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Europeans locked out of Spore, EA working on a patch photo

Europeans may have initially got excited when it was announced that Spore would hit their side of the pond first. Now, on release day, all might not seem so great. According to Eurogamer, some Spore users are having issues logging in to the online portion of the game.

After putting in the appropriate login information, the game is tossing up a prompt that says the user has an invalid validation code. Users don’t have codes, nor were they every asked to input one in the first place.

Electronic Arts is aware of the problem and have issued a response on their official forums. The spokesperson said that, “We are aware that many of you are having login problems with Spore. This is being investigated so please bear with us!” When asked if the investigation and subsequent fix would take hours, days, or years, the EA advocate replied that EA doesn’t “have a time frame at the moment."

Spore will be out and unplayable this Tuesday in the US.


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Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 09/05/2008 16:45
no shit? huh
Blackhat's Avatar
Blackhat at 09/05/2008 17:18
Is anyone surprised an EA game is buggy on release? Come on...
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 09/05/2008 18:10
Gotta love PC gaming.

"Here's this awesome new release dude"
"I can't play it, it crashes a lot and its buggy"
"Wait for the patch dude"

And people still cite PC gaming as superior? I mean really?
Laughable.
Stetsonblade's Avatar
Stetsonblade at 09/05/2008 18:17
And by Tuesday, you do mean Sunday, right?
Static Jak's Avatar
Static Jak at 09/05/2008 19:27
Up and running finally.
RJG's Avatar
RJG at 09/05/2008 22:21
Oh look, the pirates are playing for free right now with an illegally downloaded and cracked working game.

Something isn't right here.
Cube's Avatar
Cube at 09/05/2008 23:53
Ha ha and console games are not doing that?

Look we got all thse game that are busted!
patch next week.

Hell with the ps3 the entire OS is broken, wait for the updates and then it will be finshedm we will have trophys and in game XMB next year!,



We are sorry Big games like ninja gaiden 2 locks up on our xbox 360 it only too like 2 months to fix that.'''


Oh and most of those xbox live arcade games ignore the ones like castle crashers that are busted.

and all those other busted crap, on consoles that need patching.

Ya console boys all your games work every damn time out of the box.



Oh and no eruope people allowed is like the best bug ever, I wish every game did that.
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Cube at 09/06/2008 00:01
I bow down to console boys and there superior non buggy games that never need patching and ignore all the bajallion times they patch games like 3 secounds after they come out.

Oh man I am in AWE at the rock solid working games they have given every one worked, well except for the broken ones.

and i mean damn after like 12 updates they got all consoles to work on the OS level kinda correctly, hell yes they are the masters! at least the stopped locking up, well except for firmware updates that turned them into a brick that is just a minior thing after all!



Ill just pretend I never see all the broken crap and game updates on consoles and firmware updating bricking and all the crashing games with bugs.
Nyteshade's Avatar
Nyteshade at 09/06/2008 09:50
@Cube - Beat me to it... Kyousuke Nanbu get a clue and realize that it's developers overusing the ability to "beta test" on the release day, and that isn't platform specific.
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guzide at 04/02/2009 10:53
@Cube - Beat me to it... Kyousuke Nanbu get a clue and realize that it's developers overusing the ability to "beta test" on the release day, and that isn't platform specific. http://www.burun-estetigi.info
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