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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. Re:About the payware version by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. 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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  3. On "Phoning home" by Suddenly_Dead · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. IT COUNTS AS A PREORDER by azuredrake · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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