I'm trying to install Spore on my Mac (MacBook Pro 13', Dual Core, Snow-Leopard).
I'm having a few problems… Not long ago a friend of mine gave me his Spore copy and his Spore key code to try and install the game. As it commanded me to type in the code, it appeared to be invalid so I went ahead and just bought my own copy of Spore. I deleted the old game on my mac and installed the new one. It installed fine, but when I tried to play it, I had to wait about 20 minutes for it to tell me that the code is invalid. It didn't even let me try to type in my new code! What it sad was: Try reinstalling, purchasing a new copy and a new code and then trying again (What I actually did). It's still telling me to buy a new one…
The game also asked for updates. I updated it as many times as it wanted in hope to be able to play soon… With the newest update, it doesn't even let me open the game! It just crashes straight up!
I'm really close to throwing that game out of my window… Would downloading a cracked version be illegal now?
Best Answer
Thank you for your efforts!
I searched around other websites and found a soltion 2 my problem!
It appears that after being uninstalled, Spore lives a "Preferences"-folder behind which can't be spotted by App uninstall apps such as "AppDelete" which i used to uninstall Spore. After deleting that folder, the game gave me a chance to try my luck again and insert my Key-code, which i happily did!
The game was fun for the first 2 hours, but then got EXTREMLY repedetive. On stackexchange's gaming blog, there's a review of spore which tells that Spore is bad really BAD. I agree with it completly.
I think i already regret bying it...
The Review (as posted by Bwarner in a commet above): Spore sucks.
Thank you again for the support!
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THE PREFERENCE FOLDER IS UNDER: /Users//Library/Preferences/Spore Preferences (originally posted by gavriels on the macrumors forums)