Cannot login to spore

[Shallot]

Even though I have a spore account and my spore game is authentic and it was purchased through steam AND i havent broken any rules, i cannot seem to login to my account.
Whenever I try to login to my account i get a message telling me i do not have the proper spore.com priveleges to use this account's online features. Does anyone know what this means?
I can't rely on the spore.com website because the Customer Support button always ends up with "internet explorer cannot display this page", and the Contact Us button always 404's. The forums button also 404's sometimes but nobody seems to be active on the forums when they do work.

[Eemkeks]

oh my issue is that when i login it unlogs me even if I'm still playing and it is annoying.

[Shallot]

i had that issue at first, then it just stopped letting me log in entirely.

[DrCatfish™]

When i try to launch spore it just goes to a black screen and then i get the windows crash report and i have to close it. Just bought the game and i really wanted to play it but now i cant, really mad.

[Arcyse]

get google chrome and delete that internet explorer

[Rebitaay]

There are quite a few things to do, which I will list in this post. Not all of them work all of the time, but you can give them a try. Also, I am assuming you have Windows 7. If not, you'll have to find these files on your own.

Click your Start button, and search "%appdata%" and hit enter.
Find Spore in the menu, and go in it.
Go to Preferences.
This folder should contain the login.prop file. Right-click and delete this file and then restart Spore.

If you still get this error after deleting the file noted above, then try logging into your spore account this way.
[e-mail]:screen name
(e.g. [e-mail]:Jade_Lotus)

[Shallot]

Both are do not work. i already tried that first method and nothing changed. adding my screen name after my login email only gives me an invalid login error

[Shallot]

both do not work*

[Sarah~Lafayette]

Originally posted by Rebitaay™:

There are quite a few things to do, which I will list in this post. Not all of them work all of the time, but you can give them a try. Also, I am assuming you have Windows 7. If not, you'll have to find these files on your own.

Click your Start button, and search "%appdata%" and hit enter.
Find Spore in the menu, and go in it.
Go to Preferences.
This folder should contain the login.prop file. Right-click and delete this file and then restart Spore.

If you still get this error after deleting the file noted above, then try logging into your spore account this way.
[e-mail]:screen name
(e.g. [e-mail]:Jade_Lotus)

Thanks, I'll try this!

[Grubious]

I DID IT AND IT STILL KEEPS SAYING THAT IT STILL CNNOT CONNECT TO SPORE SERVERS AND I THOUGHT THAT UNINSTALLING IT WOULD WORK AND NOW I CANT HAVE THE SEOND PAGE OF THE LEGS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH

[Yishai]

Originally posted by creaty2000:

I DID IT AND IT STILL KEEPS SAYING THAT IT STILL CNNOT CONNECT TO SPORE SERVERS AND I THOUGHT THAT UNINSTALLING IT WOULD WORK AND NOW I CANT HAVE THE SEOND PAGE OF THE LEGS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH

halp

[ded]

you fellas realize this post is from 2012 right. This is an older issue unrelated to whats going on currently. Just saying

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by Haunter:

you fellas realize this post is from 2012 right. This is an older issue unrelated to whats going on currently. Just saying

Well, to be fair (or devil's advocate, take your pick), there are a LOT of problems in Spore that date all the way back to 2008: random crash in tribal stage, black galaxy screen, invisible creatures.

None of these problems were fixed.

And since Spore pre-dates Origin, its login system isn't compatible with Origin/EA accounts.

Which hasn't been fixed either and often requires manual correction by EA Support.

Because... EA.

[CyanReef]

Originally posted by Haunter:

you fellas realize this post is from 2012 right. This is an older issue unrelated to whats going on currently. Just saying

Well if its from that long ago, why is the problem still there and worse?