We all remember the embarrassing and annoying episode of the unreachable activating servers for the game Spore when it was released. Electronics Arts has decided to add DRM in this game to prevent its illegal distribution on P2 network. At the end it really annoyed people who purchased the game, as pirates quickly found a way to bypass the protection, making it useless. EA even had to use one of the bypass procedure to help customers to activate their legally purchased copy of the game as its serves were not able to deal with the requests.
To avoid any repetition, EA decided that Sim3, whose release date is expected for June 2009, will not include DRMs. It will only be protected by a serial number. this announcement might promote the sale of the game, as some Spore gamers claimed to have downloaded the pirate version of Spore as it was not possible to play with the legal original one.
