Spore getting $80 'Galactic Edition'

48 Comments by Justin McElroy Jun 24th 2008 11:40AM
Filed under: PC, Simulations

By design, Spore is all-encompassing, with nigh infinite possibilities for gameplay, from crafting the very essence of life to managing entire galaxies. But sometimes, you have to go to the bathroom, it's a scientific fact. For those moments, there's the Spore Galactic Edition announced today by Gamestop, available for $79.99. In addition to the game, you'll get:

'Making of Spore' DVD video
'The Human Toolkit' DVD video, by National Geographic
'The Art of Spore' hardback mini-book
Fold-out Spore poster
Premium 100-page Galactic Handbook

So whether nature calls and you need reading material or your significant other wants to watch some TV, you'll have no problem keeping it Spore-centric. And yes, now that you mention it, that was a very depressing sentence.

[Thanks, Dalibor and KrAzYmAn]

Tags: gamestop, spore, spore-galactic-edition

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Raikage (GOLDEN Gun Of The Patriots): Jun 24th 2008; 11:47AM

I'm guessing the making of DVD will have pictures of all the crew's kids being born, going through high school, and graduating collage...

I'm looking forward to this...

:P

343 Guilty Fart: Jun 24th 2008; 12:49PM

I graduated from collage sometime in elementary school, mine had pictures of horses.

Triforceowner: Jun 24th 2008; 1:04PM

The sad thing is that when Duke Nukem Forever comes out this will be the case.

Triforceowner: Jun 24th 2008; 1:05PM

The sad thing is that when Duke Nukem Forever comes out this will be the case.

arrrgh: Jun 24th 2008; 1:09PM

collage class is always teh best class

Jonah Falcon: Jun 24th 2008; 1:53PM

Yeah. I mean, 4 years of development. (rolling eyes) How many 6 year old college grads are there?

Only 3 years since announcement.

Idiot.

Raikage (GOLDEN Gun Of The Patriots): Jun 24th 2008; 5:20PM

I willfully bend over for the grammar Nazis... that was bad.....

riggs: Jun 24th 2008; 11:47AM

Its gonna be a great game but what the galactic edition comes with sounds pretty weak. a poster....yay.

Mr.ESC: Jun 24th 2008; 11:48AM

Hai guis
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4PjLzot73yo

Don't know if want.Maybe if it included hitchhiker guide to the galaxy...

riggs: Jun 24th 2008; 11:51AM

my eyes....THEY BLEED

Raikage (GOLDEN Gun Of The Patriots): Jun 24th 2008; 11:55AM

Screw MGS4! THIS is the best game ever made!

Luke: Jun 24th 2008; 12:24PM

I don't click on link's you put up, seems dangerous.

Mr.ESC: Jun 24th 2008; 1:19PM

But can you live without knowing what/who/when or how is it/he/she/they?

forestofdeath: Jun 24th 2008; 1:38PM

goatsies all 'round. :D

Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award): Jun 24th 2008; 12:07PM

Considering I noticed SecuROM was utilizing 15%-25% of my CPU cycles despite not running the Spore program last night, I'm not buying. I'm tired of giving companies money so they can throw malware on my system. Fuck Spore...

Marty: Jun 24th 2008; 12:14PM

Gotta love that Sony software team, eh?

Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award): Jun 24th 2008; 12:23PM

Wouldn't know about the RootKit. Heard about it, found a list of effected CDs, realized I'd never buy Barry Manilow and never looked back. I had Starforce degrade by DVD burners performance for a while. Now apparently SecuRom does this weird thing sucking up resources on my machine (and when you're in Photoshop with a 10000x7500 image, yes that does matter). Don't know who's behind SecuRom, but I know it's off my system now.

Burritoclock: Jun 24th 2008; 12:40PM

developed by Sony DADC

Mez Jr: Jun 24th 2008; 1:19PM

At this point, I don't really understand PC games copy protection much at all.

It gets cracked fairly rapidly, thereby diminishing it's usefulness. However it makes life difficult for the paying customer.

The primary question game companies need to ask themselves is this: Are the people they are preventing from illegitimately using their games potential customers? Are you making a game that people would pay for?

This is why I wish they'd come out with spore for a console... ANY console, ALL consoles, because the game experience is more straight forward. Copy protection will be the death of PC gaming, not piracy.

BigD145: Jun 24th 2008; 1:27PM

Yeah, the DRM is conveniently left out of the list.

