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Inside Spore's Creature Creator

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robwright   06-19-2008 at 11:54:59 PM

Article by Kevin Parrish

EA and Maxis recently released the Spore Creature Creator, which allows gamers to make their own life forms and get a glimpse of Will Wright's upcoming title Spore. Tom's Games takes a look at the Creature Creator and makes some of its own creations.

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infornography42   06-20-2008 at 01:23:06 PM
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I've been playing with the free demo for the past couple of days. Its fun. I'm considering picking up the full thing but I won't buy anything using EA's online distribution system (because it sucks and I don't trust it) and I won't buy anything with enforced limited installs, that is one step too far in the war against piracy so I need to look into what kind of DRM EA would force onto a $10 game.

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Flakes   06-20-2008 at 03:09:16 PM
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yea im in the same boat as you infornography.. ive created some pretty cute/funny monsters and im looking forward to this game, but before i do anything i need to know the kind of DRM involved.

 

btw why was there no picture of the monster that you at toms games created? would love to see what you came up with.


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spuddyt   06-20-2008 at 03:11:14 PM
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i'm planning on pirating spore.... I will also buy it


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Flakes   06-20-2008 at 03:25:36 PM
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it had crossed my mind, but if you pirate Spore they will say that the game didnt do well because of piracy instead of, the game didnt do well because of our intrusive DRM.

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STEMNIN   06-20-2008 at 03:58:30 PM
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Does this demo install that securom crap like the bioshock demo did? (I don't think I ever removed it, did they make a tool yet?)

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spuddyt   06-20-2008 at 04:52:26 PM
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Flakes wrote :

it had crossed my mind, but if you pirate Spore they will say that the game didnt do well because of piracy instead of, the game didnt do well because of our intrusive DRM.


and they will know this how? assuming I buy it as well (oh wait they won't, but they'll say it anyway)

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Flakes   06-20-2008 at 04:56:10 PM
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thats being short sighted, if you buy it and pirate it, it still is a +1 to piracy.

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exfileme   06-20-2008 at 05:53:49 PM
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For some reason Rob and Travis never inserted Bubbaloo's YouTube clip. You can see my monster madness here:

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Bubbaloo's page can be accessed here.


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warezme   06-23-2008 at 09:54:06 PM
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"Spore is reminiscent of The Sims , relying on character style rather than sporting heavy visuals"

hmmm, explains why it can be played even on Macs....

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ledzeprules   06-23-2008 at 11:11:06 PM
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i'm planning on pirating spore.... I will also buy it


why would you pirate it if you already had the actual game?

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dtq   06-24-2008 at 12:48:17 PM
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ledzeprules wrote :

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i'm planning on pirating spore.... I will also buy it


why would you pirate it if you already had the actual game?



Ive had to do that with a few games, to get them to work in vista. Where incompatible drm was preventing me from using software I paid for. A simple "pirate" no-cd patch or other "piracy patch" can work wanders for non vista compatible games.

Ive paid for the games, but in order to actually make use of what Ive paid for I have to resort to the tools of the pirates, the company who I supported with my cash cant be bothered to make them work for their paying customers...

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