Comments on: Spore Creature Comforts on June 17th

By: Umm.....

Umm..... — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:26:16 +0000

hello all, although this original post is quite old by now… just to let you know spore creature editor is owned by tens of thousands of people, and many agree that they would rather play the creature editor game than Spore, and think Spore to be too “hardcore” even with all of it’s huggable cartoonish-ness. furthermore, HUGE improvements have been made to spore since CE has been realeased. have you seen any new screenshots lately? heres why:
Maxis 400,000,000$=Awsome game
Maxis EA(GreedyBastard) LowBudget=Paid-fordemo=Lotsofannoyingbloggers Lotsofmoney=
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By: KingMob

KingMob — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:33 +0000

I think they’ll reduce the price for this tool once the game has been released. At present it’s a good lead-in for already interested consumers. Once the game has been released and the marketing has inundated the mass market as well as early adopters the tool will be a nice way to get mass market people excited about the game.

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On a completely different subject, this tool will allow them to start testing whatever system they have in place or planned to detect unacceptable user content. I can only hope they have such a system planned… call it a “Penile Recognition System.” Hopefully once they have it set up for Spore they’ll be able to use it to screen content in many other places!

By: josh g.

josh g. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:17:58 +0000

Lame. I’ll take the free version and wait for the full game, thanks.

By: jph wacheski

jph wacheski — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:08:28 +0000

Gota agree with Geoff here,. quit your bitchin and just dont buy it, if that is too much for your unevloved little pea-brain then spore will not help you,. Who says they will not offer an upgrade path? They are likely only doing this as they are missing some mile stone,. again, and had to release something,. plus they now get all this ‘user generated content’ and make you pay for the privlage,. just prooves you are suckers! Why not just be happy with the 25 percent of eye stocks and webed feet? if you can not be satasfied, then don’t you think that prooves there is value in the rest of the content and you should therefor have to pay for it?!? It is not scummy to make money selling art that people are willing to pay for.
It is indeed an extream luxury item; you should just count yourself lucky to be worring about wether to pay for imaginary creature parts or wait for the full ver.,. while others on this same planet are currently contemplating weather to pay for food or rent,. . or leave their home to avoid war or starvation,.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:43:15 +0000

Ah, being cynical about Spore. I’d missed it. Wright even had me going for a few weeks with those good-looking screenshots.

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:25:32 +0000

Of all the wacky ways of (BUZZWORD ALERT) monetizing content beyond the game itself, this is one of the better ideas.

By: Rook

Rook — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:22 +0000

Honestly, EA could have been a lot worse. Imagine if the $9.99 had included a bunch of arms and eyes not in the retail version and no free demo, then I could understand the bitching. (although I’ll assume the special edition probably has something like that in it).

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:26:03 +0000

I totally understand all those who are complaining about EA tricking us into paying for this piece of the game twice. I mean, $10 now then $50 when the game comes out? What dastardly trickery.

Fortunately, because I am so crafty, I’ve devised a method for avoiding this double-pay, which I’ll divulge here on these Intertubes, at great personal risk:
Don’t buy this $10 thing. Wait for the game. Buy the game.

What’s that? You’re so anxious you have to have it now now now? Can’t wait for the real game release? Hmmm. I have a plan that will work for you too! Pay the $10.

There’s nothing dastardly here. Turns out that if you’re patient, you can get game/movies/hardware cheaper than the people who are impatient. Companies are willing to satisfy your need for instant gratification, if you’ll satisfy their need for cash money.

And it’s not a demo. This is not the historic and terrible “charging money for a demo” precedent. It’s not a demo. If someone released a version of Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, which only included the RTS part, not the planetary campaign part, but allowed for full-featured indefinite play, we would not call that a demo.

By: a-scale

a-scale — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:17:06 +0000

I would also like to add that this appears unsound in marketing terms. If Spore really is as cool as they say, it would be entirely in their interest to give away the creature creator for free in order to hook players into buying the full game. By charging for creature creator and game they are limiting their market to those would would buy the full game anyway, and even then making only a few extra dollars out of the impetuous ones.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:44:10 +0000

EA will use the creative input into these freely handed out designers to tear the consense reality a new space hole and allow the great old ones to enslave humanity. It’s just the kind of guys they are.

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:39:50 +0000

The fact that they’re charging for this is the very reason people get all cynical. If ever something should be released free, it would be this. It would both get more people interested and generate a user base who would then pay for the main game, which EA could do without being all soulless corporate scum milking the people who you want on your side for extra pocket change.

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:39:49 +0000

Putting my cynical hat on, I think this is probably a tacit admission by EA that the creature creator is the most fun part of the game…

I did get a hands-on with Spore’s creature creator at the Leipzig GC in 2006, and I did think at the time that I’d probably spend more time pissing about creating freakish monsters than playing the game itself. There was an amazing amount of customisation available in the version I got to tinker with – I don’t know if they’ve added stuff since then.

So $10 for a fully-featured version of the bit of Spore I’d use most sounds like a bit of a bargain, particularly if it turns out that the game itself isn’t as good as I hope it will be…