SPORE Released 5 Days Early In Australia

knypha writes "Several sites are reporting that the much anticipated SPORE has been released 5 days ahead of the scheduled release date in Australia. I can confirm that SPORE is sitting on shelves in retailers and for the tidy sum of A$95.95 it can be yours. Why the early release exactly seems to be a matter of contention. No news if the game can actually be played yet or if the lucky early punters will still have to wait till the official release when EA allows for any validation process to occur. I guess EA could possibly be using the relatively small population to test the servers...or someone somewhere stuffed up!"

Re:Good luck to australian gamers

[Das Modell]

If it uses SecuROM I'm just going to torrent it.

Re:Good luck to australian gamers

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad it works on 99% of home users without causing problems. SecuROM is just how you're justifying to yourself receiving the software they paid money to produce, without paying for it.

Re:What's so great about this game?

[jayhawk88]

I imagine someone saying something very similar right before the release of SimCity and TheSims. "It's just creating a city, how many times through do you really need to play it?"

Re:Importing

[UberHoser]

Holy crap on wheat toast ! $82 for a game ?????

pass.

Re:Good luck to australian gamers

[Paradigm_Complex]

Not buying it because of SecuROM is certainly justified, but not buying it because EA is using Cider rather than making a real Mac port is just silly. The only thing EA is going to actually understand from this is that they're not getting Mac sales and they wasted time and money getting this thing cross-platform on PC's.

Unless you *don't* want them making it on the Mac at all - or if it just plain doesn't work well under Cider - than don't let the fact it's not native stop you from getting it. While making games for the Mac is still so uncommon this kind of thing should be encouraged, not discouraged. Later when it's considered SOP to make games of the Mac you can go ahead and complain about such things.

Re:Good luck to australian gamers

[Das Modell]

Modded troll? I didn't think there'd be anyone on Slashdot (or anywhere else) who actually likes SecuROM.

Re:What's so great about this game?

[Crookdotter]

I've never understood this attitude. Everything in the world is repetitive. Pick a game, ANY game. Football, darts, rugby, World Of Weirdos, Half Life, etc etc. They are ALL repetitive. That's what games are.
Spore might not be a good game, but being repetitive should never be seen as a negative. Games are repetitive, and repetitive != dull.

Re:Good luck to australian gamers

[SoCalChris]

What about buying the game, then installing a downloaded version to keep their crap off of your system? I've done that before, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.