What will happen? =)

[Spoonfairy]

Havent played this game for months, no real reason why I quited. So now I tought about started playing this game again, but all I see is like "news" being months old and something about the Maxis team working on some other project insted of darkspore.
Hoped to be able to see things like a new champion, or least some new mobs, maps and so on (ok there is one new map, I think, 5 months ago)

So now I am asking, what is the future for this game, will you guys still make new fun patches, this game has lots of potential.

[Pepsi132]

I think everyone agrees there is lots of potential, but because ea didn't advertise much, darkspore didnt sell that much, so I doubt maxis is going to spend time on this game, as they wouldn't benefit much from it.
I wish it wasn't so... Still praying for new contents, but that hope gets smaller each day.
This is my frustration with maxis ( not trying to be mean or start a fight) they create what are potentially the greatest games ever, take spore for example, it couldve been the best game out there, but it got abandoned like many other games. Enter darkspore, amazing pottential, but yet again, abandoned!!! So frustrating!!!

[quasar23]

Yeah, same here. I stopped playing this game sometime during the summer, even though I was still wrapped up in it. No real reason, besides the lack of new content. I came bad here because we had a light homework load and I happen to remember it at the time, go to patch notes, and there is nothing since DB's palace. I might go back to this game again, though. As stated, lots of potential. Really to bad it wasn't exploited to it's full extent.

Anyway, I think the New Hero Contest died... A shame. It was one of my favorites.

[ludak021]

lot's of people played the beta and concluded that the game isn't worth 20$. If it were under 10$ there would be a lot more players and maybe then Maxis would care more about the game. Let's face it, there isn't really enough content in the game to keep you in it for more than a month or two, actually, you can see almost everything the game has to offer in one afternoon so...

personally, I think this was "take the money and run" business model so I wouldn't expect any meaningful changes to the game...

[Pepsi132]

I was never actually expecting free new content anyway, I was expecting expansions and parts, maybe to such an extent as much as the sims...
But expansions would only sell as many or less than the number of origional copies of darkspore bought. I can't stress this enough, WHY DIDN'T THEY ADVERTISE! Face it, I would say about 90% of players only know this game through spore, or through someone who plays spore. I personally saw no tv adds, no posters, no Internet adds. It then doesn't take a genius to know why it didn't do as well as it should've.
Could they "relaunch" it? I think so, get more active workers on the forums, advertise a lot, and at least send out a small patch, even without new content, it will make players think they haven't abandoned!

[Zekchromium]

The good thing is there will always be someone on: me.

[Konigswolf]

The reason they didn't advertise is because
a) The game wasn't technically "ready" for any form of sales
b) Only a niche audience of Spore players would bother buying (I for one bought the Special Edition, and I found it to be a waste of money )
c) What could they advertise? It doesn't have next gen graphics, cut-scenes of commercial value, or even voice acting within gameplay. It doesn't have the massive array of possibilities Spore had, and even Spore wasn't advertised heavily.

Frankly even now in its death-throws (unless of course they're going to release more...doubtful imho) the game is extremely rough, had EA not ruined Maxis, I believe this game would've stayed in production for a solid year, and after extensive testing and polishing be released as a kicka** game.

Don't get me wrong I still play spore to this day, but Darkspore just doesn't pull me in as much, and the "hero has too many detail parts" bug (Which has existed since the beginning...) keeps me from devoting time to editing Heroes, let alone playing the game.

[XxAsmodeus23]

While i'd hoped it would be otherwise i agree with wolf and all the others. This game was effectively dead a few months after the release, i probably wouldn't have known about it had i not by accident seen the add on Spore.com (one of the only places it was advertised). Still while the game may be dead in the eyes of the devs, we can still keep it alive as long as we go on from time to time. Maybe also getting others to buy the game, at least to show Maxis that we aren't done with the game. If they won't advertise it anymore why don't we?

[MrZeta]

There are several other games out there like Skyrim, ACreed, Arma, LOTRO, LINN2, GW1/2...all great games - but one thing about the Spore series that stands out is the character customization. I guess there is a 'too-many-details' bug, amongst others, that have not been dealt with - IE no support on a retail game. I never played the Sims...I think the Maxis games are the best games out there - Simcities etc...

I, or we, may now be running into a bigger problem - hacked and stolen keys. I bought a LimEd from a vendor, box an all; should be okay, but I still worry; it was free for me on my Amazon account and the vendors are verified.

People that do good bizness is fine lets hope they dont get bad items to sell.

If mine fails I just gonna try to get my refund if EA cant fix it then buy it off EA I dont care; I stopped playing GW2 to come here - same deal - repetitive gameplay, but I am kind of a space nut and play Star Trek Online Free now too - very good game over there to its free to play and worth $100 for the endgame ships.

Cash shops that are not pay to win are the new entry too. I would like to see this game go 3d, like Halo or sumthin...it's be perty awesome!

BTW I played the Beta - thought it was $50 retail - I forget now. I also read Tork was revamped so old players coming back may find new challenges and us noobs - ya - will find it harder? We just have to farm levels a few times...and the level farming is nice too as the mob levels seem to grow with you!

MrZeta

[XxAsmodeus23]

Ya Tork died after the patch and very few old veterans go online anymore

[AtimZarr]

Ya Tork died after the patch and very few old veterans go online anymore

Well, I was on yesterday for a bit, and I consider myself a veteran .It has been a while since I saw another "veteran" player though.

And I have never ever ever liked Tork. Ever. Or any other Tempest for that matter. Except Sage. Sage is good.

[Crow149]

Tork is VERY good when combined with Zrin and Jinx...seriously, you'd be surprised. But yeah, Sage and Lumin are the 2 tempests that are truly functional.

[XxAsmodeus23]

I have to say Lumin is the best of all of them tho. Same here about Tork, he didn't really grow on me.