What Happened to Spore? 

My game always crashed at Tribal stage, so I never experienced past that. And because of the code requirement, I couldn’t move the game onto a stronger computer to see if it would work,

So as Dark Spore and we all know what happen to that game (',_',) RIP DARK SPORE

Greg Sanders the didn’t really like the cell stage.

Spore is still my favourite game, also Galactic Adventures is Awesome

ThePcGamer well the cell stage is supposed to be easy as it's the basic tutorial stage which is why so many people didn't like it

I actually really liked spore

Spore is one of my favorite games actually

I miss spore (;_;)

What do you mean it had potential? The game was fun.

Spore is still a very popular game. Spore 2 maybe someday will be released, but I'm kinda ok as it is rigth now

EA kills everything

Well the Aquatic Stage wasn’t surpose to be a stage at all, it would have been a phase in the Creature stage. I wish it would be in the game, it would make the game more creative.

@@JamesTheFoxeArt Didn't DarkedgeTV make that?

TinyTim well she created a adventure of the Aquatic stage and not the one that was surposed to be in the game

@@JamesTheFoxeArt Didn't she also make one that was supposed to be what the aquatic stage would've been like in 2010?

EA is why we can't have nice things.

I actually liked Spore, but It probably could have been much better without E.A. interfearing.

It actually was not EAs fault. More of the studio wanted to make a cartoony version of evolution so they went down that path rather than a realistic evolution game. While I also hate EA this was not their fault.

Well, it didn't get any better from there tho

TheCyanSpartan It most certainly was EA's fault that Spore is basically no longer being supported. A cartoony version of evolution is what keeps the user in. The creature creator appeal and community are what get users engaged in the games creative aspects. That highlight is what keeps players playing. Conceptual evolutionary aspects and simulation may have been what sold the game and hooked some users in but the creativity and fun aspects of the creature creating is what keeps people here. EA stopped supporting the game, server errors and Origin glitches as Direct X changes to new comp models kept players out as Direct X was no longer accessible as a standalone program to download and install/uninstall for a more streamlined process since back in 2008 you had to download direct X in order to even play spore and now you cannot download direct X as it is usually included now, and it wasn't until 2017 that they actually had full support for players to re-download the game properly in origin since they removed spore from the main pages and options, you had to search for it and contact support. Before then, contacting support was a joke. Maxis stopped creating content for spore because they were done for the most part with their vision of the game and all of their ideas for furthering the franchise failed one after another because of their focus on the least appealing part of Spore. The Stages after the evolutionary creature stage. Any civilization stage of the game may as well not exist since anyone who plays it will realize that Maxis poured more time and money into the creature creating part of the game into evolution into land and brain development and the rest of the game falls into nothing. There is no endgame appeal. That's where Maxis is at fault. From a design standpoint, They covered evolution perfectly fine. It's civilization simulation where they dropped the ball. This game Stops at the end of the creature stage and becomes an impossibly boring mess from the tribal stage onward. An opinion of my own but I'm sharing it. Still, Spore isn't "dead", it's just in community limbo, where the developers are keeping the doors open and letting the community continue to enjoy the product but the future of the game is non existent for now as they have "given up" on creating real content for the franchise. People are still creating and continue to enjoy the creature creating options available to them. As a longtime user since October of 2008 even I'm still having a fun time creating. People come and go, hiatuses and long absences are always a thing, but the game only ends when the community stops playing or when Maxis finally shuts the doors.

I'd hope a Spore 2 comes out. Would like to see longer stages, such as longer time in creature phase since it feels a tad too short (and its the best part) and better controls which are wonky at times and infuriating in other times. Cant tell you how many times an Epic killed me cause I couldn't navigate a simple hill or got stick.

(As mission control on my home planet would say,) Pistashurn ah pistashurn! Signa flerg nerg! Oba! Oh, grebshnob! Oh gundingee harpisquam....

Bava lava squeeb!

