Also, nice reference!

Yay, Longpost is Looooooooooooooong. Wall of text warning.
1. Just because it’s been done before doesn’t make it right.
2. Spore isn’t available on Direct2Drive, which is a crappy service anyway compared to Steam who’s only validation protocal is occassionally verifying the copy online.

http://www.direct2drive.com/4/6181/product/Buy-SPORE-Download
Wow you dont research much on what you speak of do you?
And the difference between STEAM and a individual copy of a game, is EA and alot of other companies don’t want to pay royalties to STEAM simply to use its client. And you have to install that POS steam client in order to install the games. I hate steam, it doesn’t do anything worthy other then allow me to download my games how ever many times I want, and its not secure. I still let my friend log into my steam account and download HL2 and play and that was it.

Oh well, Direct2Drive is terrible as well. And yeah, I don’t like steam’s version of DRM either, hence why the only steam games I own are Valve’s

The DRM they use now is pointless. If you want a secure method to keep things from being pirated, you keep off the client side rubbish and you go for “online license” instead, like Steam. It just needs to have the game installation tied to the user account instead of relying on making sure a Genuine (R) CD is in the drive.

For what it’s worth, Spore doesn’t require a CD in the drive to play.