Bootes: Jun 24th 2008; 2:24PM

The copy protection is supposedly there to prevent casual copying. So that anyone can't just make a copy of a disc and give it to their friend or install the game on their friends computer. I don't understand why they're making the protection worse though. The people that want to crack it will always crack it. You don't need anything but the basic cd check to stop the normal people.

Lijik: Jun 24th 2008; 12:08PM

"'The Art of Spore' hardback mini-book"

I'm going to laugh so hard if this book is just one page that says something along the lines of "Theres nothing in here because YOU haven't made any creatures yet!"

Jonah Falcon: Jun 24th 2008; 1:53PM

Um, do you think the game comes with nothing on it?

HappyFunBall: Jun 24th 2008; 12:14PM

I'd probably buy this, if SecuROM wasn't included as a "feature".

Grant: Jun 24th 2008; 12:14PM

The EA money train is running strong i see.
I wonder when the $150 intergalactic edition comes out, with T-shirts, plush dolls, and a bobble head of the Will Wright Dressed up as God.

knighty: Jun 24th 2008; 12:20PM

....I'd totally buy that.

Geist: Jun 25th 2008; 12:31AM

Likewise. I think EA should get on this. I want a Will Wright bobblehead!

Grant: Jun 25th 2008; 2:05AM

lol.
I hate you guys so much right now.

Marty: Jun 24th 2008; 12:17PM

I'll probably be getting the game, but I doubt I'll be throwing down for the Galactic Edition. The extras, while cool, just aren't worth the added cost to me.

"Making of" videos for movies are cool, because you get to see how they did certain effects. With games, there's not really much magic to it. They programmed it, and it did what they wanted it to do. The end.

Mr.ESC: Jun 24th 2008; 12:23PM

Exactly is going to be a great game but the extras are boring.

The Human Toolkit' DVD video and the Galactic Handbook are the only interesting extras but don't add much.

tc: Jun 24th 2008; 12:18PM

This must be a prelude to the announcement that each section of Spore will be sold seperately for €10!

Todd: Jun 24th 2008; 12:19PM

Does the high price deluxe one come with no SecureROM?

jaybcorreia: Jun 24th 2008; 12:32PM

I'll probably buy the game for my friend shes obsessed with The Sims so I'm sure she would like this. don't know if I should pony up the 80 bucks tho for all the extras.

offday: Jun 24th 2008; 12:39PM

I'm good. Just give me the game.

Jon: Jun 24th 2008; 12:42PM

Why are there no extra IN GAME things ?? at least let me paint my Creatures Gold or something , more arms legs etc ... Something in game

Hackmysack: Jun 24th 2008; 1:10PM

dude spoke too soon Ea have already announced that they are going to have expansion packs like the sims ... hahaha, oh i love Ea they never really get the problem people have with them i mean Bf:Bc they actually got it when people petitioned. people don't want to have to pay an arm and a leg for an arm and a leg. i mean sims had free stuff on its website for ages till Ea saw the potential and the rest is history.

Jon: Jun 24th 2008; 1:15PM

They will charge $1 for each toe , $1.50 for each finger

arrrgh: Jun 24th 2008; 1:12PM

securom = no buy

Alex: Jun 24th 2008; 1:18PM

It should come with like a plush, figurine, or bobble head, without something along those lines in the package I'd rather just buy the standard edition.

Jonah Falcon: Jun 24th 2008; 1:30PM

I put down the $99.14 (price + overnight) without even pausing. I'm a Sporemaniac. :p

Kewlrats: Jun 24th 2008; 1:37PM

Look at that... my tips come through once in a long while after all!

back to the story: Do I care much about this super-Spore pack? Nah. I'll still buy the game (just the game), though.

Mr. Picklesworth: Jun 24th 2008; 3:18PM

I would buy this if it came with a voucher for a creature from their 3D printer. (Speaking of which, I wonder if that feature will come to fruition?).

I would also buy this if it did not come in one of those stupidly huge boxes.

Mike: Jun 24th 2008; 3:23PM

No thanks, I wouldn't buy this for $10. SecuROM has ruined this release for me. Thanks EA for fucking up my game I wanted to play.

You sheep who say you'll still buy it should read up on what this malware does to your computer first. Disables your DVD drive and burning software among other nasty stuff.

I've never torrented a game.. but this time I might. Good job EA.