Most of the fanboys always buy something at the start... Spore has few drm fanboys.

I'll take that bet and wager 250k to 300k for world wide sales. The bulk of those being stores methinks. The real question will be can the stores return unused titles to EA or not.

On a side note this situation makes the review industry look like it is a paid mouth piece for publishers like EA. It is funny to see review scores in the 8 & 9+ range and user scores in the 2 & 3 range or lower. At present destructoid.com is about the only major review site looking like it really reflects gamers views and not publisher views. Food for thought...

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

Yeah, I'll honestly be suprised if it sells less then a million copies.

Most buyers of such a game don't care about it's DRM. Not because it doesn't inconvience them, but because they're either ignorant about it or don't know the alternatives.

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

It'll sell a fair amount, sadly probably more and faster than Sins has.  This is mainly because most average users don't know about the DRM(that is changing a little with increased gamer vocality).

I have spoken to some who have bought the game, and they did not know about the DRM, and the people working at the stores they purchased it at did not tell them about it.

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... 

Raven Shield was also the last R6 game that felt like an R6 game I have fond memories of it.

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.

I concur.  I suspect that most people who purchase Spore are unfortunately ignorant of DRM software in general, much less that it's included in the game.  Which of course is exactly on what EA's counting on. 

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

No question now.  Spore is in freefall.

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.

Yeah whatever.  Seen the latest pirated numbers?

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.

Just to clarify, this was the most anticipated pc game for the past few years, now being outsold by... the wii wheel.  It doesn't matter what the developer anticipated, it matters what the consumers say and do.  Try understanding that and being less of an idiot.

(I'm very sorry, I can't edit for some reason)

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

Amazon is not the entire retail industry.  Amazon is massive, yes, but it is a single store.  The Amazon reviews that give Spore a one star rating and send doom and gloom signals to the potential buyers do not exist at retail outlets.  Some of the retail outlets sold out the first day.

Think first, type later.  Factual information is nice, spouting nonsense because you're intentionally blind to reality is not.

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?

As usual though, I expect idiots like you to go cry to mods, because that's what people do who start something with others.

This was a speculation thread, then you start acting like your word is factual IN A SPECULATION THREAD.

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

Being at #9 means it's not selling much.  But i'm sure it'll hit 500k-1mil in a year.

Most people who buy Spore are the people that buy the sims.. they don't know what DRM is.

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.

Note, copyright infringement is civil, not criminal.  You have to engage in actual piracy before you become a criminal for copyright infringement.

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.

No, it makes it hilarious when the piraters get a better game than the paying customers, and it shows how useless DRM is.