theultimateend wrote:I would not only buy it, but I would make the drive down to Maxis and beg and plead till Will Himself signed it so I could put it up on my shelf.

Not to say I fell in love with the science spore.

But I did...

Good thing its only a notch above plutonic.

If Spore was the way it was said to be - I would be here railing against anyone who disparaged it with a venom unmatched.

But - I am on the opposite side of this Spivil War. I fight for Science Rights.

I'd give a left bodypart to hear the reaction to this thread at Maxis...

RocketGirl wrote:I'd give a left bodypart to hear the reaction to this thread at Maxis...

Chris: Pffft, ignore it.

Will: But...

Chris: I said ignore it!

Jackuul wrote:But - I am on the opposite side of this Spivil War. I fight for Science Rights.

I would like to keep fighting, but I have lost all hope. So I'm beginning the process of uninstalling Spore and scouring SecuROM from my system.

Carry on the good fight, my friend.

MinionJoe wrote:

Jackuul wrote:But - I am on the opposite side of this Spivil War. I fight for Science Rights.

I would like to keep fighting, but I have lost all hope. So I'm beginning the process of uninstalling Spore and scouring SecuROM from my system.

Carry on the good fight, my friend.

The Sou- I mean, Science shall never surrender!

Jackuul wrote:

RocketGirl wrote:I'd give a left bodypart to hear the reaction to this thread at Maxis...

Chris: Pffft, ignore it.

Will: But...

Chris: I said ignore it!

*psigh* I'd hate the think you're right, but the way things have gone so far...

hey did your handle suddenly get capitalization or am I imagining it?

You are not imagining it. Capitalization of usernames is supposedly a forum upgrade intended to match the capitalization on actual Spore.com profile pages.

Hawkian wrote:hey did your handle suddenly get capitalization or am I imagining it?

Merciful Zeus! You're right! Weird.

Hah! I'd have to trust them first.

PlasteredDragon wrote:Hah! I'd have to trust them first.

Okay, good point.

But, you know...if they were smart--and, frankly, humble enough--to just come right out and say, "Awright, awright; clearly we failed a significant number of you when we let the Cute Team win the argument, and now we're going to get it right, going to set things right," I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

...but only if they were extremely frank about it; no equivocation, no hemming and hawing, just flat-out stated that they made a mistake and are determined to win back our trust and confidence with a science Spore, like was originally conceived, like Will wanted. Like we all wanted by a 10 to 1 margin, if this poll is to be believed.

Again, those numbers are telling; I hope someone at Maxis is paying attention.

Dang. I thought of something really clever to say with regards to this topic while I was walking around downtown; by the time I got home, I'd forgotten it.

So, like...pretend I'd said it, right, nod knowingly, and decide that, yeah, I had a pretty SPORE point, and it was funny too; it's just a shame I'm not running for high public office. Okay? Rad.

We know that maxis is capable of including actual science in their games:





Which is partly why so many were dissapointed with the drastic lack of science in Spore.

I, of course, voted a resounding YES!!!!

As anyone who has visited my thread could have guessed...

SPORE is actually Anti-Science!
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/589.page

I'm glad to see where this poll is heading.

One final thing I'd like to say:
It seems that discussions like this tend to be about the extremes. Or at least, if you oppose the premise, you take an extreme stance.

Nobody is saying Spore needs to be a detailed life sim from some Cray Supercomputer. Spore hardly included any valid scientific content, and in many cases did something completely opposite of the reality. It's anti-science. It's anti-educational. There are certainly games out there that are science-lite, but still fairly authentic in the science they use. There's a big difference!

I would compare it to a movie based on a book...

If a movie is made based on a book, obviously they can't include every line of dialog, and every scene. But if they keep all the premises of the book intact, and keep the dialogue true, that's good enough to satisfy most people who have read the book.

However, if they rewrite the story to make things happen that are totally against what happened in the book, then that's unacceptable!

We've all seen movies that go both ways. And if you are familiar with a book that's been made into a movie, you want to see the movie be true to the book, not a bunch of flim flam scriptwriter's imagination that uses the title of the book but nothing else.

Well... Spore is like the latter. And those of us who have voted YES here, want the former.

Jackuul wrote:

RocketGirl wrote:I'd give a left bodypart to hear the reaction to this thread at Maxis...

Chris: Pffft, ignore it.

Will: But...

Chris: I said ignore it!

So true.

Hecker deserves a kick in the nuts.

Instead of altogether re-selling it as a different game.

I just think it should be made into an expansion. Making us not only use less money, but it's a quicker install and less hassle then installing another few GB when an expansion could be a few MB.