EA's (Limited) Creature Creator For Spore Released

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.

Comments

Re:About the payware version

[Daimanta]

You've answered your own question. People are willing to pay for both the creature editor and the game. So EA lets them and rakes in the cash.

Re:About the payware version

[k_187]

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.

SecuROM

[FnordX]

The "free" demo does also come bundled with SecuROM, so, downloader beware.

Also, it includes about 8 items out of each of the menus. If you're wanting to, you can pay the full price for the demo and get everything, and then proceed to upload your content to help out the developers by allowing them to have content ready when the game launches.

So, basically, you're paying EA to make their game world better, and they don't even trust you enough to give you access to the limited edition of the demo without some pretty intrusive spyware. And EA wonders why they get such a bad rep?

WHEN PENIS MONSTERS ATTACK

[the brown guy]

Gotta love the penis monsters....nothing beats getting your entire civilization wiped out by being that rock with their cocks out....

<a href="http://kotaku.com/5017350/when-spore-penis-monsters-attack">When spore penis monsters attack</a>, you can't beat the title.

Re:WHEN PENIS MONSTERS ATTACK

[Radish03]

This news story was in the Sci/Tech section of Google News this morning for me. Definitely did a triple take upon seeing the words "Penis Monster" in the headline.

Re:Typical...

[cephah]

I have never experienced any negative consequences of using warezed versions of ga--
Dear cephah,
Your pants' key from her bedroom!
JUST FOLLOW THIS WAY>>
Sincerely, egor chao-li.
--games, so I can't really relate.

On "Phoning home"

[Suddenly_Dead]

The game does utilize an internet connection for legitimate purposes. The banner at the start seems to be loaded off the internet (advertising the full game). There's a section in the "Sporepedia" that has links to purchase the game, advertisements for Spore merchandise and other things which I would think are loaded dynamically off the net. And the game of course lets you create and upload creations.

More, you know, evidence of malicious intent would be nice before people start running around like the sky is falling.

sporn

[Dillenger69]

We're being inundated with penis monsters.

It's a new category: sporn

yay for innovation.

IT COUNTS AS A PREORDER

[azuredrake]

Hey guys,

I just wanted to point out what nobody has said (for North America, anyway) yet: If you buy the Creature Stand Alone, it counts as a preorder for Spore, in that if you buy spore at the EA online download thingy you get the CSA's price back off your purchase.

Now I'm not naive enough to think that that's going to stop most readers here from just warezing it anyway, but breaking the law is breaking the law; so for those of you who want to do it legit, this will save you money.