The difference is, spore has little to no influence from EA
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EDIT: My favorite is probably... Hmm... Well, not Sony Online Entertainment, their customer support sucks, Planetside events suck, they don't fix bugs and instead release events that break other things, like the Halloween "chainblade massacre" broke some continent bases, so they can't be captured...
EA seems to just bugger everything up they touch.
Umm... Activision I'm pretty annoyed with because they're moving CoD onto the suX-Box.
Valve aren't so bad, except when they make a patch that breaks VAC.
They're the ones I can think of... So Valve wins
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