L&P Spore (expansion) announced
Alex:
In a typical move, EA has shocked and startled the world with their surprise announcement that they plan to milk the Spore series until they leave it for dead.
It's barely been out a month and Spore's first expansion pack has been announced. Apparently it will "expand the space stage and give space-borne civilizations Star Trek-esque teleportation technology, letting players beam down to distant planets and undertake new missions. The expansion will also add in the Adventure Creator, which will let gamers build and share their own missions."
They're also doing the stuff pack thing, this time called "parts packs". Spore: Creepy & Cute Parts will add "in excess of 100 new creature-building parts that will fall in line with the titular theme. The parts, available in the game's Creature Creator, include components for the body, as well as paint options, animations, and backgrounds."
Parts packs = Epic phail.
As for the expansion, the space stage is fleshed out enough as it is. They should be focusing on making the other stages halfway decent and playable. Anything they do add in this expansion should have been in the game in the first place anyway.
As I've uninstalled Spore, I am definitely not getting involved in this series. Such a shame how greedy evil publishers can ruin something that had the potential to become very, very good.
PirateFaafy:
I'd be, at least, satisfied if they just gave us an ability to start in space with something other than Wanderer, and especially the ability to get the carnivore/social/etc. abilities. But really, even that's too much to ask from EAxis - and it's still the easy/lazy/FAIL way out. In fact, I think that a bork pool for Spore expansions would be hilarious. And probably depressing.
Bloody hell.
Faizah:
But, why? It was an uphill battle convincing my 12 brother to play all the stages (but in the end he had no choice, that's needed to unlock future stages) and, I just don't get it. Why wouldn't you want to play them all? Cell and creature are my two favourite stages, including space.
As to the topic, is anyone here honestly surprised that there'll be expansions for Spore? In fact, didn't they already confirm that there would be, even before the game itself was close to release?
EsotericPolarBear:
Quote from: Faizah on 2008 October 14, 12:58:33
But, why? It was an uphill battle convincing my 12 brother to play all the stages (but in the end he had no choice, that's needed to unlock future stages) and, I just don't get it. Why wouldn't you want to play them all? Cell and creature are my two favourite stages, including space.
As to the topic, is anyone here honestly surprised that there'll be expansions for Spore? In fact, didn't they already confirm that there would be, even before the game itself was close to release?
Knowing they'll come is one thing. That's just a natural extension of the life of a game that's been around for a while. Officially announcing development one month after a game releases is just greedy and insulting. That's basically admitting that you withheld features from the release version so you could make an expansion.
raptureswild:
Agreed. At least let us enjoy the game you had THREE YEARS to finish before you start telling us you're going to sell us more crap the game will be "incomplete" without. It pisses me off that they basically kept these features out so that they could milk more than $50 out of us.
I don't like this game enough to buy the expansions yet and no one I know who has played this game thinks it was worth the $50 they shelled out. So hopefully this will backfire in their money-grubbing little faces.
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