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ranked #106,159 most helpful out of 571,544,897 reviews
★☆☆☆☆
Only 1 login per purchase. No hope for families...
My wife and I bought 2 copies of Spore for our computers. We have 2 kids and planned on letting one play on her computer with her copy and the other playing on my computer with my copy. However the game only allows for 1 login per install. So if I let one of my kids play on my copy they use the same universe and can basically destroy anything I've setup. There appears to be no way to allow a second login to work (which is contrary to other EA games like Sims 2). We're trying to figure out the best way to do this and will probably give our kids other planets to stay on or something. But this issue has definitely limited our experience. My guess is that this is part of the whole overly protective attitude they've seem to have taken which is why I'm rating this 1 star. I could care less about DRM and understand the need for it. But at least allow multiple users to play with different logins on the same machine without risking other player's content. That type of feature has been around for nearly a decade now. It just doesn't make sense that EA did this. Somebody there just isn't thinking about the customer scenarios. If they fix this to allow multiple logins (even at a small sum) I'll probably up the rating. A single user won't feel this pain but any family/couple is going to find that this sucks. I now have to be home here to login with my EA account so my kid can play instead of just providing him with his own account.
September 2008 · Video Games
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Spore - PC/Mac
4.2★ · 3,501 ratings, as of 2023
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