I'm not buying this game until I know everything about the copy protection. I've no doubt its an inspired game; but I'm not buying a game that I can only install 3 times. I'm running XP. That means crashes, reformats, clean outs, backups, upgrades, optimisations -the works. so, shortly, it's bye bye spore.
*kicks back, checks date, time, and pours himself a cuppa tea* >
<- thats grim determination, by the way :P