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He sunk years and years of his life into Spore only to have EA sweep the legs out from under it at launch with horribly broken DRM. Instead of dealing with the
by adamhowell 18y ago
He sunk years and years of his life into Spore only to have EA sweep the legs out from under it at launch with horribly broken DRM. Instead of dealing with the corporate idiots he's moving on.
- blasdel 18y agoSpore did plenty to suck all on it's own, by being a set of disjointed non-games that misrepresent evolution (your traits don't matter for survival!)
- ensignavenger 18y agoExcept that EA has invested in SFC, and it looks like EA will develop/publish video games based on their work- so it isn't like Wright is moving on from EA totally. I haven't heard Wright complain too loudly about the DRM, I bet if he had, EA would have done whatever was necessary to appease him.
- adamhowell 18y agoHe says in a Kotaku interview (can't link, on iPhone) that it was something he should have "tuned into more" and "a corporate decision."
- ajkirwin 18y agoNo, what broke Spore was the fact that all the really good, technical bits of evolution were ripped out at the last minute to make the game easier to EA could sell more copies to kids.
- Goronmon 18y agoThis pretty much sums it up. Spore was such a disappointment. The first phase was awesome, lots of fun. Then it just turned into a super-simplified RTS with no depth. I enjoyed the game immensely at first, but it just kept getting worse the longer you played.