Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26288110-20150722231251/@comment-26288110-20170325194703

Yes, they updated spore with a client update. You can NO LONGER PLAY ONLINE ON THE DISC VERSION OF SPORE. WOW, MAXIS. JUST WOW. Apparently, you can only do it on the origon version, but then you have to pay for it, so its rather stupid.