The Conservative The God That Will Come is part of the spore lore, is the other god that the Spore creatures pray apart Spode, so it's you who did not get the inside joke... sooo r/whoooosh

Maybe not a Spore 2 as EA will ruin this game again, but something from a different developer - like it was with SimCity and Cities Skyline.

Dont forget a game still in development: Thrive A game that has been around for a while now and (kinda) aims to be what spore didn't do. I suggest you check it out!

Oh snaps, I didn't realize this game had a modding community. Is it centered in Steam? Or somewhere else?

Thrive is cool, but it's gonna take sooooo long to complete (if it ever gets completed at all)

Universim from Crytivo is a pretty good game .. its not exactly Spore but its got bits and pieces of that type game in it .. and they are still workin on it, they just added rival tribes in the last update

Oh and have the tribal stage different evolutions of your creature competing rather than multiple different species so that it would be much like the human way. Also climate change such as ice ages or extinction events should be added if you are too slow as well as the civilisation period to space have more development.

Cool story, bro!

CyberSurferXD did you find out? I'm interested to know which one.

Haven't yet. Been a little busy so haven't found a decent playthrough or hunted down a working fan server yet. (Best guess it was probably one of my guardians or skyterrors, those were my best series~)

Yea exactly same G’d ol days

So your designs were used in spore games?! Cool!

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Wha

I thought it was a little good for EA

EA helltrash devil

Very greedy

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Did you mean Potential?

But EA did a EA.

Ya, it still was my childhood.

potential, right?

It still is very fantastic

HintX - Random vids you are very right

Yea! I loved Spore for the creature stage as a kid, but now I see it's better than just that.

Burke Tinsley yeah... I spent MONTHS trying to wipe the Grox out of the galaxy lol

@@kyo2510 you should've friended them. i mean, not ally them.

OMG I LOVE UR SPORE SERIES I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD FIND U HERE :D

Spike Viper Love your channel man!

Best plug I've ever seen

i watching you and i thinking your name is spike voper ;) but you have great universe sandbox series and cities skylines aaaand can you do vr?

Yesss

They didn't close Maxis, they just closed Maxis Emeryville. Maxis still kinda exists

Maxis has been reduced to a slave studio to pump out Sims DLC

@@cr128 so Maxis is a Vassal company to EA?

Man it's really sad that such a innovative game was reduced by a corporate scum.

@@cr128 yes, EA was the worst for Maxis i love both games (spores and sims, simscity series too) but its so hard to keep playing, they are destroying them one by one, sims is the survivor but i think its just because we have uncomprehensible hope (and we dont have any other game like these)

i dont kow , they are killing the sims too :/

I'd say it's technically way more difficult to achieve than the sims tho

Imagine this except maybe possibly visiting another galaxy? Really wish there was a sequel...

There isn't enough content, I play it and I finish the game, then I do it again

EA belongs in trash of hell

Haven't they always been?

bootleg Todd Howard JEE,I WONDER WHY

Some of there games are actually pretty good but then you look at the others...

They still were, even back then. Especially once they closed down Maxis and it also came out how much they forced them to dumb down gameplay elements.

Worst company in America. IN A ROW

Yeah, I'm actually glad E.A. cencored the game enough to have an E10+ rating. Other than that, it needed more development time, that E.A. probly didn't alow. Still my favorite vidiogame of all time though!

or as I call no man's sky: the bad spore fangame

When I saw the concept behind No Man's Sky I thought: it's going to repeat Spore's mistakes isn't it...

