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Comment by KevinEldon | Hacker News Reader

The title of the 5-star review Amazon highlighted as the helpful is delightful: "Got me off my video game addiction!"

If there isn't some kind of anti-DRM movement surrounding these review this game might break some kind of record for worst reviews. As of now there are 737 1-star reviews.

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Spore (the last Big Game released by Maxis through EA) is currently holding that record, I believe.

   By September 14, 2008 (ten days after the game's initial Australian release),
   2,016 of 2,216 ratings on Amazon.com gave the game one out of five stars,
   most citing EA's implementation of DRM for the low ratings. [1]

Spore's DRM issues were different, however.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game)#DRM_con...

I actually legitimately hated Spore for its gameplay. So much promise and hype...such poor execution.

Spore was really great in that different people could learn to hate it in completely different ways.

Clearly EA suffered dearly for it, and have made sure never to repeat the mistake. :(

For what it's worth, my son enjoyed the bejesus out of Spore, and even used his own money to get expansions.

There were expansions to spore?

Oh boy...

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