It's not clear whether Brown is counting the awareness and participation of Spore's detractors in his assessment of the Spore user community.īut perhaps any attention is a good thing online. He also said that 'awareness and participation by user community is looking very good.' ' is getting certainly a lot of attention,' Brown said, adding that it was too early to comment on sales. He said that Spore has been getting more Google queries than either of the two major presidential candidates recently.
One of the major complaints about DRM is that it only inconveniences law-abiding customers.ĭuring a Webcast of a Merrill Lynch investor meeting on Wednesday, EA CFO Eric Brown said that to date, the Spore launch had gone well. A week prior to Spore's official release, a 'warez' group cracked the game, removed its copy protection, and made it available over BitTorrent.
EA's effort to control piracy appears to have been defeated before Spore launched, however.
