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Written on: January 31, 2008 by xDreamache

75 Comments

Maxis has outsourced spore to EA for a reason. They wanted spore to be on all consoles but sony and nintendo make companies pay to use their games compiler software (for xbox anybody can get it and make homebrew aplications) but EA already has all the compilers due to ther nature of being a publisher. Maxis sent it to ea so the didnt have to buy it.

yeh like im not saying dont buy it im saying lets rebel like right now over the internet hah so they "think" about it and maybe they will acutally believe it and release it sooner haha that would be kewl

I would have to disagree with you SilverRogue. They know it's going to be a good game, they have 4 MILLION preorders. People that have played with the editor absolutely love it, and if over 50% of the people at least wait a single WEEK, it'll show as a defiant stand to EA. I'm not saying anyone will do it... but I'm telling you right now, that I'm going to stand by my decision. In fact, I'll even post a link to a picture of me buying the game 1 week later, with the receipt showing the date.

To DISGUSTIPATED: He, not she. ____________To sordid: I can prove it, but releasing that info isn't legal. Do you want a screenshot of my pay stub or something? :-D

While I would certainly love to give EA a good kick in the shins, the people who are saying we should delay buying the game for a month are operating under the delusion that you can teach a corporation anything. Imagine, for example, the Pointy-Haired Boss from Dilbert. Now assume he's in charge of EA. The first month a product is released, nobody buys it. He's more likely to blame the engineers for not making a good product than he is to blame marketing for delaying it and pissing everyone off. If you do do the 1-month delay thing and EA notices it, odds are the end result from it isn't going to hurt the people you're aiming for.

Well first off, we are different people!! hahaa. Second, I never said I woulnt buy the game. I said I agree with what MatchNL said and that I would wait at least a month to buy it. That way, all of this huge profit they were expecting would fall into the next quarter, which would seriously fuck up with EA. Will Wright and the crew still get their share, but EA learns its lesson.

Amazon is right, de-nile is wrong...you know you're not going to get enough support and end up buying spore.

Okay, all of you. You will buy spore. You're saying that you will be in a game store, right in front of spore, and you just WON'T BUY IT? I don't think so. Sure, you'll all talk on the internet, but you're lying to yourself.

THATS what ive been saying i dont think we should buy spore seriously F*** that

I think it would be fun, i dont see this happening.... I also think that DISGUSTIPATED and MatchNL are the same person but hey! thats just me... MatchNL can you prove you worked for EA and that your info is reliable???

I am with MatchNL! Fuck EA! Spore is a brilliant piece of art, sure to be Will Wright's masterpiece. Seeing how there's no way to stop these bastards from delaying the game anymore, I say we make them pay. Its bullshit. Plain and simple. They cant get away with taking advantage of us! Therefore, I agree with MatchNL, and seeing how he (she?) was a former employee, I think he (she?) knows whats going on. EA, you wont see my money for SPORE anytime soon.

Maybe we should find something else to obsess about until Spore does come out.

Wow, there has not been a community grind lately, I need something else to complain about! Just Kidding I like the grinds!

"We couldn't be happier to bring Spore to the Mac at the same time as the PC version. Spore is a highly creative game and I look forward to seeing what the players come up with to fill the universe they design," said Will Wright, Chief Designer of Spore. So, it's all Apple's fault why Spore wont be released in march. They're holding out until the mac version is finished. I hate you apple.

I am absolutely not going to buy this game. I'm done. F*ck you EA. It's not worth it. I've been waiting for 3+ years. If you can find the last delay announcement, you'll notice that I said if it's delayed one more time, I'm taking a stand. I worked for EA and I know for a fact that the game was scheduled to be completed before the end of March 08. This was 5 months ago, thus "fairly" recent. The BEST thing that could possibly happen on the actual release of the game, was the NOT A SINGLE PERSON purchase the game for at exactly one month. This would be the only way to get back at EA. This game is expected in pre-orders alone to exceed 4 million copies. If you can hold out for 3 years, you can hold out for one more month. Imagine how screwed EA's financial department would be after anticipating tens of millions of dollars and not getting any sales. Sure, they'd probably get the initial cash from the stores buying the games to sell, but there would be no restocking of the item for a full month. Who's with me?

its a marketing trick You delay the game to increase anticipation and thus boost sales when you finnaly release it. this only can work to a certain exten before people get too bored and spend their money on something elese and can't buy the game when it comes out. As for the bitcchers LEARN YOUR DAMN ARSES SOME PATIENCE!!! GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT.

Every delay is making me more and more likely not to buy this game and pirate it instead. This was going to be the first game purchase I have made in a while, but for every delay I am taking 10 dollars off the game I am willing to pay. I don't know of any game that I have ever wanted that has been held in front of my face for so long that a delay can no longer make my any more angry. All I can say know is Fuck you EA.. they wonder why their stock is going down, all the potential investors are waiting for fucking spore!

SiverRogue, I absolutely agree. Waiting_4_Spore, If I want to bitch and be in denial, then I will be!!!! Spore is coming out in March no matter what anybody says!!!!!!!! **eye twitches** **pupils dialate**

You must answer me these questions three, then the release date ye see!

What's so frustrating about all of this is the bait-and-switch that they keep doing. I'd much rather hear them say "We're not going to tell you the release date yet" than this nonsense about "You'll get the release date at the end of January!", and then giving us riddles and vagueness.

People, stop bitching and appreciate this juicy tidbit of news. The game is NOT coming out in march, despite what your mother and/or amazon has told you. The game is coming out when EA decides to release the game and that's that, so just get on with your lives until it comes out. Post-Scriptum (OHLOLFANCYWORDS); Holidays mean winter holidays. Post-Post-Scriptum: To those people who say they are not going to buy the game: You will, despite what you say now. Trust me.

it never was going to come out march 3 never was not in history was that said from will wright or ea

senselessrambler101: As i said it on the forums before... I think they know when it would come out and they did know it when it will come out.... But they didnt told it to us be couse they think it would destroy our intrest to spore if they would say 2008... I mean they say 2008 in 2004....

didnt think i should get my hopes up. but now i really wont. i understand how they want to make it good... but seriously... this is a little too long.

fuck. need i say more.