Ho Ho EA have blown it, I have been thinking about buying Spore for quite a while now and I came here tonight to have a good look at all the comments from people leading up to the games release to see if the overall view is positive or negative but on seeing this thread I now know I won't be buying this game -the reason being the online authorisation procedure.
This is the exact same reason I returned the Half Life 2 Orange box set the day it arrived, when you purchase disks for a game you expect to be able to play that game wherever and whenever you want -you certainly shouldn't have to have an internet connection just to install a game in the first place that just defeats the purpose of buying a standalone game and you might as well have just brought it through an online service like Steam.
Well at least I can now cross Spore off my list of games and I don't have to worry about reading any further previews lol
Good luck with your game EA and god help your Customer Services department when people without reliable internet access start to realise they have got a game that they can't play even though they purchased it all nice and legally
