I was intrigued by Spore. I’m generally a sucker for strategy/action games (I’ve purchased nearly every game Sid Meiers has sold) I get disappointed fast with games that don’t live up to the hype. I bought Age of Sail II on the pre-release reviews and it was wretched. All the hype around Spore made me a little nervous, but the Sims rocked and if these were the same people, then maybe it would be okay.

The one thing I hate about the Sims is that I have to have the CD to play. When the CD gets scratched I’m boned. I like to play games on my macbook and it’s a huge pain in the ass to cart a CD case around with game install discs just so the game will play. I was hoping they would fix that with Spore, and they tried, sorta, I guess… You can install the game three times and activate it over the Internet when you want to play. What happens when you cannot connect to the net? Does your copy stop? I want Spore to play when I can’t see the net (else I’d be playing WoW)

Here’s some of the on-going coverage of the Spore mis-launch.

After some testing I have been able to write posts for my blog on my iPod, on the web, and in MacJournal. Anything that’s on the web site will sync down to the iPod, but MacJournal doesn’t seem to receive changes from the blog after downloading the initial blog post.

I’ll post on the macjournal forums to see if that’s normal or if it’s a bug. I’ve tried to download edited posts using macjournal 5.0.4 and 5.1.