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Spore + EA = Fail

Wed Jun 18, 2008, 1:24 PM
I imagine I'm like the majority of you good boys and girls who have been awaiting the release of the full version of Spore's Creature Creature on the 17th of this month, only to have it delayed until 12:00:00 CDT on the 18th. What's another day right?

Well, I'd be willing to answer that question if it wasn't currently 3 hours and 17 minutes past that time and I was playing Spore CC.

To make a long story short, it's 19 minutes after 12:00:00 and the download becomes available. I make my purchase and go to download it and the download button that is supposed to be there isn't. Hmm. A few refreshes later and EA's site crashes. Big surprise. At around 12:30 it came back up so I tried to sign in and look at my order. It tells me that I have no orders. I log out and try signing back in again to see if it was just a glitch. Now it's telling me I have an invalid pass word. I reset my password and sign into my e-mail to retreat the activation link. I sign back in with my new password and I get a system error.

Fun. I purchase another copy of Spore after doing everything previously mentioned one more time. I get the beloved download link at about 1:10. Yay, but what is this? I need to download EA's Download Manager? Okay, fine, I already dumped $20 into this, I'll download your shit program to use this awesome taste test of Spore.

So after about 6 painfully slow downloads, I figured it might be wise to uninstall my old trial edition of the creator. I do that and the 7th download rolls along at a very miserable pace before finally completing. I go through all of the installation procedures and try running the program. What's this? A crash to desk top? Yeah, apparently it installed some necessary crap on my master HD and some other stuff on my slave HD. So after uninstalling it all again I went back to download it an 8th time. I made sure everything went to one drive and tried to play again. Another crash to desktop.

I have no idea what EA is playing at but I'm not officially pissed off. If anyone has a solution I'm make sweet love to you for eternity. Meanwhile, I'll be waiting for EA's slow as fuck customer support to fix the several errors they've made today.

Best of luck to you if you take a stab at downloading this shit.

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~Heckfire:iconHeckfire: Jun 18, 2008, 2:20:40 PM
*looks at his EA Download Manager* ...well, this doesn't bode well, now does it..?

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~AsoniTheFox:iconAsoniTheFox: Jun 18, 2008, 2:34:22 PM
I managed to make some Spores (but I wonder if the site was real...hmmm. Probably not.)

But I've learned one thing since I was old enough to have the strength (actually, that didn't stop me either) to carry a controler or move a mouse = avoid E.A. at all cost.
Lazy and greedy. Bad combo.

It sucks to hear your story, comrade.
I'll try to cheer you up though.
:glomp: :cuddle: :hug:

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~Darfix:iconDarfix: Jun 18, 2008, 8:33:56 PM
Trust me, I always knew EA was a lousy distributor of games, what pains me is that Will Wright would create something this amazing and throw it into EA's hands...

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~Darfix:iconDarfix: Jun 18, 2008, 8:34:16 PM
I assume you are being stricken with some problems as well? =/

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=TikiTavi:iconTikiTavi: Jun 18, 2008, 8:51:22 PM
I should have probably mentioned that I could get SPORE's Creature Creator at Target for $9.99, with a 10% discount since I work there... o.o'

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~Darfix:iconDarfix: Jun 18, 2008, 9:40:55 PM
YOU ARE GOD O_O;;

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~AsoniTheFox:iconAsoniTheFox: Jun 19, 2008, 5:19:35 AM
Yeah. It's sad. So many good companies/ideas/creators thrown into the wrong hands (Dice = Battlefield, is another example).

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~Darfix:iconDarfix: Jun 19, 2008, 5:41:50 AM
The said thing is, in doing all of these things to make their games "less easy to pirate", not only is it a pointless effort because someone somewhere is going to figure it out and probably in record time, but they pretty much tea bag all of their customers, saying, "lol we really do not give a shit if you give us money and cannot use our software."

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~AsoniTheFox:iconAsoniTheFox: Jun 19, 2008, 5:56:59 AM
Yes and another yes on the last part as well.

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