Woke up, dragged my butt into work, sat down and remembered... "Hey, doesn't Spore Creature Creator come out today?"
Web browser, Yeah Firefox 3, great looking program.
Website:
http://eastore.ea.com
Result:
I guess a million plus users trying to download a program was a bit much for EA. I think the digital distribution was handled by "Digital River Inc." At least that's the name I see on my receipt, but I guess I'll have to stick with the trial version for now (which is still up at
spore.com). Maybe i'll jump on Pirate Bay and get it from there.
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Update: Apparently the game isn't out yet. I spent an hour, yes 1 HOUR trying to get to my purchase receipt so I could get the game link that unlocks EA Downloader, but EA Store would not take my login. So I suckered it into letting me in by finding the link to the receipt in my browser History.
I got in, and there's no link. Either it's not there yet, or EA sucks, or both. I don't know, but I think we've been waiting long enough for this game, yes?]
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Update: Just got an email with the link, it actually doesn't look like a link, but it starts with ealink:blabblabblab... I pasted it into my address bar and EA Downloader fired up and Spore be downloading. Life resumes.]
@Azrael XJM: Well it's not terrible, the problem is their login portal. I speak from a bit of experience, as I used to work for EA.com before they laid off everyone, now they pretty much have zero Q.C. on their website. Call me bitter (AERTYR, nice picture BTW) but yeah, their website has gone to hell in a hand basket.
I remember testing on that site. EA uses AOL Namespace (not anymore apparently) which was nice if you had an existing AOL or AIM name, you could simply use that at EA.com, but now they switched back to old email logins and I guess each "portal" at EA.com can't remember who you are. I clicked on "Switch Persona's", I have 10 different persona's on my account. like one for Sims, one for Spore, one for UO, one for EA.com, one for EASports.com. It's so Bizzare.
I don't know, I didn't think it looked much different, and I like the address bar auto-fill.