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EA's (Limited) Creature Creator For Spore Released

Posted by timothy on from the this-spore-won't-reproduce dept.

JimboFBX writes "The Spore creature creator has been released. It's a limited demo, but it lets you make a full creature and test drive it a little. It gives some insight on what you'll be able to do with your creatures. Personally, the novelty already wore off within 10 minutes. From what I can tell, the full creature creator is a separate purchase from the actual game. Gotta love EA." An anonymous reader points to a thread at More Awesome Than You alleging that this creature creator also contains some phone-home features which might be cause for concern.

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  1. About the payware version by Mascot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Has anybody seen any logical explanation for charging for the full version? The entire idea of releasing the creature creator is to have a population of creatures ready for when the game is released, as far as I've gathered. If so it makes no sense to limit it.

    Is it as simple as "we think we can get a few bucks off of this so let's charge for it", or is there some other reason?

    1. Re:About the payware version by k_187 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I would also imagine that charging $10 for it allows them to easily weed out all the people making penis head creatures and uploading them.

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  2. Typical... by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Legit version has malware-ish features. Warezed version will certainly be clean. Do they WANT people to pirate or what?!

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  3. Why buy? by zuggy40 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a perfect example of what I like to call "BioShock Conundrum" (since that was my first experience). Why buy when pirating is a more enjoyable and pleasant experience?

  4. Re:Huh? by azuredrake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some people opt on principle not to break laws. The above information would be useful for them to know, if they value both lawfulness and pragmatism and are trying to make a decision.

    I also work in the game industry, so people talking about pirating games does tend to piss me off. If you don't like the product, simply don't buy it - that is your message. Pretending your piracy is noble because you "stick it to the man" is a convenient invention to assuage the periodic pangs of morality which sometimes occur in the human animal.

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