Spore Almost Done, Going Gold Within Week; EA CEO Hints at Microtransactions, Poss. Spore Label

My Store said I can pick up my copy of SPORE on the 4th September 2008, in time for fathers day.

Can't wait to be a father all over again, from the birth of my creation to train it to fly UFO's. LOL

I have just $24.94 left to pay, on my pre-order.

NICE.....(Aussie Dollars) Shared 30 creatures to date, do a search on Ca5h.

Fuck micro transactions.

Way to totally turn me off to the game, you fucking corporate whores.

Oh, I have an idea for an expansion pack. "Spore: Von Neumann Conquest" in which you design cute little probes that explore the galaxy and use up every bit of matter found to make more cute little probes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

OK, Been creating many creatures to populate my Solar System, yep I am greedy, I am looking to come our of the pool, on to land, create a culture, then a city, then a Saucer.....

Once I have done this it is out to make my own 13 planet Solar System with 3 Stars and 6 hour days.

I have shared about 14 creatures with the Spore Creature Creator, have extra 50 sitting on my hard drive ready to go an populate my Solar System once I have transformed the planets so they can survive for more than 3 seconds,,,,LOL love that part....

Oh, I have my copy on pre-order and at $99.95 AUS it is going to be worth every cent even thought the ocean as seen on early videos has been deleted from the Sept 5th release. Think I have $20 left to pay on it.....LOL Being a gamer that is 39 years old, I have never, ever done this with a game... so like WOW.

Found out today, that if you click the little boxes when using the creator, you can see the effects,,,Cool

My creatures can be found if you type in Ca5h and I have posted a few You Tube Videos... It is fun just with the Creature Creator, Would be nice if the Building Creator was released a month before the ship date, so I could start to develop some BUILDINGS for my Creatures.....

September 5th in Australia is a Friday and think I am also going to take the 8th and 9th off, so I can get my creature out of the pool, and onto the land. It is going to be the biggest game of all time, and the Idea that their is a loose connection with what happens with too much CO2, it works for me GLOBAL WARMING is the single biggest issue of the decade, I have seen a doco on the ABC last week about a large ice burg slamming itself into the Ross Shelf down in Antarctica, the effects to the only mammal that lives on the continent all year round, it now has a new Mountain Range to negotiate, and it is not able to do this with allot of success.

SPORE will allow us to experiment, learn and open our minds, to think beyond a 100 years. The what if's of the future generations, and if UFO means Alien Life, how what we do and think may influence the action they take. We would be a very nieave culture to think that we are the only inteligent species in the universe.

The game is also going to bread a new range of people to Astrology and the study of the stars. Yes, I realize we have Google Earth, but SPORE puts you in the stars, not just the view from EARTH.

OK, that is enough for my first POST....LOL Mr Ca5h

This game unfortunately caused me to temporarily forego my EA boycott. But only this time. One thing though, it's pretty annoying that I preordered the full game, but there's no way to play the Creature Creator ahead of time with shelling out an additional $10 for something I already bought. Damn you EA :(.

I have a hard time believing this game will be near as popular as The Sims, if only due to its inclusion of evolution as a gameplay paradigm. There are a good number of folks in the US that will dislike it merely due to that, and I wouldn't be surprised if some fundamentalist groups boycotted it or otherwise.

"We've got a clear, obvious and very compelling post-launch monetization opportunity," Ricitello explained during a conference call. "This is a game where basically, the parts are what make the sum of the product work."

This is the kind of thing that gamers are never meant to hear. We all understand that a company needs to make money... and this developer seems to have worked very hard to make this game enjoyable for us... but c'mon... "I've found a way to milk gamers for all they've got!" and "This game isn't really worth it unless you buy ALL the expansions." Have I translated correctly? If I have then that's a big WTF.

An "almost gone gold" thread? I realize it was national EA day today, but cmon', what a non news newspost. ;(

How many times will I be able to install the game?

> "We've got a clear, obvious and very compelling post-launch monetization opportunity,"

I think that just sucked the soul right out of the game

I don't understand what people are complaining about here.

It shouldn't be surprising at all that a game from EA, with an obvious avenue for expansion/DLC (more parts to work with) is going to have additional parts crafted for it and sold post-release.

Nothing about this destroys the "soul" of the game, whatever the fuck that means. It'll be a fun game, and as best I can tell, will ship with more than enough parts to create millions of insane combinations of creatures, armor, buildings, vehicles, and galactic spaceships.

Would more parts for free be cool? Sure, but there's no sign that the game will be lacking, or that things have been held back to nickel and dime us, so why worry about it?

Woot! I say woot!

New Story Title, Now with more commas; But not just yet, well maybe now; Stay tuned, or not

Spore: IKEA Body Parts Home Stuff and Spore: Nightlife Dancing Legs

I have to confess that my enthusiasm about this game has been on the decline since the day it was announced. It has nothing to do with the "monetization" comment, although that doesn't exactly make me more interested in the game, either.

To me, it just sounds like way too grandiose of a concept, with a bunch of various different types of game genres glommed together in sequence, and I have never been a fan of RTSs at all anyway.

Sweet. Hopefully it does not disappoint.

As versatile as the creature creator is... I wouldn't mind having some more parts to play with.
Do I want to pay for them? not really. but if it was reasonably low (say under $5.00 for a smattering of extra parts) I'd be for it.

Here's my creator page.
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/Vertdang