Does Spore Need the CD?

BradB · Sep 7, 2008, 09:52 AM

I have a brother and we are both paying for the game. I'm on a macbook and he's on vista. Do you need the disc inserted at all times to play it? Then we could both play it.

Schtumple · Sep 7, 2008, 09:54 AM

You don't need the disc on Mac to play, Vista I can't confirm though.

BradB · Sep 7, 2008, 10:01 AM

Sweet. Worst comes to worst, my bro can use the cd, since I don't need it anyway.

kkat69 · Sep 7, 2008, 10:08 AM

The DRM with Spore is different than others. You don't require the CD to play (in fact you can read this on the spore website) but your limited to 3 installations. Beyond 3, you need to contact them and get the count extended.

BradB · Sep 7, 2008, 10:33 AM

I know about that, it's only being installed on 2. If you uninstall, does it give you 1 back? Just curious.

Mackilroy · Sep 7, 2008, 04:02 PM

Sadly uninstalling Spore does not reset the count.

muldul · Sep 7, 2008, 04:11 PM

You don't need the disc for mac or pc after installation and uninstalling doesn't give you it back, also if you upgrade your operating system, that counts for one, but I'm not sure how that would work.

puckhead193 · Sep 7, 2008, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mackilroy

Sadly uninstalling Spore does not reset the count.

that sucks... what if you re-install your OS and what not...i would hate to pay for reinstall

kkat69 · Sep 7, 2008, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by puckhead193

that sucks... what if you re-install your OS and what not...i would hate to pay for reinstall

There's nothing that states a pay for reinstall where are you getting that?

You bought the game and do not need to pay anything else, but if you install it and reinstall it enough times (3 is the limit) then you have to contact them to verify that YOU need the additional installs and no one else.

There's FAQ's on this at the spore site.

Nimby12 · Mar 10, 2013, 02:46 PM

im really confused today im buying spore i cant tell if u install it or u wait a day or so for the disk to come plz help me out

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muldul macrumors 6502 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: West Sussex, England, UK	You don't need the disc for mac or pc after installation and uninstalling doesn't give you it back, also if you upgrade your operating system, that counts for one, but I'm not sure how that would work. __________________ Black Macbook 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, Snow Leopard iPhone 4 16 GB - Naked iPod shuffle 4GB (3rd Gen) iPod Nano 16GB (5th Gen)
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BradB Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2008	Sweet. Worst comes to worst, my bro can use the cd, since I don't need it anyway.
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BradB Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2008	I know about that, it's only being installed on 2. If you uninstall, does it give you 1 back? Just curious.
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Nimby12 macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2013	im confused does spore use a disk and if it dosnt how do u install it? im really confused today im buying spore i cant tell if u install it or u wait a day or so for the disk to come plz help me out
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