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Written on: March 31, 2008 by Alterego

43 Comments

noooo i wanted to pay only 60$ now i will want to send them 1000000$ and go bankrupt noooooooooooooooooo

WWWWWWWRRRAAAWNNNGG!!

i think Xbox marketplace is gunna be happy >:(

thank god

yeah, and the spore site posted a correction, the only in-game stuff they will sell will be expansion packs.

They updated the artice. Read it again. There's an apology at the bottom. Everybody take a deep breath and relax...

I hope that the spore store will be sort of like how you will up date your game by bringing in the new features that the developers have thought up. Maybe what they mean about the spore store is that auto-updating thing that they were talking about in the videos and that you can pick and choise what new things you want to import into your game.

Dont need to buy... check out Spore website

IT WAS A LIE GO TO Spore.com ''we do not have plans to sell individual parts via micro-transactions''. http://www.spore.com/press_033108.php

ah crappity crap!! Dan the idea to charge us for a game that charges us extra to play it to the fullest!

well i think unless they're really good parts i'll stick with the originals. my creatures will all be old compared to everyone else because the newer generations will be completely made of the bought parts and i'll be walking around with all the originals lol.

Boba, You can morph the already existing parts available, and get many different sizes from that part. If you look at the creatures in so many screenshots, many of them have the same type of mouth or hands, just bigger,smaller,fatter or thinner. You can't make new parts, the spore store will have new looking mouths and wings etc. to buy and morph.

I buyz zem all so i can be coolzer and have special partz!

Oh please, if all the faggot ass nerds out there can vomit 15$ a month to play as SexyGnome14 in WoW, then you guys can, if you want, pay 1$ for an extra Spore Part. The game will cost the same, and it will come with all the Pre-Discussed/Demonstrated Features. And Spore Sharing is FREE! These "Premium Parts" are just little extras, made by Maxis, that you can buy if you'd like to further customize SPORE. Stop being a bunch of whiny faggots!

@ Obsidian (aka W4S) - I've been watching every available video of Spore since '05. If you're telling me that you can't make your own stuff then that's just ignorant of all the creature editor videos showing the shaping and morphing of creatures.

...I am feeling..."angry" right now. This is outrageous! We wait for 3-5 years, taking delay after delay, bad news after bad news. The only good news we have ever had is further improvements to the game and a demo - "Improvements" being steps towards what the game should be like! OUT. RAGE. OUS. Everybody send hatemail spam to EA game ¬¬.

Why is everybody making such a big deal out of a couple extra bucks for a couple extra parts? Besides, I'm sure the parts will be extremely awesome and worth a buck or two!

lets not get all heated up about this... it could very well be a poor choice of words by the author of the article: "There is also a "Spore Store" built into the game, iTunes Store style. In addition to the asynchronously downloaded assets from other players, the store allows players to purchase additional creature parts (and presumably other things, for other editors) via micropayments." he may have very well misunderstood the concept of buying parts with dna points.... but we dont know for sure

What I wonder is, what if someone bought a new parts for their creatures and someone who didn't buy the parts wants to download that creature with the bought parts, what would happen? Will they not be able to download that creature because of those exclusive parts? This is all way too confusing. I think they should at least do something like the Wii Points or WoW time cards to add points to our Spore account that could be used for parts. I wouldn't mind that all that much.

Wait, surely someone from xSpore could upload a new part and let everyone else Download it...?

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

If they release modding tools you might be able to make your own parts. But if they are doing the Spore store they might not.

Lucky bastard, he got to try out the editor. : P

First of all, Boba, you can't make new parts... =.= Second of all, this is just in case you get bored of spore's parts, (you heretic) you can just go buy more. And I highly doubt each part will cost $1, more like $3 for a certain theme.

or maybe gamasutra actually made a mistake of some kind and misinterpreted the spore store system... maybe they meant pay with dna poitns or whatever...

who probably wont buy spore? I probably wont. major TURNOFF. Way to go EA. now spore fans can pay for the expansion packs, AND extra parts (because we know the basic game wont come with many cool ones)

just dont buy parts lol i mean its just a addition doesnt mean you have to buy it..... im not

EPIC FAILS EA FAILS

OMG IT WAS HERE IN TORONTO?!:O OMG AND I LIVE NEAR TORONTO!!! OMG IM ANGRY I MISSED THE ONLY CHANCE OF SPORE I COULD HAVE PLAYED!!! >:( I hate myself-.- anyways I think its a good idea for buying new parts but it would be better if it was in an expansion. In an expansion they should put more parts the ability for an underwater creature or fly to another galaxy:)

So expected. Fucking greedy EA... -_-

While I hate the idea of purchasing creature parts, I don't really care too much. Doesn't this just mean that those who are too lazy/uncreative to make their own parts will have to pay to have stuff premade for them? I find that to be justified.

Why can't they just add them new body parts for free? ^-^

I don't like it as much as the next guy but I don't see where it will be presumeably $1-$2 per body part...that would be rediculous. I think it would be more like $1-$2 for a few body parts bundled together, like how you get bundle packs through the Xbox Live for game content.

goodness, another addition to the growing greediness of EA. Dont they have enough money?

wouldnt it be better just to put the money into a card like xboxlive like 600 pionts on the card and u buy it for like six bucks and use the points to buy them. (:() just saying

Well this suckeds ,_,

Fucking idiots, THE EXTRA PARTS ARE OPTIONAL! You DON'T have to buy them! IMO this is great, this means that after we get bored with the original parts we can simply buy new ones. I just hope that they aren't being complete assholes and will not be charging more than $1 each.

._. this is teh sucks X_X

Where does it say anything about the price being $1-$2 per part? im guessing they will sell them in packs and it wont cost much per part.

Option to buy extra parts sounds like a good thing to me. I dont see why everyone is complaining about this. Would you rather they just made the initial game and never added anything to it? Time = Money and it takes a lot of both to make more content.

OH KOOL THEY CHARGE US for new parts!!!! How is that going to end >