Bought Spore on a disc- can I download Galactic adventures?

[Papa Liam]

So I bought Spore on a disc, but I want Galactic adventures. Can I buy Galactic adventures off Steam or off the Origin site, and still be able to play it with Spore?

[KW17]

There is a notice on the store page that tells you, no you cannot.

[Papa Liam]

Originally posted by Grox3000:

There is a notice on the store page that tells you, no you cannot.

Yes I just learned that about 20 minutes ago. But there's no notice on the Origin store page here> https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/74465/pc-download/addon/spore-galactic-adventures-pc-download--ANW.html#details I don't expect you to know but could I buy this and have it work? Or do I have to buy the actual disc?

[BigBoy "!.OutLawZ.!"]

Maybe it's cuz Steam force-patches Spore up to 5.x when installing Steam version and your disk-version ain't patched or wrong version? idk..

But then again, you can reclaim CD key at Origin anytime when you have an account and link that one to Steam account+ download DLC from here?

[Kodachi]

No it just doesn't work that way. I bought spore on disk too, then I got Galacttic adventures and I had to rebuy spore from steam.

[1singur]

You can try to activate your game with Origin then buy GA there to complete it. However GA is not that great. The missions made by players are a bit off, and even those made by Maxix feel unplayable after a while. Oddly, vanilla Spore, without GA missions, feels better to me, even though I play GA everytime. But I try to avoid GA missions. Never went too far with the Space Captain stuff.

[Papa Liam]

Thread is two and a half years old, we good, boys.

[1singur]

Originally posted by A Load of Garbage:

Thread is two and a half years old, we good, boys.

Holy crap! I'm used to thinking that if it's on the first page is a recent thread :))