Of course the kids don’t want all their creatures mixed in with everyone else. I have 3 children that would all have a great time in spore, not counting myself and my wife. I have been a happy linux user for 6 months, and ended up installing windows and dual booting specifically for spore. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop after Spore released, and here it is! Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronologyĪre you for real Stephen McLaughlin? Obviously you don’t have children. After graduating college, I bought myself a fancy new computer for Spore even though the release date kept shifting and preordered Spore through Amazon almost a year in advance, only to cancel as the DRM scheme news broke. I grew up playing all the classic Maxis Sim games (SimLife might be my favorite game ever) and have been looking forward to Spore for at least three years. I’m incredibly disgusted with the way EA has handled this. Since in the history of gaming we’ve been able to have multiple users on each computer, I expected Spore to act as a multi-user system. for AutoCAD you buy ‘seats’ on a per-user basis). one license for Microsoft Windows can have multiple users on one computer) or like a seat-based system (i.e. Unfortunately, EA’s implementation disallows individuals on the same computer from having separate accounts.įrom what I’ve read of user responses, the big disagreement is whether a game license should be like an operating system (i.e.
Plenty of families have multiple computers and thus can at least play separate save-games even if only one of them can be the online account. This isn’t exactly the best way to win fans over to the game, is it?
#BACKUP SPORE CREATIONS CODE#
There is one Spore registration/account per game/serial code so you are correct in that you cannot make multiple accounts at this time.
#BACKUP SPORE CREATIONS MANUAL#
That section in the manual was a misprint and will be corrected in future printings of the manual. Users, however, have been complaining that doesn’t seem possible, and while it took a while, an EA rep finally admitted “our bad”: You may have multiple Spore accounts for each installation of the game. Of course, if the game didn’t have DRM that wouldn’t be a problem.Įven worse, the manual for Spore says exactly the opposite: That means that if you live in a multi-person household, and multiple people would like to play the game themselves… EA says you need to pay up for another $50 license. Now, Consumerist alerts us to another, related, issue that is pissing off many of those who did buy the game: you can only have one player account at a time. Things aren’t getting much better for EA since critics of its overly annoying DRM on the new video game Spore expressed their displeasure in droves on the Amazon page for the game. Fri, Sep 12th 2008 08:52am - Mike Masnick
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