Fair enough on the demo front; I've no idea how they could get that to work.
Expansions... how do you expand on a universe? The moment "Spore: Beach Party" is released I'm buying a gun.
Spore: Backwards, Red Dwarf Style? You start as a space faring race and use the creature destructor to progressively (regressively?) remove parts from your creatures until they become single-cell organisms, and are eventually subjected to binary fusion and exist only as a single creature?
Sad. Though the creature creator is a demo in itself.
I'm guessing Sims style content packs for the expansions though.
More body/vehicle/building parts to play with.
More tools/clothes/weapons to use
More planet types, more space-age powers?
They have potential to expand it with content, seeing as it's more or less a 'create your own game' sort of thing.
I'll keep my eyes peeled for "Spore goes to University" and "Spore on Holiday", not forgetting "Spore hot date".
TezzRexx wrote:
What?! How the fuck is that legal?
Well, sort of. You can have it as long as you like, but if you want EA to remember that you bought it so you can download it again you have to pay extra, otherwise you can't download it after six months.
Someone probably got a promotion for saving the company a few quid by figuring that purging 6-month-old customer purchase data and not having to provide hosting for redownloading would cost them less. Of course the additional expense of them actually doing this anyway plus the additional admin cost of having a two-tier system is passed on to the customer.
They'll no-doubt see it as a legitimate charge for a value-add premium service, rather than nobbling an existing service and making customers pay for them not to.
Dog Pants wrote:Will you be paying for it? Six quid isn't it, making the game £46. I think that's possibly the most expensive PC game ever.
Most expensive non-subscription game, anyway. I'd guess my top three would be Eve £360, WoW £250 and LoTRO £120 - but they still work out at a lot less than £1/hour - HL Ep1 as an example of a good game at a fair price that I played to completion would be about £5/hour.
EA: No Spore demo, but expansions planned [News]
