Be Excellent To Each Other

Where are the reviews, then?

In PC Gamer uk this month.

Did I not mention on her that MY CREATURE GOT MENTIONED TWICE?!!?!?!!

Here's a screenshot (that they didn't put in the mag ;()
http://www2.cs.man.ac.uk/~griffil5/imag ... -39-34.jpg


edit: bloody max image size

No, no - which creature?!

I cannot play this until next Monday as I am away from my compooter!

Please don't all get bored of it before then!

Pray for thumb healage, too!

The big fish-headed on. I got an email out of the blue with that photo in it. He lured it into range of a monster he didn't like and let my giant fish-monster squish it I really want to play spore. I might download it and play it on my work computer, which is a fucking beast. This computer is on it's last legs and I don't want to provoke it further.

Is it a good thing usually when a reviewer has a had a review copy for ages, but still hasn't posted one? I'm confused. The embargo ended on the 28th. In lieu of game, I want information! Information. Information.

("You won't get it." - ed.)

By hook or by crook, I will.

Unrest on the EA Spore board, one poster there has sumarised it neatly:



Tcha, eh? And it's digital download which you have to pay £2.50 to download again after six months, and again after two years if its still running. And you don't get a nice manual and box and stuff.

Truly, EADM is the Anti-Steam.

Spore has been posted.

Me am so happy!

Hopefully the 24-hour ASDA will be selling it, and for cheap. I'm starved for anything to do. Anything at all.

Mine hasn't been.

EVE is fun.

And also very tempting. I'm trying to resist the urge to nerd it up to the degree of CG though. The amount of time I have right now is dangerous.

I wouldn't worry about that, that level of nerding is incredibly hard to reach.

Oh, cock, and I've just found out that some toe-rag has ripped off my debit card. So no Spore and no Viva Pinata this weekend. Arsebuckets.

Eurogamer Spore review here:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=229057

Here's the score, unless you like to read before knowing:



Really sorry to hear that Rodafowa. Hope the guy who did it gets clobbered something nasty in life.

Fuck

Hope you get it all sorted, guy.

Oh bugger. That's really horrid to here, Rodafowa. I hope that you get it sorted as soon as possible, I can imagine it's somewhat of a shock to discover

Thanks, everyone. Doesn't look like the ripping-off was quite as extensive as I'd first thought, so it's just the irritating hassle involved in getting everything that was set up on the old card onto the new card and chasing the bank for the missing cash to worry about now.

And the annoyance of not getting Spored this weekend, obv.

The 24-hour ASDA aren't selling Spore

No - we are all spore-less. You because of stupid Asda, Rodafowa because of horrible thieves and me due to my computer being 300 miles away.

Poop.

To be fair, the solution to my problem only involves a short walk in the morning, so I can't really complain.

But you are injurified! A short walk to you might be like a hike up Everest in a bikini for the rest of us! Don't make the lack of Spore seem any less of a momentous let down than such an occurrence clearly is

Drat. Here's something that might cheer you up.

Heh, indeed. Just sitting up at the moment is agony with this chest pain. But I'll plod on. I'll finally have something to do!

*In a terrifying, heaving, shuddering, passionate cry of need and want*

SSSPPPPORRRRRRRE!

I might well get this today. God knows when I'll play it, though, with Viva Pinata in the house.

I'm downloading this from EA's download service right now.

LewieP in explicable not-shopping-from-best-value-source shocker!

Can't wait to get it myself, this lunchtime for me.

Free review code is cheaper than buying the game

Edit: Because it is free.

NervyP in explicable-and-not-accurate-feeble-jibe-and-should-have-typed-'inexplicable'-not-'explicable'-anyway shocker!

Yay, Spore. I got soaked, but Spore is mine. Yay.

Because you are the first to step into the world of Spore, yours shall be a happy life there, free from care or want.

I'm going out this lunchtime to get mine, and a soaking!

The first stage is quite lovely. Also one-arm friendly. Yay.

Spore came today!

I shall have to wait until Monday evening to play this, but it is here!

Yay for Mimi! Dang on the enforced wait!

Everytime you post Mimi, I warm to your new puppy avatar a little more. At first I found him/her slightly unnerving, but now I've gotten used to the lil'l critter.

Hi expression was just so human - it was just a random picture I saw on the ninnynet



I was looking for a new avatar, just as a temporary one, and he popped up during a session of Mimi Searches the Web for More Nonsense.

I now have Spore, everyone!

Now I just have to wait until the end of the working day at 5:00. I am also now totally broke. Gagh.

Though I also have to go to pub after work, too.

Mission accomplished.

Also: I'm Spored, thanks to Asda and not-quite-as-bad-as-first-feared ripping-offery. All known BETEOers added as buddies, so I'm looking forward to Walking With Snuggraffes in the near future.

Fuckin' EA.

I just went to the Spore web site to try and find my Spore name so I could give it to people for buddy use.

The Sporepedia "is currently down for maintenance". The log in page "is currently down for maintenance".

On release day.

EA have never really got the hang of this "online" thing, have they?

EA's got about as much clue about 'ease of use online' as Russia has about 'proportionate response'.

Apparently people have been able to validate, but not log into Sporepedia in game. I suspect this is because they've left it to the last minute to do the Sporepedia updates. Incredibly, they did the American one before the EU one, even though their release date is further away.

Also, I hate the way you can't delete your account with the EA store and the card details they have with it. Also, apparently it's hugely difficult to get a refund off them, and they're charging £39.99 for the vanilla copy of Spore - which means you still pay more than the shops with the Creature Creator discount.

Nice going EA. Though I admit your promotional stuff and new non-shit game development strategy is exemplary.

But honestly, they really need to get some independent experts in to look at their online store and download system and tell them what needs sorting, and how.

=] Snuggraffffffes.

Ps, could you all report the situation with the DRM crap from a bought copy? I read the EULA today and it mentioned about limited number of "licences" etc.

3 'free' reinstalls with the same code, I think.

Just got into the space stage of the game. I'm a tad disappointed with how simplistic and short the other stages are, but I can see what Eurogamer meant when they said they seemed like lengthy tutorials. It seems to have a fair bit of scope and feels much more like a game now I've reached space.

Close, I think you can have as many reinstalls as you want but you can only reinstall three times on different systems. So it's a pickle if you have new ram installed, etc. At least, I pray it's that as with my tiny 75 gig hard-drive I have to juggle stuff all the time.

Oh, and installing now!

EA's download thing has been nothing but hassel for me.

Now it doesn't recognise my license, so I can only play offline.

My retail copy says the same thing, so it isn't just the downloaded version. EA are just massively incompetent.

Oh, well that's good then, I guess. Thanks.

Strange, it recognised mine. Did you type the validation code in capitals? Or set up a new account? You almost certainly did, and EA are certainly incompetent on that front from past experience.

Anyway, I got in and had a great lark. Spent the last four hours playing up to the start of tribe, ending up with a mix between kangaroo, goat and Lee Hazelwood. Rodafowa seems to have got in too, 'cos he epicized my Brechmose! How did that work out for ya, matey? I'm enjoying it so far, though there could be more depth. It gets a bit repetetive repeating those four social buttons. Still, had fun, and some nice surprises. Plus I'm really attached to my creation.

Maxis's are a bit crap though.

Main criticism is that its only recognised about three of my creatures from the creator as being mine, which is a pain in the arse.

How do you invert the y-axis? I can't think of anywhere else to look and it's driving me crazy.