Starting next week, Electronics Arts will sell its popular video game Spore free of any digital rights management restrictions.
It's part of a slew of titles which EA will offer on Valve's Steam distribution platform, according to a report by Ars Technica. Besides Spore, the collection will include Warhammer Online, Need for Speed Undercover, Mass Effect, and FIFA Manager 09. Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, and SiN Episodes: Emergence are already available on the service, and there are more on the way.
Prices for the DRM-free versions are said to be on par with what the games would sell for in a box in a retail store.
It's a move likely to win EA some points with gamers after the disastrous public response to its DRM policy for Spore. Originally the company locked the game using DRM software called SecuROM to no more than three machines, which it later upped to five.
This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.com.
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