Spore on Steam?
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Well, I wouldn't mind either way. The one thing I find annoying is purely the fact that it takes ages to patch the game. Granted, it's the biggest game in terms of disk space on my laptop, but it still shouldn't take half a bloody hour to patch the game! So if Steam can possibly quicken, if such a word exists, then I'm in! :-D
Am I the only one who couldn't play spore after reaching the endgame at the center of the universe?
It would make sense, EAD (EA Downloader) has been not much of a store. In fact it may have done more harm than good.
They first really tried to market BF2142 content on the service, but ultimately it may have killed the game. People who were heavily invested in the game got the new content on EAD, while new players logged in to find that every server required you to have the expansion packs to play on most servers (the populated ones).
Easier access to the content would have solved a lot of problems. EAD wasn't very much of a service, I am not sure how it's changed in the last couple of years, but at the time I used it, it was about as intuitive as getting a horse to trot backwards.
Steam may just provide that service for these smaller content releases. God knows they've come a long way since they started. It's the first real service I have used and felt like I was getting an actual product. Perhaps that speaks more to the content of the service than the service itself.
They first really tried to market BF2142 content on the service, but ultimately it may have killed the game. People who were heavily invested in the game got the new content on EAD, while new players logged in to find that every server required you to have the expansion packs to play on most servers (the populated ones).
Easier access to the content would have solved a lot of problems. EAD wasn't very much of a service, I am not sure how it's changed in the last couple of years, but at the time I used it, it was about as intuitive as getting a horse to trot backwards.
Steam may just provide that service for these smaller content releases. God knows they've come a long way since they started. It's the first real service I have used and felt like I was getting an actual product. Perhaps that speaks more to the content of the service than the service itself.
What I really want to see are deauthorization tools for all EA's install-limited games. Might actually start gaming on my PC again if I thought the investment was going to be worthwhile. First game I'd want: Mass Effect (Red Alert 3 already deauth-ed but coming to PS3, so waiting on that one).
I gave up on Spore long before I made it to the center. After my species of ill-tempered spiky S.O.B.s went from a microbe to dominant force in a fourth of the galaxy in a pathetically short amount of time I just lost interest altogether.Theo Samaritan said:
I'm not sure about you Theo, but I kind of regret buying that game in the first place.
Ehh.. compared with the 24 hours it takes for wow, that's very quick.Cymraeg Phill said:
Back on topic, if so, while it'd be a victory for Valve's platform, i don't think it's a major victory, that will only come when large proportions of games are launched simultaneously on steam and retail. Still, good idea.
Spore was a game that I was waiting for since the initial announcements years ago. When it was released on torrents before the game itself hit the shops, I went to download it, with the intention of buying it once it reached the shops.Vanguard1219 said:
I finished it three days before the release date. Other than being rather disappointed (Spore was announced before my British Cynicism Gene kicked in) I was glad I didn't buy it.
I un-installed it in the end. Shame really.
Steamed spores are yummy.
Seriously, the game was massively over-hyped and while they took it back to the drawing board a few times they couldn't quite live up to it. The actual game is okay, if you don't mind 4 mediocre games leading up to a 5th all-encompassing universal God sim that's relatively entertaining for a day or two.
Seriously, the game was massively over-hyped and while they took it back to the drawing board a few times they couldn't quite live up to it. The actual game is okay, if you don't mind 4 mediocre games leading up to a 5th all-encompassing universal God sim that's relatively entertaining for a day or two.
