New details about both Cute and Creepy and the REAL first expansion....

Taken from an email EA Netherlands has been sending out, translated (thanks to the people on GamingSteve):

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With more than 30 million player creations invading the Internet since the launch of Spore(TM), fans have let their imaginations run wild and soon players will be able to take their creativity and gameplay to even greater heights! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced the development of a Space stage expansion pack and Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack -- add-ons that will grow and evolve the critically-acclaimed video game, Spore.

"Spore is an incredibly personal and customizable experience," said Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of Maxis studio. "Many of our fans have asked us for even more tools to build with, while others are looking to extend their gameplay. As soon as we wrapped up Spore, we turned our focus to creating additional content that caters to fans' individual tastes. With the cosmos as our backdrop, we can take Spore in almost infinite directions, constantly changing and evolving the experience."

Gamers will experience deeper Space stage gameplay with an expansion pack scheduled for release in spring 2009. For the first time, players' space faring creatures will be able to beam down from their spaceships to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions. A new Adventure Creator will allow players to build and share online their own custom missions, providing almost endless gameplay possibilities.

The Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, available worldwide as soon as November 18, 2008, provides more than 100 new creature-building components themed in two distinct styles--charming, cartoon-esque creatures and scary, monster-like creatures. Including body parts, paint options, animations, backgrounds and more, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack allows users of Spore or the retail version of the Spore Creature Creator to give their creatures distinct personalities like never before!

'Parts Packs' work with the Creature Creator software, it seems. But the news about the REAL expansion, a Space Phase expansion, is exciting.

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There's already a thread about this...

Edit: at least I thought there was, I can't seem to find it now.

shinu1729 wrote:There's already a thread about this...

Edit: at least I thought there was, I can't seem to find it now.

Its a sticky now.

Ascus wrote:

shinu1729 wrote:There's already a thread about this...

Edit: at least I thought there was, I can't seem to find it now.

Its a sticky now.

okay, thanks.

Oh god!

Some stupid parts ,paints and scripts???

OMG!

I hope the next expansion will give us something .......more interesting.

Wait wait hold on, new -animations-? What do they mean by that? More random actions when creatures interact? New Walking Animations? Huh?

As far as I can tell its for the creature creator only?

If I'm wrong then great, if not I'm not buying it... I enjoy buildings and vehicles.. I've spent enough time toying with creatures unless I'm in the editors to make tribal, civ, or space stage looks...

Oh well... I dunno unless there is something in it that makes me go OOOOO then I won't buy it.

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I think it means that we'll have 24 new buttons to push while we're Test Driving our creatures. Yay.

Edit: ...Which I assume would be seen/used throughout your Creature and Tribal stage games.

So if this "expansion"

costs 20$ then how much cost the REALY expansion?

40 or 50???

I dont know.

So, at least they are adding to the space stage; for a price. I just hit the center of the universe, and now I am bored. The expansion cannot come soon enough. After that, all I can hope for is the flora editor. But I do think that the space stage expansion kit seems like something that OBVIOUSLY should have been included.

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whoa, wait. People have been clamoring for a better space phase and the ability to leave their spaceships and do away missions for weeks and now that we're actually going to get it, all you can do is complain?

JEE-SUS! NOTHING MAKES YOU PEOPLE HAPPY DOES IT??!!

Yes, we need the Flora editor

Maxis, when will it come out??? With a patch??? One of the expansions???

Because we have to wait so long for the patch and we cant walk around on planets, we should get it for free. That would be fair!

But, still love the game...

Dragonseye wrote:whoa, wait. People have been clamoring for a better space phase and the ability to leave their spaceships and do away missions for weeks and now that we're actually going to get it, all you can do is complain?

JEE-SUS! NOTHING MAKES YOU PEOPLE HAPPY DOES IT??!!

It's a common law on official game forums. There will always be someone pissed off at any change whatsoever.

Dragonseye wrote:whoa, wait. People have been clamoring for a better space phase and the ability to leave their spaceships and do away missions for weeks and now that we're actually going to get it, all you can do is complain?

JEE-SUS! NOTHING MAKES YOU PEOPLE HAPPY DOES IT??!!

I'm not sure if you made the same mistake that I initially did, but the space stuff won't be coming with C&C, it's coming with an expansion in Spring. Which actually surprises me; I was expecting an expansion within another two months of C&C coming out.

So...they havent really done anything with this pack to appease us whiners. Sorry. Trust me, I don't enjoy complaining about all this stuff any more than most of you enjoy reading my whining. I'd much rather I didn't have anything to whine about at all. But I'd rather have NO new parts and an expansion with space stuff three months from now, than some parts in a month and nothing new for gameplay till April.

I enjoy building creatures from scratch, but the big thrill of the game for me is going through from Cell to space. Doing that is going to get really repetitive before April rolls around, no matter how many new and interesting creatures get made with the parts in this pack.

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Whats so "NEW" about all of this. All of these so called features that they are going to sell to us .. were ALREADY in the game. I KNEW they pulled it all out to sell to us later. I hope this method of operation TANKS for you ALL at EA. Shame on you! Deeper gameplay should have BEEN RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX! Instead you took it all out and are now selling us the so called features LATER. BAD MOVE!

So then this upcoming patch, will do NOTHING for the gameplay. CHECKMATE! I'm done with this game, but NOT the fighting so don't get your hopes up EA.