I think you will find it sells far far far more than you think lol. EA knows how to sell crap, literaly.

I suspect it will top out around 800,000 then drop off at its current pricing... once it drops to around $20-25 then they may get over 1 million but slowly...

EA knows how to sell crap to a cow ranch... only us smart ones know that it has DRM all over with any of their games... which is why I refuse to pruchase ANY game from EA... last game of theirs I got was SimCity4 back in 2004

In my opinion UBIsoft is worse.  Personally, I'd rather have some DRM to contend with rather than the buggy shit UBI puts on store shelves.

I can't ever forgive them for what they've done to the R6 franchise.  Having played the R6 games since the very first Rainbow Six, I've seen that franchise ground into the dirt by UBI.  The last "playable" R6 game was Raven Shield, and even that had it's bugs...

DRM over game-breaking bugs anyday!

Now, in a perfect world we could do away with both... 

The main issue with all of this is companies who look only to the next quarter, for the quick buck.

EA isn't looking at how customer outrage will effect them 5 years from now; neither are you guys.

Look at our airline business.  It's suffering mainly because we still use gas guzzling wd-80s.  The airlines didn't think to the future, and now are going out of business.

It's not a question of if, but WHEN this effects EA.  The richest people in the world stay rich because they look ahead 5 years into the future or more.  EA uses tactics that every company that fell from grace uses.

Well lets hope the protest educates some of those namesless msses. Then it would have been worth all the effort.

They were expecting to sell two million by years end.  They likely shot the shit out of your 100k figure the first day.

They have 1.6 million user accounts between the full game and creature creator versions, and the last 48 hours had about 50k additions.  If even a third of their additions are full game buyers, you're going to be off by a factor of ten at least.

Any game that drops to #9 from #1 in it's launch week has no chance in hell of selling 2 million much less 500,000.  If your too stupid too figure that one out, then nothing I can say will do anything else for ya.

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This ring a bell?  Diakatana was anticipated to sell alot too.

Once again whatever.  Their IS NO SALES REPORTED YET DUMBASS, and alot of games can sell out the first week, and stil sell bad.

Why don't you go back to have orgasms with Madden 09 and shut the **** up before sales arrive?

There needs to be an age limit to use the internet, say five?

Lets get something out of the way, if you pirate Spore instead of buying it and use DRM as your excuse, you are a criminal. DRM is not an excuse to commit a crime. It doesn't make you some maverick, standing up to EA, it makes you a pussy stealing someone's hard work. Spore is a great game, DRM is an extremely minor interference of the enjoyment. People need to stop acting like it gives them an excuse to get a $50 game for free. If you hate DRM and pirate games you are your own worst enemy.

While I agree with your sentiment, WBS, that if you pirate the game, you're nothing less than a thief, let us know how 'minor' that interference is when you hit the activation limit due to adding/changing hardware. a reinstall of the OS, installing on a new machine, or anything else that ends up burning an activation on you.