pizzaboy9109 wrote:So he's only in EA by a freaking contract!?

PatTheWanderer wrote:

MaxisWill wrote:Hey everyone.

There's a little press release going out today as we speak (well actually I'm not speaking, I'm typing... (and I guess you're not even listening, you're reading (unless you're having your new Kindle read this to you in which case you are listening) but you're definitely not reading this "as" the press release is going out, and I'm certainly typing this hours before the fact....) anyway. (I suck at writing)

The gist of the story is that I'm leaving EA (well, not really, I'll explain) to start (well, not quite start, it's actually been around for quite a while in a rather different form) ... let's say dive into a new venture, The Stupid Fun Club. The Stupid Fun was actually started many years ago by myself and my friend Mike Winter, we met while competing in Robot Wars and Battlebots. It was apparent to us that one day the robots would take over the world and we decided we wanted to be on the winning side, so our initial charter was to do whatever we could to usher in our new mechanical overlords.

Along the way we ending up building and prototyping a lot of... odd stuff. People would come by our shop and get interested in this stuff for various reasons. Some of this stuff sparked new creative ideas, even (*gasp*) ideas that may have "commercial, entertainment value" (this is how you talk when you've been around lawyers and MBA's too long).

At some point we started showing some of this stuff to the people at EA. They got excited by the prospect of us pursuing these projects commercially (or that's what they said anyway, I think they just want to be on the winning side of the coming robotic revolution as well). So we started talking to them (EA, not the robots, though we do talk to them as well, but the robot responses are cryptic at best) about getting involved and investing in The Stupid Fun Club (we asked the robots first but they're all broke).

So as things worked out I decided to jump into my work at the club more or less full time. But at The Stupid Club we'll be working on new games (along with EA) as well as other kinds of projects with different partners.

I can't talk about specific projects coming out of SFC just yet (alas, the robots won't let me), but as things develop I'll find a way to keep those of you who are interested informed about what we're doing (but not with a blog...I'll never have a blog). A major aspect of the projects I've worked on has always been the player community, that won't change.

-Will Wright

Well I doubt you will hear this (rather read this), but let's have a go anyways for the sake of futile customer hope.

To start I have been with you since simcity 2000. I have the sims and their expansions, the simcities (even societies), simearth, simant (one of your best), and naturally, I have Spore (otherwise how I am here would be quite odd wouldn't it?)

Now, Spore. Yes, if I recall correctly back a few years I remember hearing about a great project called Spore. Heck I even remember seeing one of my favorite game developers testing the game out on youtube. I watched the video in awe and wonder, even showed some of my pals who ended up buying your game (approximately a meager 8 extra sales for you.) I do admit, geeky as it is, I watched the 35 min. demo video at least 20 times. Got Spore Creature Creator immediately and heck that was a game in itself, it still carries much of the game.

Then Spore released. For a solid two or three months I was very much content. Then naturally, things got monotonous, but this is to be expected. CC came out but, personally I wasn't really inclined to pay 60 dollars for a few extra parts when the Creators in the game now are all ready innumerable in potential.

Then GA was announced, and this immediately captured my interest again. For Spore the game has all ready laid down a breath-taking groundwork. I know that if GA is done properly it will be a breath of revival into Spore. Possibly setting the game to unprecedented popularity. For it could mix elements of multiplayer (in terms of many people working to make a game/mission.) As well as the amazing wealth of potential such as whole games, stories, etc. able to be made and played by people worldwide. If done right the player will be able to make the content of the game and so several possibilities and flavors will be available. Much like with StarCraft or WarCraft III online, GA coupled with the fact that YOU can make the characters, the triggers, the maps, etc. means that Spore could potentially be a game of limitless possibility.

So now I am very much confused. Why does one of my favorite game creators suddenly abandon his greatest project on the cusp of the expansion to revive it? Is EA pressuring you? Is the GA project not going well? Am I perhaps just confused, and though you are leaving EA, you will still be able to help build Spore? What am I to expect from Spore if you are not still on board?

Even if you choose not to respond to this, but just read this. Please, as a loyal customer, and a believer that Spore, the project you set out to make the greatest will be the greatest, do not abandon ship. You are our captain after all, even if none of us have ever spoken to you or will ever speak to you. Your very presence keeps us here in hope that this game is not a waste of time and money.


-Just a Wanderer

Crisperstorm wrote:can u send an email to me that includes the icons for the difrent stages of spore?
cause i was gonna edit them to make a icon for the deleted stages, city, aquatic, and molecular

ZVakser wrote:Who's Will Wright?