It is much better now tbh

They never moved a finger to address their consumers complaints except when forced by a court of law... Hello Games, so far, has gone far and beyond.

at least spore was a game at launch No mans Sky toke 50 patches to be playable

To be fair I don't think the forum had much impact left in its last years of life. It was really meh anyway, and was more akin to a rusted back door that's easy to break off the hinges. It was good in its time. But its last years were really bad. So well it might be somewhat sad to see it go, it's definitely for the better. I think the community will be fine really as well. There's a lot of untapped potential in other areas of spore. I.E. the sporepedia. It probably helps that there's a fair few people on discord from spore nowadays as well.

oh wassup love your content and his too

I do agree Sarah that the last couple of years for the forum were awful. The community utterly stagnated to nothing but bitterness. But it's still sad to think that from now on, any new players who are introduced to Spore and come play will simply lack every aspect of having a community forum to talk into. The new EA one does not look very inviting for conversation, just black and white trouble shooting. But for the already-existing community, I do agree, being on Discord and the Sporepedia does help a lot. I just feel for any future fans. Meteor Fire, thank you!

Yeah the EA forum is pretty.. meh. But who knows. Maybe the newbies will make something out of it

That's. Actually kinda sad.

Still, the final game turned out pretty decent. Just imagine what it could've been if the original vision was kept...

its would be something very special if it was

the game stops being "fun" after the creature stage. Civilization development is where the game stops being "fun". Could they have made the game play in the civilization stages more interesting? Of course. Could they have gone in depth for the different branching evolutionary paths our creatures could take? Sure. But they didn't. EA slapped them in the face and made them release an unfinished product that didn't live up to their original vision. The less realistic aspects of the game don't hurt it as much as you seem to be focusing on. It's a shame that they couldn't go into depth with those mechanics but for what they presented us with, it's generally appealing. People may have been hooked by a concept for a "realistic evolution and life simulation" game but they stayed for the creativity and fun aspects that Maxis presented in the creating aspects of the game. If they could do it again, (I don't know why they can't honestly besides no one funding it since EA won't let them make anything past Sim dlc and WIll Wright's absence for the games vision and direction will be missed) they would, could and should.

Just reading this it feels like SOMEONE out there should make another "Spore" but go through with all these ideas, it would be impressive if done right.

Yes, I think that the fact that people were talking about making this game since the early '90s is a very important note. In fact, in the time between being an original concept and actually being released, most of the novel ideas were released in much better games... which actually made most people MORE excited for what Spore was supposed to become.

I’ve heard that there’s a game being made, that’s similar to Spore, but it’s only about the cell stage so far. They have plans for other stages though.

let me know what it is called and I'll keep an eye out.

Cassidy Bunny I think the name is of that game is Thrive

Smakyak Productions I don't really want to see Thrive it doesn't really look like a "Spore Sequel" just a realistic evolution game, no goofyness or plans for something like sporepedia or even a galactic adventures type mode one of the most beloved features in spore.

Bummer.

LGR ?

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It recently got the aquatic stage :D

@@lynnk5635 wat you mean darkedge

@@lynnk5635 No it didn't. Shit's still the same.

@@lynnk5635 no?

I just assume that by the end of cell stage you're already a big fish

Do they have any community creations compilation for download? I really need more variety in my game . Also, where can I find the discord link?

Could you post the server links please, it'd be nice to have a place tostill hang out with the community after the forums got nuked.

Mm not entirely. I mean I'm sure we have playable pngs in the sporepedia section lol. Just we're not as focused on the gameplay itself as much as we are the editors. We do a lot more contests than anything. And one of our big focuses is mods. But sure I'll give you guys a link :D

kennysphere Is there any other way I can contact you? I can't send you a pm and you don't have a discussion board. I don't wanna be rude and drop the link on his comments like that :)

Mods? What mods are there for Spore? I remember looking back in 2011-2015 when I played this game a lot and only finding a lot of poorly done space stage "new weapons" mods. Anything like new parts, features, etc.? I never really cared for Betterspore because of the classic "No pics no clicks" since there's like, 3 pictures related to a whole mod that adds 50 parts and all that. Everything else just seems like a lot of number values that are changed "max capacity", "change X for Y, both are vanilla items btw".

True

There was even going to be an animated series about Spore, but they didn't even showcase the characters before it died.

The writers from Robot Chicken did write the scripts for some adventures for Maxis

They even made some adventures themselves! And these adventures are really dumb as you might expect

@@agenty_gd What username are RC's adventures under?

