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I’ve not yet received my copy of Spore, but though Spore has only just been released in the States as of the 7th, there are already a ton of reviews littering Amazon regarding the DRM method that EA has chosen to use and how angry everyone is about it. Quite a few are letting this alone decide whether they should purchase the game. If you’ve played The Sims or Mass Effect, you are already familiar with the DRM. SecuRom. And yes, it does have a Mac version.

First off, there’s a lot of information, and some would say misinformation, regarding SecuRom and Spore. Some are saying that the DRM will only allow you to do three installs before you have to contact EA regarding more, some say you can’t do more than three installs period…some say you can’t do more than three installs on *one computer*. There are all kinds of claims going around, and EA has really not done a good job of clearing this up, either. The latest info I could find was a Kotaku article in which they said EA had stated that authentication would be used, but modified.

Also, there’s not a lot of information regarding how it will operate on a Mac versus a PC. For example, even though there is a news item from back in 2003 on the SecuRom site stating that they support Mac OSX, if you go to their products page, it says that they only support Windows operating systems. Huh? So, does it or not?

I’ve got an email into EA right now and am awaiting further information. I’ll post an update when I get it and hopefully have something for you for Friday’s show as well.