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EA: No Spore demo, but expansions planned [News]
EA executive producer Lucy Bradshaw has ruled out a demo for Spore, but confirmed future expansions.

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Publish Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:24:35 +0100
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EA are so predictable

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: IKEA?[/i]

the creatures of SPORE visit H&M.

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?

More evolutionary steps? Further progression into the universe? More bits to stick on? Multiplayer?

Spore 2: MMONG

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".

Mounts.

It's priced at console game monies already! How much add on can a game that has taken this damn long have, oh wait, it's EA...

Fuck you EA, fuck you with a splintery stick smeared in shit!

Yep, £40 from EA Download. And it's only yours for six months. Not going to compete with Steam any time soon with a business model like that.

Dog Pants wrote:And it's only yours for six months. Not going to compete with Steam any time soon with a business model like that.

What?! How the fuck is that legal?

/Moved to gaming chat.

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.

It'll be a bean-counter thing.

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.

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.

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.

So you'd be paying £46, to download the game, and be able to download it in the future...

or you could walk into Game and get it for £30, and have it forever.

Way to go, EA. Way to go.