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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 - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 16:45
Holyetheline
no shit? huh
Blackhat's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 17:18
Blackhat
Is anyone surprised an EA game is buggy on release? Come on...
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 18:10
Kyousuke Nanbu
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 - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 18:17
Stetsonblade
And by Tuesday, you do mean Sunday, right?
Static Jak's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 19:27
Static Jak
Up and running finally.
RJG's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 22:21
RJG
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 - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 23:53
Cube
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.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/06/2008 00:01
Cube
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 - Comment posted on 09/06/2008 09:50
Nyteshade
@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.
guzide's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2009 10:53
guzide
@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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