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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/125526-Darkspore-Gone-Forever-Due-to-Abandoned-DRM-UPDATED

I know I already made a thread about Darkspore, but I figured that anyone who cared had already come and gone there, so if I just made a new post no one would see it, and I think this fix is something equally as important as talking about the problem was.

I guess EA didn't want the extra bad PR from this.
So they have came to their senses.
All this online-crap is annoying.
I guess the amount of "EA abandons Darkspore, pulled from Steam" news articles in one day was too much ;P
Thanks, I'm glad to hear this because I have darkspore in my backlog.
Why is this low rated? o.o
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HypersomniacLive: I guess the amount of "EA abandons Darkspore, pulled from Steam" news articles in one day was too much ;P
I guess the amount articles based on a forum post with no actual research was too much. As I said yesterday, the game was fully playable for me then too. Honestly, sites should pay less attention to forum posts and more to fact checking.
"EA patches out online requirement for Darkspore, singleplayer now DRM free" is the headline I would more want to see. This just delays the inevitable.
Speaking of all this, while the gaming press are quick to pick up anti-EA stories, where is the one asking why Valve are still selling Drug Wars? That game has been broken since the last patch and was abandoned by its devs years ago. Sad thing is, the previous patch actually fixed the game, but as you can't choose patch versions on Steam, the game is now totally broken. But it's okay for Steam to keep selling it, right...
Post edited July 01, 2013 by bansama
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HypersomniacLive: I guess the amount of "EA abandons Darkspore, pulled from Steam" news articles in one day was too much ;P
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bansama: I guess the amount articles based on a forum post with no actual research was too much. As I said yesterday, the game was fully playable for me then too. Honestly, sites should pay less attention to forum posts and more to fact checking.
It wasn't a forum post hidden in a thread, it was an announcement, the thing heading their index page for all to see which no doubt can only be written by an official member of the staff. The game worked for you, and that's great, but they themselves admitted there was a problem.
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DaCostaBR: It wasn't a forum post hidden in a thread, it was an announcement, the thing heading their index page for all to see which no doubt can only be written by an official member of the staff. The game worked for you, and that's great, but they themselves admitted there was a problem.
Most of the articles I saw cited a NGAF forum post as their source. That was the forum post I was referring to.
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DaCostaBR: It wasn't a forum post hidden in a thread, it was an announcement, the thing heading their index page for all to see which no doubt can only be written by an official member of the staff. The game worked for you, and that's great, but they themselves admitted there was a problem.
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bansama: Most of the articles I saw cited a NGAF forum post as their source. That was the forum post I was referring to.
I see, well, this is the current announcement on their boards which says they fixed it, I think this is where the original post saying there would no longer be any fixes was made. If anything, if they're saying they fixed something, that must imply there was something to be fixed.
Post edited July 02, 2013 by DaCostaBR
Yay, it's back, but sadly it's still twice the price here than in America...

Boo-urns!
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bansama: snip
I guess the amount articles based on a forum post with no actual research was too much. As I said yesterday, the game was fully playable for me then too. Honestly, sites should pay less attention to forum posts and more to fact checking.
Yes, fact checking is #1 for journalism., but wether or not the game was playable for you doesn't necessary negate the issues reported by others (I have no personal experience with the game).
Regardless of how accurate the content of these articles is, they are all over the Internet and it seems they managed to do some considerable damage, with their headlines doing most of it, imho.
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HypersomniacLive: but wether or not the game was playable for you doesn't necessary negate the issues reported by others
But it's a pretty good indication that the game wasn't "gone" due to DRM =)

Now here's something more interesting, over the last few weeks 20 odd games have "been removed from Steam" without notice, only to come back a day or two later. This behaviour is likely due to a bug in the store, either the same one, or one related to, the bug that deletes recent news items. So it's also possible that Darkspore was "removed from Steam" as a result of the same bug. We'll never know of course as not one "gaming journalist" actually bothered to fact check.

Still doesn't excuse the fact that Valve can get away with selling broken games* while other publishers wind up with a rabid pack of "game journos" picking at their flesh.

* Another interesting note: The longest wait I had on a support ticket with Valve was 2 years, 1 month, and 15 days. A ticket asking for a refund on a game they sold in a broken state for over a year (the game was so broken you couldn't even save your progress!) I never got a refund. The game was eventually "fixed" by the publisher pulling it from sale and replacing it with an entirely new version. Something they decided they had to do after Valve kept "losing" the patches they kept sending.
Post edited July 02, 2013 by bansama
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StingingVelvet: "EA patches out online requirement for Darkspore, singleplayer now DRM free" is the headline I would more want to see. This just delays the inevitable.
^^this. Quiet everyone down for now, pull the plug later.
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StingingVelvet: "EA patches out online requirement for Darkspore, singleplayer now DRM free" is the headline I would more want to see. This just delays the inevitable.
I'm not so sure it's that easy.

Isn't it like Diablo 3, where the content is generated and stored server side, then transmitted to the game client?