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Electronic Arts has confirmed work on Galactic Adventures, an upcoming expansion for Will Wright's Spore. The expansion, which will likely focus on the final phase of the game, will be one in a planned line of products in 2009 devoted to Spore .

Maxis, makers of The Sims, present the next big bang - SPORE. Create your unique creature and guide it on an epic journey through a universe of your own creations. Play any way you choose in the five evolutionary stages of Spore: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. How you play and what you do with your universe is entirely up to you. Spore gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even starships.

Features:
CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic—From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.
EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages—It’s survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.
EXPLORE Other Players’ Galaxies—Will your creature rule the universe, or will your beloved planet be blasted to smithereens by a superior alien race?
SHARE with the World—Everything you make is shared with other players and vice versa, providing tons of cool creatures to meet and new places to visit.

Galactic Adventures is tentatively scheduled for release sometime this Spring.

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[palenoue]

Thanks to the DRM in Spore, I've only been able to play halfway through the civilization stage.  Now I can't play the game because it requires a patch, which I can't load because it requires a reinstall, which I can't do because the DRM says I'm at my limit, and EA tech support offers no help because they believe I'm some kind of pirating scum.  Meanwhile I know a couple dozen people who downloaded pirated versions and haven't had any problems at all in playing.  I can't return the game and get my money back, I can't install a brand new game (that a friend bought me) because of the DRM, and EA refuses to respond because they don't want to admit their DRM is anything less than perfect.

If this comes with EA's DRM, don't buy it, you'll just lose your money if it glitches.

[dojoboy]

DRM aside, I'm still watching Spore closely for any signs of intelligence - such as depth of play rather than length of play.  Expansion shmanksion.  

[macdude22]

I've blown through 3 installs because of failed patches. I Loath any new patches because I'm sure it will honk up again and "poof" there goes your game.

Just roll like Stardock, no DRM. Install the game from the disk without so much as a serial.

You want updates and content expansions, register your serial and get anytime digital downloads of your software ta boot. No Digital River 1 time download bull honkey.

These are among the only Windows games I own are the ones from Stardock.

They reward the paying customers with new content and patches while ignoring the pirates. Pirates simply don't count in their value equation. Rather than actively annoying the paying customers while doing nothing to curb the pirates with redonkulous DRM.

Plus the fact they make good games doesn't hurt, they make you want to support them, not hate them.


*PS* Spore from a game play perspective was incredibly disappointing, this was not the game I was hyped up about for the past 2 years.

[the Battle Cat]

macdude22, on January 13th 2009, 12:29 PM, said:

*PS* Spore from a game play perspective was incredibly disappointing, this was not the game I was hyped up about for the past 2 years.

I was thinking just before I read this that Spore has turned out to be so disappointing to me for uninteresting game play and reports of DRM horrors that I'm for once grateful for not having an Intel computer, cause sure as popsnizzle, I'd have bought it from the hype I was frothing at the mouth over.

[dojoboy]

the Battle Cat, on January 13th 2009, 07:57 PM, said:

I was thinking just before I read this that Spore has turned out to be so disappointing to me for uninteresting game play and reports of DRM horrors that I'm for once grateful for not having an Intel computer, cause sure as popsnizzle, I'd have bought it from the hype I was frothing at the mouth over.

What?!



You have far TOO MUCH power here for someone who doesn't even have an Intel computer.

That's the problem with progressive policies, and democracies in general.  No class!  

As in, no class system.

[the Battle Cat]

It gets worse.  I'm waiting for teflon to tell me when to buy a computer.

[Eric5h5]

Well, you also wait for him to tell you what to wear every day, so that's not such a big deal.  Actually, I think pretty much all that mods/admins are on PPC.  Coincidence?  I think not!  We don't do that little-endian stuff, only big-endian for us.

--Eric