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Spore Install Errors Thwart Spore Day News

By Chris Leyton on 05/09/2008

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Spore registration server is encountering problems leading to unusual number of calls to technical support...

It appears that the day of Spore has been slightly dampened by an issue preventing the game from registering correctly.

After being contacted by numerous readers suggesting problems when installing the game, TVG contacted EA technical report who informed us that the call centre has received an "unusual" number of calls regarding the issue, which centres on registration keys not being activated correctly.

Apparently the registration server is encountering issues and we're informed that EA are currently unaware of when the server will be back up and running.

TVG contacted EA over the response who provided us with the following response:

"We are aware of issues with registering Spore at the moment. We are working diligently on fixing this issue and apologise for any inconvenience caused. It is possible to play offline."

So at least it won't prevent you from enjoying Spore, even if the universe won't be populated by user created creatures.

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	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sun 14th Dec 2008 14:44, Post No: 91 spore is the best online game in the world i raise my hat when i say well done will wright
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Wed 03rd Dec 2008 11:09, Post No: 90 Nah,still the same. Anyways,i bought spore and installed in my PC. Errors include: The registration key cannot be validated. or, the email address or the blah blah blah cannot match.
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sat 22nd Nov 2008 23:59, Post No: 89 3 plus tht was meant to be
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sat 22nd Nov 2008 23:58, Post No: 88 ok...news flash, this is a 3 game...its not meant to be the best game ever...its just meant to be abit of fun, if some can tell me a game were u make ur own creture and advancde it in diffrent stages to make it the the top creature on the planet, tell me, and ill get it=) spore is uniqueand a game tht is meant for an hour or 2 of gameplay, yeh it was a bit of a let down, but tht is what expansion packs are for.
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Thu 06th Nov 2008 04:23, Post No: 87 You got to be kidding me? Spore shines? It's a really bad bunch of mi[#@!?]me rip-offs of many other, much better games.
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Mon 06th Oct 2008 22:19, Post No: 86 I did mind this tbh. It was good until a certain point ten its just boring I wouldnt recommend this personally.
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Wed 24th Sep 2008 15:52, Post No: 85 please enter the entire registration code found either in your confirmation email your game manual\product packaging or game card
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sun 21st Sep 2008 06:54, Post No: 84 This game was a huge let-down, especially in terms of the basic technical aspects of gameplay. And if by "immense," you mean "insanely repetitive and mind-numbing," then I agree with this review. The aspects that make it interesting (terraforming, colonizing, etc) get old VERY fast, and the combat mechanics are idiotic (especially because of the camera angles). Do NOT recommend.
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sat 20th Sep 2008 11:23, Post No: 83 I installed game with no problems. And then I launch game. I got window saying "Please enter the entire Registration Code found either in your confirmation email, your game manual/product packaging, or game card". Thre was no email asking or game card. a white box was there to enter the code.i entered the cod but 5 seconds later I got the same thing.I enterdthe code again but the same thing happens again and again!
	By: Anonymous Coward Added:Sat 20th Sep 2008 11:13, Post No: 82 I installed game. And then I launch game I got window saying "Please enter the entire Registration Code found either in your confirmation email, your game manual/product packaging, or game card". Thre was no email asking or game card. I entered code and get window again saying: "Please carefully re-enter the entire code found in your confirmation email, your game manual/product packaging, or game card". Then I never could register I downloader keygen tried hunders of code for 2 hours still same error.I realy don't know wat to do!