I hate EA so f***ing much

[Elder Thing]

I'm sure I'm not alone, especially here

[Fei the SCREAMING BEAN!]

something is wrong with sporepedia lately i cant seem to properly log in anymore to check for any new comments

[Нагито Комаэда]

You're not alone
They made a huge mess with destroying Origin and then launching crappy EA App. And the Steam version of Spore is kinda meh. Makes GOG version the only one reliable to play.

[tytrex]

Hey 1101, what is it about the GOG version that I keep hearing people say that? I don't have GOG and I've never bought from them, how is it that they somehow have a more stable platform, considering that all three platforms are logging into the same spore servers, anyway?

[Нагито Комаэда]

Honestly, I don't know the reason.
It was widely considered that Origin version was the most stable. Although I didn't notice any serious differences.
The thing about GOG one is that you buy the game and Galactic Adventures + Creepy & Cute in one pack, and it's all included in the installation file. That means that you don't need to suffer with installing the game then both of it's DLCs separately in the right order. And they're all installed into one directory. Although this could be a difficulty for those installing mods, since there's no separate GA folder. But it still seems to work for me (I have Dark Injection installed + some necessary mods like Forcesaver).

I sometimes had a problem that the Spore on Origin didn't recognise the C&C pack (this was only one or two times, although), so I just prefer to play GOG version. Also, both versions sometimes seem to disconnect from Spore servers, however, it wasn't a hug problem to reconnect.

[Нагито Комаэда]

As for the Steam version, well, for some reasons GA and C&C are shown as separate games and not as DLCs. Technically you buy and install three games, which do not work well without each other and they just take a lot more place on hard drive (I don't know whether this somehow violates Steam rules or not). The whole Spore Collection on GOG weights about 5 GB. On Steam, this is the size of a single game. So you have 3 different shortcuts, and all these "games" have a separate statistics on Steam.

Also the problem with game keys. EA had decided long time ago to remove the base Spore game keys, so you cannot reddem them on Origin and thus you cannot access Sporepedia. You have to talk the support to give you the key. Strangely enough, this is not the case with GA and C&C.

What about modifications, I haven't tried them on Steam version, but people tell that mods often don't work correctly there, and that the best version for modified Spore was the Origin one. But EA once again ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ their pants with killing already good working game launcher and replacing it with EA App. You can watch DarkEdgeTV's video to know more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyFlXNPt-Xc

Thus, I would rather recommend to buy a GOG version.

[Lev]

yes i hate them they suck
electronic arts more like electronic FARTS
#fart

[jeremywyx]

i fell the same. F EA!

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[Danno]

EA is not Electronic Arts

Its...

Educated A--holes
or
Experienced A--holes