reloaded guys around! They’re pretty popular, I think.
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September 4th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
i think reloaded is a pretty cool guy. he crakcs softwares and doesn’t afraid of anyhting.
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anonymous Reply:
September 5th, 2008 at 12:16 am
can’t even misspell the joke correctly.
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:06 am
I couldn’t get a serial key to work on The Sims Online a few years ago because it said it was in use. I ended up having to call India and wait on hold for 40 minutes only to be told they couldn’t help me. I’m done with EA and any products that potentially lock out their own customers.
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September 5th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I agree with the first poster. Although EA should definitley protect their games, they should not got to te extent of things like SecuROM. They spend more and more money creating this advance security and it only effects crackers and legal users.
The crackers may have to spend a couple more hours finding a work around, but eventually they will get there.
The pirates can then use the cracked version and never have to worry about the security.
The legal users have to go through all the security, often creating massive inconveniences like false positives on piracy checks.
So yeah, EA do need to protect their games but what is the point in using advanced security like this that doesn’t effect the pirates at all and often screws over the legal users. They’re getting to the point where the customers who were willing to pay for the game are going to turn to pirate copies to avoid dealing with over the top security.
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September 5th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I love flame wars! By the way you all suck.
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Jools Reply:
September 5th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
You’re a nazi. Case closed.
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Why isn’t it for sale on Steam yet!?
I love the way Steam supplies the games. You won’t have any problems with the DVDs and other disks because you can download it from the net. It’s safe and sound. Unless you let people hack your account or give away your password. That’s the only risk.
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September 5th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I have that Game I didn’t pay a cent
But you cannot login because you have to Register, and the Serial will not be validated.
You can still Create Creatures, and Save but no Log in…
If anyone can prove me wrong, said it!’
Proof me via: martnog90@gmail.com
If you can…
Thanks!
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September 6th, 2008 at 2:10 am
I’m downloading it right now, because it releases on the 7th in Canada and I’ve been waiting YEARS for this fucking game. The sooner I can get it the better. I’ll still buy it when it comes out, but it pisses me off to know that the game is IN stores they just won’t sell it.
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September 6th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
This game is a very great idea. Securom is such a WASTE.
And That crack sounds like, someone hacked the front door but cannot get into the livingroom. Offline level and Online level separated.
This game has a 2 way serial number of use, what you cannot generate easily to yourself and into EA-s servers too, to let you play. So online galaxy cannot be reached really without it.
There are games with a pre crack security so if cracked it might not build, click, work all features. So the Cracks may damage software hardly!
That SecuROM idea was a WRONG selection of protection. There are MANY better ways! (They didnt see hacked Bioshock versions before? Loud of Laugh…)
Reloaded picklocked many many games before. Most of them is Offline game.
Online verified games can change easily to kick off the tricks.
Like patches, verifications of files, ect..
The 3 install idea makes me angry because its an UN-FEATURE of the game.
If The end is that the 3 install can be kicked off by crack but the game cannot be really played online, then its a crack JUST FOR WHO BUYD it! To remove the un-feature.
Altough there are games what cannot be keygenned/cracked as i seen. (example: Astral Tournament 1.7)
P2P can be stopped.(note: pull the wires out)
Is it the part of the game testing to let it cracked? YYEESS!!
Console editions of this game can have hard controls i think. I mean the controller. Once try to play strategy games with a Joy… Note: keyboard/mouse is not so demanded on consoles.
Have a nice day and THINK ON THE JUNK AROUND YOU!
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September 10th, 2008 at 6:57 am
To be honest piracy is a form of advertisment for game developers, most people that download the games pre-release have every intention of paying after, and those that dont would never have bought the game anyway. Have you never noticed how, when a new game (Half-Life2, Black & White2 and others) comes out a sudden flood of their prequels suddenly appear on torrent sites? Same with films and music. Things like the ludicrous 3-install keycodes and Steam logging requirement just make the true consumers feel like criminals and in turn they actually go to crack/hackers to get the true enjoyment out of the game.
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September 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
You know what it really is their own fault. Even when I make it a point not to pirate things what ends up happening? They have the game in the store a week early, but it gets leaked to torrents. So people who pirate the game are playing it a full week to 5 days before paying customers. When you are consistently getting games delivered to stores a full week early, it’s absolutely stupid to tell them “we forbid you to sell our software to paying customers for 5 more days”…how freaking stupid is that really?
All it doesn’t is tempt me to pirate the game. There are all these stories and campaigns to explain to the paying customer why it’s so important to support the game maker and not pirate the game, but then they piss in your face by just letting it sit there in the store so their mythical “street date” can come to pass. Every damn time this happens lately, it tempts me more and more to modify my 360 which I vowed not to do. Just another stupid thing they do just like the extensive/intrusive copy protection…that horse S#$# isn’t in the cracked version you tards…so you just piss in the face of your paying customers again.
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September 11th, 2008 at 12:02 am
EA has to learn eventually, when customers buy something, they expect to own it.
That means they can keep it and use it HOWEVER THEY WISH, or sell it to someone else if they no longer wish to own it.
They did this measure not to stop pirates, but to stop resale of games.
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September 11th, 2008 at 1:13 am
If you bought the game be sure to download a copy too, because EA’s copy protection scheme with the 3 limited activations, you’re going to need it sooner or later.
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September 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
yo so you cannot play spore and update your galaxy with a pirate version… ppp who cares lol sounds to much like a crack addiction to get into the online mode
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September 20th, 2008 at 2:30 am
So there I am the other day minding my own business when, yup you guessed it, I drove past a police station.
MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!
I mean I felt like a normal citizen but then I said to myself you know what, if they don’t trust us all well enough not to have law enforcement, my impeccable logic states I should now break the law just to make a point.
So I went out and robbed somebody. Dumb assholes, how dare they.
-Spargo
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