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My spouse and I are interested in Spore and we each have our own computer.  The big question now is do I have to buy two games for us to each play on separate computers or can one game work the same as we do with The Sims?

Thanks for any help

"Buy"? What is this "buy" you speak of? Screw that and pirate it. Spore has a three-limit activation, so one game and two computers means one activation left. Plus, game retails for +$50; gameplay ain't that great and doesn't justify the investment. Also, Suckurom will bend over and rape your DVD player.

Then, when it gets bored with the DvD, it'll murder your antivirus and bitch-slap your harddrive.

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They actually bumped it up to 5-limit due to complaints, but yea, it' ain't worth buying.

If you insist on buying it, using a no-cd crack gets you no SecuROM and no install limit anyway...

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, I will just point out that without connecting you don't get quite a lot of the achievements and without those the game is kinda dull!

I've never connected, yet I am still able to get the achievements. Though, if achievements is what it takes to make that game interesting for you, then I really question your taste.

Question away - slogging around the Galaxy doing the same old missions and trading/blowing things up gets really tired really quickly. I didn't say *all* achievements - but a lot of the speed challenge ones often don't work when logged off and the community sporecast/featured/make & publish X amount of whatever can't be done.

Actually no, you don't.  You get badges whether you're connected or not, but you have to be connected to the Spore servers to get Achievements, since they're stored online and not with your game.

Isn't that basically the same experience?

So
against an online timer makes the game less dull?

Hey, if you're willing to have your DVD drive raped, and your HD bitch-slapped for the shiny sparklies, have at it.

Not really -- badges are useful, because many/most of them unlock new stuff.  Achievements are bragging rights only -- they don't add any additional items or elements to gameplay.  They're basically useless, so it's no big deal if you don't get them. :)

The Achievements, including the timed ones, work just fine offline. You just can't actually SEE them anywhere, so you only know of them by memory or when you achieve one and the bar shows up to tell you.

NOt if you use the no cd crack your drive will be fine and you can enjoy the shinies.

Right, achievements. I get "Iron Cell" and "Fear of Flying" things all the time offline.

Why bother.

It's boring.

I've 'been there, done that'. Guess I shoulda got the t-shirt, but didn't.

It's NOT at all like the Sims (in any incarnation of the game).

Once I got to the space level and finished all the 'tasks'...it was such a let down. Yeah, you can keep playing, but why would you?

Plus, unless you're Sulu (from Star Trek) navigating the space stage is really hard. I had a really hard time with that 'space is 3D' part...guess I'm just not cut out to be an astronaut.

I'll stick to the Sims - it's way more fun to make romance sims have baby after baby and listen to them whine about it.