http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/5031.page
Keep your eyes peeled. While EA convinces itself its marketing ideals will win the day, Maxis is ready to actually listen to your concerns about the game.

Yep its pretty good that they are doing a Q&A, as long as we are realistic, there are alot of questions they will have to pass over because they don't have the info yet, aren't ready to release it, or the questions are baited. I tried to make mine fairly fluffy questions that I think have a possible chance of being selected.

Its only been stickied to the General Discussion forum for a bit now, and its going to be floooooded with questions.

Yep, in my question I summed up a pretty broad list of the features we've been discussing here on the forums (as far as patches are concerned) and I only asked for a yes/no answer so I hope mine's gonna be answered as well so we'll all have an idea what to expect and wait for.

I think I remember your post. The only problem is there might be some of your items that are yes, and some are no, and some they aren't sure or don't want to answer yet. So if you ask for a single yes or no to everything, I don't see that happening. This then forces them to go through your items as individual questions and is alot more questions than one person will likely get answered. (Of course just my opinion, who knows..)

Well, I divided my post into short points like "- enabling/disablin automatic upload" / "- a button for placing turrets in all colony slots" etc. etc. So... if they have previously read the feedback on those and discussed it then it should be fairly simple and quick answering something like: "yes yes yes no yes yes no no yes no".

EDIT: And if they haven't read our input on those matters then... maybe now they will.

I feel a lot the same as the Original Poster here. I might not underwrite everything, but I don't mind voicing my support by posting this.

Doesn't really matter if most people hate or like the game. ANY game can be improved upon. Everyone will have things they do and don't like about a game. If they are developing this game for the long haul, meaning it's not just a fire and forget release, then they should listen AND converse with the community on that. Nothing wrong with passing on a little info here and there to keep your customers happy. This release of spore has, for me, been a total community disaster. The game itself isn't nearly as bad, but the community side, both in support and immersion with other players, has been horrible. I realize I have player made content in my universe, but with very little contact and interaction with those players, I feel like I'm playing a completely solo game. Add to that the very little information EA or maxis gives us about the direction of the game, or even the immediate bug fixes planned, and that makes for a very bad community experience. If I had one question to ask during that Q & A, it would be this: "Will EA/Maxis be joining community they hoped to create or sitting in the back of the class like they have so far?" I say hoped to create simply because it's just not there yet. Coming to these forums is the only real interaction I have with other players, and I can do that on a game with absolutely no online features.

elbrad wrote:from what i've seen with WoW, dev's don't spend a lot of time on the forums. they're either too busy working on the upcoming fixes, or counting their giant stacks of money.

I'd like you to show me a dev who makes giant stacks of money.

Usual ratio of how profits from a game tend to be divided among wages is about 90% between 12 company executives, 10% between 250 developers.

Apparently you all missed this post as well...

http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/5047.page

Maxis is communicating. Don't expect EA too.

Oh, I just treated the EA in this thread's title as if it was Maxis as I never expected any feedback from EA nor would I care if there was any, this is a Maxis game.

problems? what problems??
$ = succes, so no problems with spore!


rrrrrrrrrrrrright...

ryalseth wrote:http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/5031.page
Keep your eyes peeled. While EA convinces itself its marketing ideals will win the day, Maxis is ready to actually listen to your concerns about the game.

lol. SWG did the same thing in the beginning when there was much anger. The questions that were answered were usually irrelevant or not very meaty and never addressed any real concerns. That game was not finished at release and if anyone has played it you know they have "rebooted" it several times over the pas few years.

I dont expect the devs to participate on the forums. I know its hard for them to comment because of timelines and programming issues etc. What I do expect is for EA or Maxis to do a general post possibly in the NEWS section of the site of what gamers might expect in the future. Whether it be a flora editor or just things that might be in the works. Most other games give a broad sense of where things are headed.

What I want to know from the TPTB is if this is the game or if there is more in store. If this is the final product then I want to uninstall it and forget about my wasted $60. Bug fixes dont mean a thing when there is no reason to play the game.

Right now there is no way I would ever buy an expansion if one was in the works. They would need to improve on teh basic game before it was worth blowing more money on. There are plenty of other games out there I can support if all there is to do here is create additional vehicles and creatures.

pcguy89 wrote:If Maxis is ready to comment, they will comment.

I was ranting in a reply to this, but it seems there was no call for that. Sorry about this useless entry.

cysgodi wrote:Apparently you all missed this post as well...

http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/5047.page

Maxis is communicating. Don't expect EA too.

Yeah, well, they didn't make this message very obvious, did they. Like using sticky or something like that?
I would have been happy to have seen this message a few days earlier. It would have saved me from pumping up my blood pressure and writing all these snide comments about the devs and their agendas.

But then , they wrote it only yesterday... oh well.

The thing I noticed about this particular forum, is that it seems like 90% of it's posters are absolutely disgusted with the game. I also noticed there are only about 20 names or so that actually "contribute" on a regular basis. The majority of them are pissed about one thing or another, and are constantly making themselves heard.

Then there are other forums out there, fan sites, where the majority of "contributors" actually like the game. Sometimes screen names from here, show up there, to voice their opinions yet again (and they are not always the same).

Someone stated in this thread that "the majority" of people are pissed about the game (or something along those lines). There is actually a poll on here that asked people to rate the game. The last time I looked, about 200 people had voted, and the majority said it was ok or better. Actually, the majority said it was good or better, but that's not the point.

What it all means is that, out of the several millions of Spore copies out there, the people in this forum and every other forum COMBINED, do not even come close to creating a majority of anything.

Yes, the game has issues. Yes, some people don't like it. Yes, some people do. Yes, Maxis is working to correct the issues, and yes, Maxea has addressed the US, and they will again when they have something important to say.

It's one thing to make noise. It's another to make so much that people shut their windows.

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