Spore release date delayed until between April 2008 and end 2009

9 May 2007

Posted by:Ferry

In a conference call to discuss Electronic Arts’ financial results, they said that Will Wright’s highly anticipated evolution sim, Spore, is no longer in the company’s plans for the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2008. Most in the industry had expected the game to be released later in 2007, perhaps in time for the holiday shopping season. But it won’t be in 2007, at the earliest Spore will be released in April 2008, but EA has said the game could be delayed until the fiscal year 2009 that starts in April 2009! Recently Spore has received a final release date of September 7th, 2008, on PC, Mac and DS.

The game probably needs to evolve a little more.

You’re probably a little sad about this news, let’s try and cheer you up with comedian Robin Williams demoing Spore.

Via Gamedaily & Slashdot

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lx

the fiscal year of 2009 begins on 1 april 2008 fool
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WHAT THE F*CK!?
Erick

The delay is in the hands of EA. They are the ones holding the game hostage just because they want to focus on a selling prime time. What they are failing to understand is that this game would have broken sales records over a year ago, the fan base is peaking already and now the patient community is growing restless.
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Spore has had very little information released considering the size of the project and the anticipation around it. Check their site and see just how frequently they do updates. Compare that to any other game in development right now. I can’t help but wonder why.
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I only hope they don’t put so many delays on this game that it becomes financially impractical to actually release. People have been getting paychecks for working on this game and the project has gone on for a long time….they are just digging a deeper hole to climb out of before they can get into the black.
A guy

I heard it was being released on March 3, 2008. What’s with this April 09 stuff?
micro102

wel from what ive seen, the thing that is taking them so long is the actual content. they have to make 2000000 planets and 1000′s of creatures, plants, veh, and buildings so it might take a while…..

but this game has been delayed for 2 years and they completly redid the cell stage. they messed up big time.
http://www.goggle.com McLovin

WHAT THE F*CK!
Anonymous

From the official web page SWEET!!

SPORE In The News
EA AND MAXIS TO SHIP SPORE IN SEPTEMBER
Redwood City, CA – February 12, 2008 – Get ready for the next Big Bang this fall! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore™, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™, will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7. Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS™, and mobile phones.

“The wait is almost over,” said Maxis Chief Designer Will Wright. “We’re in our final stages of testing and polish with Spore, and the team at Maxis can’t wait to see the cosmos of content created by the community later this year.”

Spore gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers
Dewey1234

F@#$ this game. Everytime i search the release date for it the game has been delayed another 4+ months.
Chimcharlover13

What’s so great about Spore?
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