I don't remember, I haven't played Spore for over a year now, I completely ran out of ideas about what to do in it anymore

Halo is one

Nice

I see your profile picture almost every comment section. What's it about?

@@KnightQQ some mindless fortnite-playing 11 year old made a "song" and then everyone stole his pfp to raid every comment section.

they've either moved on or are still creating. The community is still there for the most part, It's a shame that life can get in the way of fun at times so hiatus' are common, but that server error in 2016 sealed the deal for a lot of people. They fixed it though and if you download the game through origin again and contact support for the expansion errors you'll run into (hip hip hooray, their support team is no longer a joke) you could be back to creating in literal minutes if you'd ever want to gander. I know I have. I miss my old buds for sure and it's a shame that some relationships drift far when confronted with roadblocks like tech errors and life in general but seeing someone again after a long absence feels great. If you ever do go back on there I hope you run into a bud or two ^v^

Yesss. So it was officialy by EA and not some third-party shop like I falsely remembered :D

I remember in school that I got to make one for free. Not sure where it is now though

It did?

There were a lot of things promised that never made it in to the game. Hell go watch the old e3 demo. They show off a fish stage that was never in the final game.

That was because EA rushed Maxis and they had to have it out by a specific date and so they cut a lot of stuff out to make the deadline-

It was planned, but EA rushed maxis to hard to make the game, they do that to all their companies

Razqua Yeah, Spore was kinda No Man’s Sky before No Man’s Sky. Even gameplay wise, too, space stage has a lot of similar elements to it as what No Man’s Sky tried to sell.

How can you still play it? I just got the game recently and it always says check connection when the connection is fine.

fissydissylissy I use an Origin account to log-in.

@@snowcraft-d3d yeah I realized I was putting my log in in the wrong place oops 😅

I wish i could still play it but i cant start it up?

Diego Otter Dude, after the 2016 server error, they upgraded the server some time later that year into 2017 and sent out a newsletter in the Sporum for players with issues connecting to contact Support. I contacted support a few months ago and am back to creating creatures again after a few years hiatus after that connection error. Support is no longer a joke ^v^ they do great work and are quick too :) Too bad I didn't contact them sooner before I wasted my money buying the game again on origin. I could have saved 20 bucks XD

:3 UwU Jail

I hope you enjoy it! And go wild with your creations, no matter how stupid they seem or how poor it is compared to what you imagined :P

That game was my childhood. Good luck! BTW some advice: either ally with the grox against the rest of the galaxy, or just exterminate the grox with your alien allies. You can bribe empires to still like you when you're allied to the grox, but that can become tedious. Granted, this is just advice for if you want to sweep your dominance across the galaxy.

that bot parts fiasco to this day I hate them for it. I have the parts but those things don't transfer from comp so sol... well their new tech support team may be able to help me get access back to them but what's the point of using parts no one else has? They can't download the creature and look at it in editor at all without the parts, it was a terrible promotion. Dark Spore would have been a great expansion for Galactic Adventures as a game creation option so that players could make even more engaging content for each other but they made it into its own game entirely and missed the point of spores appeal. Creating your own living beings is the entire appeal of spore. Not having that option in their game was a mistake. If you could have used downloaded creatures from the main games creature creator or website it could have been perfectly acceptable to not have it in Dark Spore but they didn't think those things through at all. e-e smh

Luckily the Dark Injections mod comes included with the Dr. Pepper bot parts in its part pack, as well as some custom bot parts

I was pretty surprised how good Darkspore was. I enjoyed it a lot... probably more than the main game, ha

@@phoenixpinkmyn5535 the bad part of darkspore is how much the game crashed I had a good PC when it came out, the game just crashed all the time

back then support was such a joke. I was hesitant at first to contact them too, So much, so that I bought the game digitally again rather than call them, but their expansion packs wouldn't load and I caved in and contacted them with their message support system. They have a new team for support (mostly outsourced east Indian tech support, but it's cool) and they know what they're doing. They can fix most issues you have now and are reasonably well mannered and patient. Had a good long chat with my first run in but we had a miscommunication about my issue since the directions he sent me were a bit convoluted so I contacted them again and got someone else to help me and they fixed my issue without me having to do anything on my end in less than 20 minutes.

