Second Spore expansion already in the works

PC News | Creatures in space.

Hot on the heels of yesterday's expansion pack news, Electronic Arts has also revealed that a second expansion pack is in development for their creature creating title Spore.

The second expansion pack will give players the opportunity to expand on the game's Space Age by letting players beam down their creatures from their spaceships in an effort to explore through new planets. While on one of the many new planet's that is set to join the world of Spore, players will be able to send their creature on missions of discovery.

The expansion will also come equipped with the 'Adventure Creator' which will allow players to create and share their own custom missions online with other players of the Spore universe.

Currently no release date is attached to the project.

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17 Comments

Jarrod

3 years ago

Nice that they are adding planet-side missions, but we could already explore the planets by beaming down a hologram.

And while this may only be the second expansion pack officially announced, there are likely about a thousand more in the pipes.

kalidav

3 years ago

So this expansion is free right? Adding features that should 've been in the original game?

G3ck0

3 years ago

Haha, they charge for bits of furniture on The Sims, you think THIS would be free?

Lord Haart

3 years ago

Again, I can't imagine why EA complains about piracy when they fail to deliver a complete product and then sell the completed work for even more money. If they tried that with commercial software, they'd be up to their elbows in lawsuits, or at least dead broke.

Skiller

3 years ago

Lord Haart wrote

Are you crazy? That's exactly how large software companies make their money, they make an awesome fully functional and stable product, then tear out features and introduce a few minor but annoying bugs so they can charge companies $$$ for upgrades or the latest version. If you released a fully functional, full featured product there'd be no reason for customers to buy subsequent versions of your software meaning that you'll lose alot of easy cash flow.

A friend of my parents works at a software company and aparently deliberately puts in bugs into his software so he can impress his clients when they ring up about the problem by driving out there and fixing the problem in under 30 min, and he collects a big payment every time it happens. His clients all think he is the greatest because he fixes all their problems very quickly so he gets lots of buisness, good word of mouth and a steady cash flow, but those problems would never have existed and he'd probably be broke and out of buisness if he didn't create them himself.

Sin Ogaris

3 years ago

That's how pretty much the World works. Same deal with electronics, they're basically designed in such a way that they will fail after a certain period of time. Why is this? Because if they didn't break down, people wouldn't upgrade, therefore the companies would go broke (happened to a lot of appliance manufacturers during the 80's/90's, they built their products to last... problem was people were hanging onto their 1970's washer twenty years later because it was still working like the day it was bought) so they deliberately install components which build up wear and tear. Once the thing dies in, 3, 5, 6, etc years then the person will either pay to get it fixed (in which case the company gets money from parts sales) or just up and buy a new one.

Sinthesys

3 years ago

Shameless consumerism. Although I'll never agree with such an underhanded practice of intentionally making a product faulty in order to collect subsequent payments by fixing it, I think that's a little different from Sin's example of appliances, which are made with cheap parts that will eventually break, not with pre-broken parts that you won't discover after buying it and have to call for repair once you finally find one function doesn't work the way it should.

Also, I think if someone commissions you to create some software, intentionally building bugs into a program is illegal. Something about a duty to act in the clients best interests. I guess it would be hard to prove though...

Lord Haart

3 years ago

Skiller wrote

A friend of my parents works at a software company and aparently deliberately puts in bugs into his software so he can impress his clients when they ring up about the problem by driving out there and fixing the problem in under 30 min, and he collects a big payment every time it happens. His clients all think he is the greatest because he fixes all their problems very quickly so he gets lots of buisness, good word of mouth and a steady cash flow, but those problems would never have existed and he'd probably be broke and out of buisness if he didn't create them himself.

That's also ethically wrong, and there may even be legal ramifications in the contract. And with large-scale software, good luck putting in your own bugs and counting on those being the ones the consumer finds - there will be plenty of bugs you DIDN'T anticipate, and you will look like a right moron then. I know people think that "this is the way of the world", but that's only because people put up with it. And the effects are devastating - take LCDs for example - did you know that the world is running out of components for these? There's less than 5 years left of LCD screens - if these had been built to last then we'd be in a much better position.

Sinthesys

3 years ago

Yeah, ethically speaking, that's pretty damn bad. But anyway, I think in 5-10 years time, there'll probably be a replacement technology for LCDs anyway.

Jellyfish

3 years ago

Sinthesys wrote

Yeah, ethically speaking, that's pretty damn bad. But anyway, I think in 5-10 years time, there'll probably be a replacement technology for LCDs anyway.

-2 weeks. CSIRO came up with a LASER based picture drawing system for televisions, Mitsubishi? I think recently released two TVs based on the technology, blows everything out of the water with almost CRT like contrast and real reds as opposed to orange like LCDs and Plasmas do.

Sinthesys

3 years ago

Wow, that sounds awesome. And doubly so, as it means that Australian technological research is really taking off. Maybe one day we'll export more than just raw materials.

3mt

3 years ago

How about OLEDs? Or are they also based on LCDs? Their amazing contrast ratio of something like 1:1000 000 is huge.

Jellyfish

3 years ago

OLEDs don't last very long, are damaged irreparably when introduced to moisture and are pretty expensive still.

oracle128

3 years ago

I think a recurring sentiment here is that developers shouldn't release a game unless it has every single feature possible, lest they be accused of deliberately holding back features in order to make more money. In other words, the game has infinite features, and takes an equal amount of time to develop.

Luckily, we already have games that are pretty much like that. They come with user interfaces that could only be fitting for such a complex game with infinite features. They're more commonly known as programming languages. If what you're after is a game that doesn't miss out on any possible features, learn how to play these games today!

Lord Haart

3 years ago

No. You're not even reading the comments.

When something is promised, and subsequently not delivered, that is a betrayal of trust. That's my issue.

Skiller

3 years ago

Lord Haart wrote

Skiller wrote

Yer I totally agree, it's wrong and just shouldn't be done, but when you live in a capitalist society this is just what happens, morality caves in to greed