5 still isn't enough.  Nto to mention what happens if they take the activation servers down in 5 years?

Actually, the most likely scenario in that case is they would release a patch to remove the activation limit.  That's what some other companies have done in the past.  So... do you feel lucky?

Looks like it's doing a better job than that. It's stopping first hand sales

Over 1K one-star reviews, that really bad. I guess they can be lucky that you can't give zero-star or negative-star reviews.

*dreammodeon* Well, maybe they begin to think about the way they are following right now and will change it. *dreammodeoff*

Seriously, I have nothing against activations, but I have something against forced online-connection and limited activations. it was already bad on steam and it will be bad on anything else.

Back to the CPs

• They have only one goal: upset the cumstomer as much as you can so that he/she/it (some people think they aren't human) won't buy an further games/products
• Pirates don't have problems with that, because th CP was removed

I also love these CPs that tell you "Pleas, insert the original CD/DVD", while it is inside of your CD/DVD-Drive and you just play an hour ago that game. When you start the game a second time is runs normal. SO, again the CP is pissing of someone who bought the game ...

Even Steam is better than SecuROM in that sense, if I remember correctly. Steam doesn't require constant checking: Once you activate and install the game, you can place it in offline mode and it'll be happy as long as you want it to be. But with SecuROM and other DRMs, they'll start whining if you have no internet connection.

Sorry for going a little OT here. I believe the offline mode was not working properly for a while, but it works now. You can also right-click the game in your my games list and go to properties to change whether to keep the game up to date or not. I was originally a Steam resistor, only using it to fill my Team Fortress addiction. I have since found a lot of useful features(voice chat replaces long distance phone calls for example) with it. That and they run some great deals sometimes that hard for me to pass up . I now have about 30 games through Steam and not had a problem with but one, and that was the game and not Steam's fault. A trip to the developers forums fixed it up in short order.

Things like Securom on the other hand provide no service to the customer like Impulse and Steam do and therefore will be cracked/removed at first opportunity if I accidently get a game with it unknowingly.

i know that im not purchasing Spore/RA3/or any other EA game; actually outside of Civ IV, I havent bought any game other than Stardock titles for the past two years; I don't personally pirate games, but hell if i can't say that I don't agree with people.  My computer crashed twice last week, and while my important files were backed-up, I was glad to know that even though I lost all my saves for my SD games, I could just hop on Impulse and have em right back within about 5 minutes.  No wonder how SD keeps getting me to buy new products, I don't get treated like crap by them.