The response is just BS, they are still claiming its fighting piracy and everyone knows the pirates remove it so it only affects people who legitimately purchased the game.

What they are fighting is people who buy a game and who are content to play it for years, they are trying to force them to buy another new version of the game.

Why dont they relent and take off the install limitation to make the actual customers who paid money for the game happy? Too much to ask I guess.

Look at Stardock with the excellent Galactic Civilizations and Sins of a Solar Empire I paid money for both of those games and have no fear that I wont be able to play them years from now. Spore could stop working on me and that scares me, and EA tech support is worthless.

I am totally boycotting EA from now on, you got my Spore money EA but thats the last dollar you'll get from this Creature.