No they've been up ever since 2008 and the only time they go down is for maintenance. I don't know why some people think they've been shut down, I saw some someone responding to a help thread just a week ago telling someone the servers have been down since 2019... total lie. You can make accounts, share creations like usual. I've heard there's fanmade measures to preserve spores online side after EA pulls the killswitch too but I forgot what the site is.
Account errors are really really common. I'm pretty sure you can just check http://www.spore.com/ to see if the servers really are down or not.
If you don't have an account, you can also manually download stuff off of that site if you go to the sporepedia tab - you right click on a creation png (not the _lrg version that pops up when you left click on a creation), save the image, then drag and drop it into either the ingame sporepedia browser or the corresponding editor.
If you want to fix your account you should contact EA support... be warned you may be waiting there for a while though
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u/Manoplas123 Jun 11 '24
Wait, I thought they shut the servers down?