Spore isn’t the only new PC game from Electronic Arts to come with a frustrating DRM scheme. Crysis: Warhead, the follow-up to last year’s Crysis, has a similar five-install limit. We know PC gamers hate DRM, and you’ve certainly not been shy about making your complaints known. As gamers ourselves, we share your outrage. We’re also feeling the pain as reviewers.
We’ve negotiated frustrating Windows DRM in the past, but our PC testing efforts have never been thwarted by an individual gaming title. Our problem is that in order to use an application as a system test, we need to install it on every PC that comes through CNET Labs. As much as we’d like to stay current and adopt a Crysis: Warhead benchmark, we can’t take the chance that on the sixth, twelfth, or eighteenth system some random EA customer service rep will deny our reactivation request.
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