Like any complex software product is also Spore not perfect, it crashes on some systems from occasional, but also has bugs that can cause the player in hopeless situations (you put eg on a planet fixed and may it never left) - in principle no problem, but Maxis has waived inexplicably on the popular auto-save in the background. Who like to play a few hours at a time, sees itself may catapulted from the space back into the primordial soup and starts again when single-celled organisms. Catastrophic Devolution, as it were.
Spoiled by games of the 21st century I have to get used to it for now, regularly save himself (a quick save feature, it seems unfortunately not to give, you have to say in each case to the menu, keyword: Immersion).
The copy punished paying buyer while that it should take, just laugh about it - who the game on the desktop and - on the go - installed on the notebook, has already used up two of the three allowable installations and must then pay for it in brief , with EA to beg another installation.