Spore

[mellowtigger]

Everquest2 has still been enjoyable to play. Tonight, the teeny tiny guild of GLBT folk that I play in actually had 6 people online at the same time. Huge! *laugh* I managed to get 3 of us in a group, even. That was a nice experience for a change.

Meanwhile, I remembered that Spore Creature Creator was supposed to be on sale this weekend in stores. So I went online and downloaded the free preview version. Within minutes, I went online to order the full thing. It's already impressive, and this is just the creature editor, not the actual game. (That's due in September.)  While ordering my game, though, I noticed two things. 1) "E-commerce hosting and data processing services are provided by Digital River Inc.." and 2) "pre-ordered release date: Wed Jun 18 12:00:00 CDT 2008".

Oh, hey, that's where my roommatejoshuwain works. Oh, hey... *glance at clock*... it's the 18th right now!

But the Spore website defies my wishes! It says I pre-ordered, yet it prevents me from digitally downloading my purchase. Argh! I wonder if I could go pound on joshuwain  's door at 2am and get him to fix it for me? }:)

Oh well.  I really should be sleeping instead of doing this: 
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/MellowTigger

Comments

[kauko.livejournal.com]

All my toons are guildless at the moment. I've been through 4 guilds in that past year now and I'm about sick of it. Guilds only seem to be good for drama and leaders who are control freaks. The leader of the guild I just left (who is a necromancer) would let almost no mages in his raids (I guess so he and the other raid leader, also a mage, could get all the mage loot), and he outright said he doesn't let conjurors in HIS raids, and since my main is a conjuror that didn't sit well with me. So, here I am flying solo again.

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'll check when I get into the office. :)

[mellowtigger]

Come on over to Antonia Bayle. ;) We don't actively prevent anybody from doing anything, we're just too small to raid. *laugh*

Seriously, though, one of the chat channels last night was filled with voices talking about how well populated our server is as folk were logging in just to see the new void storms. (Go to your local mage guild and look at the Void Cloak available on the new vendor there. Pretty shiny toy!)

[mellowtigger]

Still doesn't work. :( I filled out an EA customer support request. I dunno if it has something to do with my being on Vista 64-bit, but my EA Download Manager has no games showing in its display area.

[mellowtigger]

Argh! It's released not at 12 midnight, but at 12 noon.

What silly person made that decision?!

[kauko.livejournal.com]

Oh i was up til 4am last night getting 20 Concordium appreciation notes to get my troubadour the cloak and the entire set of chain appearance slot gear.

[kauko.livejournal.com]

Crushbone server is well populated too...... well populated with assholes.

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

<chuckles> Hard to say... I'll ask the EA guys...

Besides, I thought the "pre-ordering" was to be in September.

[mellowtigger]

For the main game, yes. This today is only for the creature creator.

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... Can you provide me a link to the page where the Creature Creator can be allegedly downloaded?

[mellowtigger]

I wish it was that easy. Here's the page that says a download is possible.
http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ProductID.96890600

But after the purchase is made, apparently they just flip a switch at their servers that then allows their own download manager program to pull the file down to a local directory. (Why all the bother? Why not just a direct link?)

But it's 30 minutes after official release time, and my download manager is still empty. :(

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Try it again; we had to bounce our servers. We got hit with huge amounts of traffic... If it doesn't work that time, phone Customer Service; they should be able to help you.

[mellowtigger]

Progress, but still no file. *sigh* I opened another EA ticket.

I received my email about the digital download, but the link is not clickable. (The prefix for the link is "ealink:" not http: or ftp:, so I don't recognize what format it's aiming for.)

My EA Download Manager finally lists the program in its window, but it refuses to download anything. (0KB of 0KB transferred) *shrug*

[kauko.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll create a toon on Antonia Bayle and start stalking you, better check behind all the trees next time you're walking through Nek forest muahahahah

[mellowtigger]

Hrmmmm. A bear in the forest? 8)

I'm usually there as Larell.

[kauko.livejournal.com]

I spent the morning adding screenshot (some silly) pictures to my main toons' profiles :)

Kauko (http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=783950203)
Kivutar (http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=808586203)
Kullervo (http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=971439203)
Tuoni (http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=861530203)

[mellowtigger]

Their servers are slow about updating. "No images have been uploaded by this character" for all 4 of your links in their Media tab.

It seems like it's been 2 weeks since Larell hit 80 Alchemist, but my page still shows me at 79. *shrug*