It took no less a media outlet than the Wall Street Journal to break this story. After being slammed by irate gamers for days, the WSJ.com site has learned that Electronic Arts will indeed expand the amount of activations for their alien evolution game Spore. Previously locked at three, the number will be expanded to five activations, according to EA Games president Frank Gibeau.

The article states that Gibeau feels the DRM set-up for Spore was misunderstood by a number of their customers but that they have decided to move to make Spore more to their liking. Gibeau stated, "We're willing to evolve our policy to accommodate our consumers. Without the ability to protect our work from piracy, developers across the entire game industry will eventually stop investing time and money in PC titles." In addition to expanding the activation numbers, EA will reportedly make deactivating a copy of the game and moving it to a new PC easier without having to call customer support. There's no word on when all of this will happen for Spore players.