For those of you who are familiar to Spore or have played Spore, you have probably stopped playing it. Now if you blow the dust of the cover and disk, you won't find many people there. I am one of the handful of people who still play Spore. I just wonder WHY? WHY AREN'T PEOPLE PLAYING SPORE ANYMORE? It is quite a shame that Spore is completely dead now.
Why would you ever want to keep playing a game abandoned by its own creator, where power comes from the allmighty MPNers, such as Parkaboy and the like. Why would you ever want to keep playing a game that required you to live in the USA just to buy a damn shake of Dr. Pepper for that shiny robot parts that everyone used and everyone that didn't, wanted to use. Why would you ever want to play a game that had double the bugs and glitches of its player database?
Spore was an awesome game, back in '08, '09 and '10. Since Fall 2010, where the power vaccuum was taking place, nobody did actually care about Spore. EA, Will Wright, everyone, abandoned it. They saw a reincarnation of it's name in Darkspore, with little to no success. There is no reason to play a game that is more dead than a mausoleum.
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" Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. " - Bertolt Brecht
Because everyone got bored of it even with the "Creepy and Cute" and "Galactic Adventures pack." Yeah, the game is still great, but it's old. Darkspore was also a huge disappointment to me...
It got old. There's only so many things you ca do with limb-sculpting and so many adventures in a series a man can write.
Not to mention the absence of EA/Maxis in even the smallest of degree sentences the game to rot and players started abusing its online functions for arbitrary grabs at fame. The developers stopped patching it and left the game incomplete and rife with bugs and glitches. At the same time the community began to fall apart and fall into diaspora. A number of forces arised to fill the power/influence vacuum of EAxis which in turn created a small community base that held all of the influence and used it to muscle certain unwanted people out - legitimately good creators and other real fun community leaders - to favor this small few who were either in a position of power before hand, or who learned to abuse the system to make their own gains (alts and the MPN).
It got old. There's only so many things you ca do with limb-sculpting and so many adventures in a series a man can write.
Not to mention the absence of EA/Maxis in even the smallest of degree sentences the game to rot and players started abusing its online functions for arbitrary grabs at fame. The developers stopped patching it and left the game incomplete and rife with bugs and glitches. At the same time the community began to fall apart and fall into diaspora. A number of forces arised to fill the power/influence vacuum of EAxis which in turn created a small community base that held all of the influence and used it to muscle certain unwanted people out - legitimately good creators and other real fun community leaders - to favor this small few who were either in a position of power before hand, or who learned to abuse the system to make their own gains (alts and the MPN).
Don't forget the Community Showcase section.
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" Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. " - Bertolt Brecht
I've never been to Community Showcase so I would never know.
All I know is that RP isn't worth the trouble, GD's gone down the drain. There's nothing worthwhile in SnS. And having left I have no other reason to visit the other sections.
This is under the presumption BB and Slime wouldn't notice me and throw me on a rotating suspension because I post pony.
I will always be a fan of spore it may be an old game but i still like it
I find it sad that its creator abandoned it
the same thing may happen to minecraft too
EA, give us ALL a favor, and give the spore rights to a company that will agree to continue to fix those bugs, BUT PLEASE GOD, DON'T LET THEM GET RID OF THE FLOATING MUSTACHES GLITcH!Look back at Halo CE, it is still getting updates, because Bungie CARES for it! But for EA, you can EXPECT them abandoning good games!
The game wasn't what EA first shown which was a much more robust and deep game that co-alings of what we have now. What was released is shallow to say the least in every aspect the create a creature is the most robust system in the game while each stage just seems to get worse and worse as time goes on.
Spore is, to my knowledge, the only game of its kind. It is the only game where you can pretty much create whatever the heck you want; but no internal programming to make your creations do whatever you want. In that sense, even with the technology that created it, Spore could've been so much more even before it was created. I remember the demo of '06 where wright showed off the game, and it looked SO much nicer than the version we have today. It had features that I wish were in spore today. For example, the dragging feature was pretty freakin awesome, knowing you could take your predator and drag a carcass where you wanted it. Also, the way Spore chose creatures to put into the world was much better than it is now as well.