Somewhat similar outcome for me. Had actually preordered it because it looked so good but due to some tech issues i got my key permanently locked out by the DRM in the first day. I tried for a bit with their support but eventually gave up on it and vowed never to preorder an EA game again... So i actually haven't ever played spore :/

Whattt??? Shouldn't that be grounds for legal action of some type? Or threatening about going to the press?

I would love for it to get a sequel. literally re-brand it and call it something else. Spiritual successor and all that. EA doesn't have a use for it but I'm sure someone would have to pay through the nose to buy the rights from them.

me too.

cOmAtOrAn Honestly If Spore did an Aquatic Expansion everyone would’ve played it

The reason why they made those spin-offs were because EA told them to. They weren't interested in Spores potential for hooking in more of the same audience they already had and instead decided to have it have a release of some kind on nearly every platform, especially for children since that's where the most money can be made by exploiting console releases. The Wii was selling so well and many folks had a DS so they marketed toward that crowd and designed their games for that demographic so that it would sell... it didn't work very well obviously. So EA started to drop support for Maxis' Spore projects since more often than not their endeavors were met with one failure after another. Dark Spore was their last chance to keep Spore relevant in EA's eyes and that bombed because the game play and focus of the franchise threw away the original appeal of the entire project. An evolution simulator/creature creator game being turned into a combat rpg isn't exactly what fans were clamoring for. If Dark Spores game play was how the civilization stages game play in the main series of Spore played people would have loved it. If it was an expansion instead of it's own thing, there would have been far more support for it. But no. They strayed from the whole point of Spore and focused on the wrong things and ended up shutting down faster than some analogy describing speed in comparison that I'm not clever enough to think of. It speaks Volumes when Dark Spore's servers are completely shutdown in less than five years time but the main game of Spore is still running to this day... granted, many of us had to contact support to get back in due to server errors a few years back, but still. These servers don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon...

never pre-buy something, it destroys the incentive of actually making it

The reboot didn't go that well

@@davidhong1934 they rebooted spectrobes?

this is the first time hearing of a reboot of Spectrobes.

good thought

I dont know, the last title was the wii one, and it was amazing. Probably didnt sell well enough.

rip all of your progress...

It could be way better but in no means is it that bad.

but not darkspore

Not really, go to the SporePedia, then click on a Creature for example, then drag It into your Desktop and then into the in-game SporePedia.

or make maggots

It's EA that ruined 100% of the game. Will Wright left because of EA. They had a deal with the garbage devil

Picture an atom kit except for all the element atoms its eyes, arms, claws, jaws, bodys, more attachable bodys, individual teeth and spikes... oh man I could imagine for years... And then having a spinoff with cards so you could use those creatures you created, except like the pokemon cards game. Each pack comes with cards that describes the damage/attack/health/effect of each part, so you could have some big health tank creature that's poisonous and does 100 damage or a small creature that does 5,000 damage. Health depends on the number of bodies, 30 part limit. Or hell have a flying dinosaur-like creature that's balanced except every 2-3 turns an attack misses! or that depends on a dice! or even flipping a coin! Don't get me started with the aquatics....

Back in the day if you sent a file of your spire creatures into a company they would 3d print it out for you

i cracked mine so ea can kiss my ass

Overrated yes i still play! Still haven’t reached the center of the galaxy lol

Only if you're EA.

refrennce?

@@MarinkaD your username

@@flamixflame2685 hehe baoiiii

@@MarinkaD Your username is hte Reference to his joke Great Movie btw heheheheheheheheheheh

@@flamixflame2685 yeah i watched it like 5 times xD