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pleco
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Well, presume no longer. Today during a post-earnings report conference call with analysts, newly re-installed EA CEO John Riccitiello shattered many-a-gamer's dreams by announcing that Spore is no longer on the publisher's 2008 fiscal year calendar, which ends on March 31, 2008.
Well, shit.
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 05:36:24 [Permalink]
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| ffs i been waiting for about 5 years now |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
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Dave W.
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pleco
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USA
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 06:49:25 [Permalink]
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| I can only hope that this means the final product will be that much better. |
by Filthy
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 07:54:34 [Permalink]
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According to my daughter, Spore is apparently an ongoing victim of feature creep, something that often happens with the pet software projects of powerful people. Every advance in hardware and software gives the designers a whole new set of goals.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 08:00:40 [Permalink]
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| If that's the case, Half, then I'll need the extra time to save up for a new computer, 'cause my POS can't even handle Doom 3. |
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2007 : 06:21:04 [Permalink]
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apparently a creatures 4 is coming out soon as well.
I played 3 to death already |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
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Ricky
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 05/23/2007 : 15:58:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
Originally posted by HalfMooner
According to my daughter, Spore is apparently an ongoing victim of feature creep, something that often happens with the pet software projects of powerful people. Every advance in hardware and software gives the designers a whole new set of goals.
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Any idea where she got this information?
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Can't say or give better details, sorry. My daughter has friends close to the situation, but they aren't giving her very much detail, and she also can't directly quote them. Note, too, that I am not naming her, even. There seems to exist informal networks among the computer game industry people who often move from job to job, much like in Hollywood, but there are also limits upon what they normally tell one another.
But it supposedly is apparent to a lot of people "in the industry" that Will Wright, Spore's designer, wants to get his game exactly right. Electonic Arts is giving him much more latitude than it would give almost anyone else. This is proving very expensive for EA. Both within and outside of EA, there is both jealousy toward Wright among game developers who are kept on much tighter leashes, and respect for his attempt to create his masterwork just as he envisions it.
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Spore delayed until 2008
