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Posted August 05, 2021
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amok: OP misunderstand the issue. Yes, gOg is not a trusted partner for EA in that you can not get games for EA Origin here. However EA is a publisher that sells some games on gOg. There is a mountain of difference here.

TLDR: EA as a publisher sell some of their games on gOg. gOg is not a partner that sell games for EA Origin.
I think that's the point.
Posted August 05, 2021
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deja65: Just wanted to add that in my case the CD keys are there. There was a very similar case with the World in Conflict GOG version where Ubisoft issued a very limited number of geniune CD keys. People that bought the game early, now have them tied to their GOG account. Now it says “CD keys depleted” for anyone buying it. Similar thing happend here where EA just cared enough to generate a small initial batch and then forget about it forever. On Origin, CD keys are generated upon purchase, and differ from their retail counterparts, but are reedemable. Cheers
How exactly GOG will solve this problem is none of my business.

Online features are announced on the store page of SPORE Collection, I was counting on online features when buying the game, but at the moment I (and everyone who recently bought SPORE Collection on GOG) have "something" that is no different from the pirated version.
Posted August 05, 2021
So, do I understand this correctly that the GOG version of the Spore collection can be played without a serial key, but you can't access the online features anymore if you buy it now?
Posted August 05, 2021
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Grargar: What if GOG was an abandonware store all along?
Some people have seriously suggested in other threads that GOG is basically just that.
Downloading games from abandonware sites, repackaging them with their own installers, and then selling them and giving some amount of money according to agreements to IP holders.

Obviously these people who claim that have never shown any proof of that. But there are people who believe that it's how GOG operates.
Posted August 05, 2021
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deja65: Just wanted to add that in my case the CD keys are there. There was a very similar case with the World in Conflict GOG version where Ubisoft issued a very limited number of geniune CD keys. People that bought the game early, now have them tied to their GOG account. Now it says “CD keys depleted” for anyone buying it. Similar thing happend here where EA just cared enough to generate a small initial batch and then forget about it forever. On Origin, CD keys are generated upon purchase, and differ from their retail counterparts, but are reedemable. Cheers
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OHMYGODJCABOMB: How exactly GOG will solve this problem is none of my business.

Online features are announced on the store page of SPORE Collection, I was counting on online features when buying the game, but at the moment I (and everyone who recently bought SPORE Collection on GOG) have "something" that is no different from the pirated version.
Have you tried contacting actual EA to complain about this (and to be clear, by actual EA, I don't mean posting on their forum and then listening to a community manager who probably has no clue what's going on)
Posted August 05, 2021
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OHMYGODJCABOMB: I advise you to refrain from purchasing any EA games here (especially SPORE Collection) until GOG sheds some light on this situation.
I'll continue to do that even if GOG sheds some light on this situation. I'm not buying Dead Space and Dragon Age Origins until they release the sequels as well. I'm sick and tired of big publishers acting like their decade-old games should only be sold on DRM-infested stores.
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Leroux: My guess is everything older than 10 years is dead and as good as non-existent to EA, hence why they allow it to be sold on GOG
If that were true, they'd sell Dead Space 2 and Dragon Age II here.
Post edited August 05, 2021 by Ice_Mage
Posted August 05, 2021
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pds41: Have you tried contacting actual EA to complain about this (and to be clear, by actual EA, I don't mean posting on their forum and then listening to a community manager who probably has no clue what's going on)
I bought the game here on GOG, not directly from EA.

It's GOG who should contact EA in order to solve this problem, not the GOG users who already paid for the game and were fooled by the store.
Posted August 05, 2021
I don't know what to believe about any of this but I want more of EA's past titles here. Dead Space 2, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age Inquisition, Mass Effect Trilogy are all no-brainer fits for this store and are insta-buys for me provided they are DRM-free.
Posted August 05, 2021
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SCPM: Seriously, other companies like Ubisoft or Sega list dozens of retailers for their games, and they both include GOG as a trusted partner.
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fronzelneekburm: LOL, I don't know what's more baffling: EA not listing gog despite selling games here or Sega listing gog despite not selling a single game here.
That's a pretty strange claim to make considering all I had to do to check was type Sega into the search box to see that they published The Deadly Tower of Monsters here.
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InkPanther: The same CM had no problem with those suggestions regarding GOG a couple of months ago:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/Please-release-more-games-on-GOG/td-p/10379150
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PixelBoy: It's hard to tell whether he has problems or not, as in that single thread alone he copy-pasted a generic response twice.
No he didn't, you're just misunderstanding what you're seeing. First you're seeing the post marked as the solution (post #4) then you're seeing post #4 in its natural place in the thread. Stickying the post marked as the solution just below the OP is common in help forums.
Post edited August 05, 2021 by my name is supyreor catte
Posted August 05, 2021
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pds41: Have you tried contacting actual EA to complain about this (and to be clear, by actual EA, I don't mean posting on their forum and then listening to a community manager who probably has no clue what's going on)
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OHMYGODJCABOMB: I bought the game here on GOG, not directly from EA.

It's GOG who should contact EA in order to solve this problem, not the GOG users who already paid for the game and were fooled by the store.
It's EA who issue the keys.

Piling on to GoG isn't likely to make much of a difference, but knock yourself out. You can always ask GoG if they'll refund you - but Spore is just as enjoyable without the online features, so up to you.
Posted August 06, 2021
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OHMYGODJCABOMB: I bought the game here on GOG, not directly from EA.

It's GOG who should contact EA in order to solve this problem, not the GOG users who already paid for the game and were fooled by the store.
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pds41: It's EA who issue the keys.

Piling on to GoG isn't likely to make much of a difference, but knock yourself out. You can always ask GoG if they'll refund you - but Spore is just as enjoyable without the online features, so up to you.
EA issues the MP keys to gOg, not to indiividual buyers. If the issue here that there are missing MP keys, he need to contact gOg support as this is the store he bought it from, not EA.
Posted August 06, 2021
Curious, some of their old titles' distributions on Origin, like Nox, are 1:1 copies of GOG distributions, including the GOG-specific DLLs etc.
Posted August 06, 2021
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Grargar: What if GOG was an abandonware store all along?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE
What if the real GOG was the enemies we made along the way?
Posted August 06, 2021
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amok: If the issue here that there are missing MP keys, he need to contact gOg support as this is the store he bought it from, not EA.
It was already done on July 14 and I got the typical offer to wait (and of course there will be no compensation for inconvenience).

A few days ago, I decided that I had waited long enough and went to EA Answers HQ to try to speed up the process of providing new batch of serial keys to GOG.

And now we are here, because only public discussion of the problem makes GOG work faster.
Posted August 06, 2021
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Leroux: My guess is everything older than 10 years is dead and as good as non-existent to EA, hence why they allow it to be sold on GOG but can't even be bothered to mention it on their website. GOG is their trash can. ;P
I'd be perfectly fine with that if it meant that GOG would actually have all of their 10+ year old games.
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