Spore, EA and DRM (oh my!)

[RoachGnome]

Originally Posted by magus113

It figures that Spore would turn into yet another "Maxis wants to destroy your wallet with expansion packs" kind of game again.

Which is what he said.

Do you envision Spore being supported with a lot of expansion packs like The Sims has been?

I think it will be similar in extent but hopefully not the same strategy we took with The Sims. With The Sims, we were basically selling expansion packs to the same customers over and over. I think Spore lends itself more to horizontal expansion, where we take components of the game like levels or editors into totally different formats and hit people that maybe never even played the hardcore PC game(which this is not), but would enjoy a lighter experience using one of the editors. Or, using the content in new ways outside of Spore the game. I think we’re going to see Spore expanding in a much wider variety of ways than The Sims did, but to the same extent. Different systems, different game styles, things like that. Once you have this much content there’s a lot of things you can do with it, gaming and otherwise.