My guess is, by 2018, Maxis will either announce the fact that they've been working on it, or release the new game that year. That's my prediction.
All in all, Spore is now a small group of players still creating things and still surviving. The hackers have vanished; probably because they got bored.
I still play it on occasions... just not with other people. Shock, I know, but I found a way to play it Single Player.
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My avatar-Madison Gotha. She knows various weapons, she's a mage/sage, and is somewhat immortal. Madison has the capability of taming and communicating monsters, a genetic trait passed down by her father. 26 physically, 1400-something mentally, and a Lofty Peakian/Zenithian mix. Doesn't really like being called an elf and hates being called human..
I might be Moderator, but don't bother treating me too special. And don't make tons of Ban Hammer jokes, please. Also, I'm an Off-Topic only Mod. Don't ask me to lock a thread or something if it's not in the off-topic
Did they shut down the spore servers or something? I tried to log on because nostalgia, and I couldn't no matter what password I put in. And every time I tried going to the help section, it 404ed.
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May the bringer of peace be with you.
If you insist on addressing me by name just say Adsper. It's annoying when people say my full out username. "Oh hey AdswordTheBaws54763721" ~Mount and Blade
Did they shut down the spore servers or something? I tried to log on because nostalgia, and I couldn't no matter what password I put in. And every time I tried going to the help section, it 404ed.
US servers are the only ones that still work. Try going to spore.com with the planet and choosing US.
And to everyone else, Spore still has a community. It's small, but it's there.
Spore was an awesome game, back in '08, '09 and '10. Since Fall 2010, where the power vaccuum was taking place, nobody did actually care about Spore. EA, Will Wright, everyone, abandoned it. They saw a reincarnation of it's name in Darkspore, with little to no success. There is no reason to play a game that is more dead than a mausoleum.
Not to mention the absence of EA/Maxis in even the smallest of degree sentences the game to rot and players started abusing its online functions for arbitrary grabs at fame. The developers stopped patching it and left the game incomplete and rife with bugs and glitches. At the same time the community began to fall apart and fall into diaspora. A number of forces arised to fill the power/influence vacuum of EAxis which in turn created a small community base that held all of the influence and used it to muscle certain unwanted people out - legitimately good creators and other real fun community leaders - to favor this small few who were either in a position of power before hand, or who learned to abuse the system to make their own gains (alts and the MPN).
My DeviantArt, so sexy
Don't forget the Community Showcase section.
All I know is that RP isn't worth the trouble, GD's gone down the drain. There's nothing worthwhile in SnS. And having left I have no other reason to visit the other sections.
This is under the presumption BB and Slime wouldn't notice me and throw me on a rotating suspension because I post pony.
My DeviantArt, so sexy
I find it sad that its creator abandoned it
the same thing may happen to minecraft too
I am still a fan of Spore, playing it every day.
EA, you are the most dissapointing company in the world. Who would abandon the best game in the world.
By the way, my spore name is Weetile123.
#BAUM4EXILE2014
:^)
HELP CAPSLOCK KEY FELL OFF IT SWITCHES ON AND OFF, HELP PLS.
Praise be to Spode.
My guess is, by 2018, Maxis will either announce the fact that they've been working on it, or release the new game that year. That's my prediction.
All in all, Spore is now a small group of players still creating things and still surviving. The hackers have vanished; probably because they got bored.
Spore
is
not
dead.
We are here.
We are waiting.
I think I found something slightly...
... insane.
but i know why not allot of people play the game is VAEY glitchy
Well... EA did shut down Maxis, the company that made Spore.
Check out this mod, which now has a 1.8 brother to the 1.7 version.
Did they shut down the spore servers or something? I tried to log on because nostalgia, and I couldn't no matter what password I put in. And every time I tried going to the help section, it 404ed.
May the bringer of peace be with you.
If you insist on addressing me by name just say Adsper. It's annoying when people say my full out username. "Oh hey AdswordTheBaws54763721" ~Mount and Blade
US servers are the only ones that still work. Try going to spore.com with the planet and choosing US.
And to everyone else, Spore still has a community. It's small, but it's there.
I mean, i play it every now and then