Irony
December 5th, 2008
According to this article, the most pirated game of 2008 is Spore.
Spore was subject to a lot of controversy and negative reviews around its release because of its overly aggressive DRM.
Not content to deal with such harsh restrictions, the hacking community lashed out and absolutely abused the game with pirated downloads. I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that the high rate was less due to the game’s quality and more a protest against EA’s DRM attempts.
I don’t condone piracy, but I do think these sorts of DRM schemes do more to hurt the honest customers than the hackers. It didn’t take long to find a way around it; meanwhile, people who bought the game and have multiple machines are left having to deal with the difficulty of getting it installed.
