El_Gringo_Grande

719 one star ratings on Amazon!

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Gambit7

I will say this, Spore isnt for typically impatient, uncreative gamers. All is well in this regard until you get to the Civilization stage, which is basically a WALL of options. You can basically make anything you can imagine and for many people that's a bit much.

Honestly, though.... I've fooled with many 3D CAD systems and 3d modeling solftware and in many ways this simple game blows them away. It's so easy to get what you want out of it that it really opens up creative doors for people that dont have the patience to fool around with apps like 3dsMax or Maya.

If you're buying Spore for the GAME, then dont bother. It's a pure Sandbox with assorted easter eggs and accomplishments you can unlock, all the while sharing your creations with others. They even give you your own webpage to maintain your creations publicly, along with sporecasts (blogs basically). That's a whole helluva lot for $50. But, it's not a game.

So far for me the "gameyest" thing I could think of is trying to figure out how to take down the Epic boss' in Creature mode. This requires finding and using the most powerful public creatures you can get and then populating your world with them. I havent gotten that into it yet though.

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El_Gringo_Grande

All the bad ratings I was where bashing the DRM. And from what I hear the DRM is horrible.

You have to activate the game to play. You can only activate three times then must call in to get a single new activation.

It does suck but I think this a general reaction to the DRM. Me personally I will wait till it is 29.95 or less.

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I’m not racists, I have republican friends. Radio show host.
- "The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity". -Jacob Burkhardt
- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson
- "People should not be afraid of it's government, government should be afraid of it's People." - Line from V for Vendetta
- If software were as unreliable as economic theory, there wouldn't be a plane made of anything other than paper that could get off the ground. Jim Fawcette

Trooper

I dont want to start comparing this game to others but what kind of game out in the market now is this most like?

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that sounds like a good idea trooper.
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Banyan

Yeah, the DRM is a deal-breaker for me. I tend to do fresh OS installs, I build my pc's part by part, etc - that DRM leaves me uneasy.

El_Gringo_Grande

I had it in my hands yesterday and put it down. Games like this I tend to revisit many times over many years. I have probably installed and uninstalled Sim-City 2000 a dozen times.

When it gets to the bargain bin I will buy it. Or if they decide to reduce the DRM crap.

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I’m not racists, I have republican friends. Radio show host.
- "The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity". -Jacob Burkhardt
- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson
- "People should not be afraid of it's government, government should be afraid of it's People." - Line from V for Vendetta
- If software were as unreliable as economic theory, there wouldn't be a plane made of anything other than paper that could get off the ground. Jim Fawcette

Banyan

I agree 100%. I've reinstalled old games over the years many times while waiting for something to come along and really grab my attention. A sandbox game like this definitely has that potential, but EA has hamstrung my ability to do so with the current DRM.

Twisted_Firestarter

I've long since stopped trying to fight the good fight and get companies to realize that DRM only causes problems for people who purchase the product, not for pirates. So, just do what I do and avoid the issue altogether: buy it and then get the crack. The software company gets their money for their efforts, you get your game DRM free.

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Dilly

<piracy promotion deleted> screw drm, screw companies that resort to using it. they don't deserve our money.

Anospa

The bad part of the situations that arise with people not buying products containing DRM tools like this it probably hurts the developers more than the publishers, as I would think the publishing companies have more projects moving and probably can make more of a turnaround on many products. I believe Maxis is part of EA now (and many other companies they've gobbled up), so they probably wouldn't/won't be effected too much by people not buying their game as I would imagine EA will continue supporting Maxis.

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Bisclaveret

They'l have to continue supporting Maxis. I mean, theres 10 other Sims 2 expansion packs on the line! as well as Sims 3 and the 20 various expansion packs of 20 new objects lined up!

Plus theres the whole Spore line. They were planning on turning Spore into a brandname, like a Hello Kitty type of thing.

Theres no doubt they'l continue to use Maxis to churn out stuff.

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