Spore EULA shows up on Valve's Steam service

by Alexander Sliwinski { Dec 17th 2008 at 11:20AM }

Despite having its own digital distribution system, it appears Electronic Arts is ready to start using Valve's Steam store. ShackNews discovered that the end user license agreement for Spore has shown up on the Steam site. If Spore is released on Steam, it would be the first internally-developed title released by EA on Valve's platform.

We've contacted both Valve and EA for comment. We'll update if any new information evolves.

Tags: ea, electronic-arts, spore, steam, valve

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Haggard @ Dec 17th 2008 11:24AM

First internally developed, but Crysis and Crysis Warhead are available on there (with the latter still including EA's draconian DRM).

cypher19ign @ Dec 17th 2008 11:32AM

Well, Crysis ( |Warhead) was published through the EA Partners program. One could say that TOB and L4D are in the same boat, really.

DJisGOD @ Dec 17th 2008 11:51AM

crysis and warhead were not internally developed by ea they are by crytek and published by ea theres a difference

Haggard @ Dec 17th 2008 1:09PM

I assume that was a reply to me, but I fucked up too so no hard feelings. What I meant was "yes, this is the first internally developed EA game to appear on Steam, but Crysis.." etc

DBoyFlex @ Dec 17th 2008 11:52AM

Aside from the DRM stuff, is spore really that bad a game?

deaftly @ Dec 17th 2008 12:22PM

Total snoozefest man

Blazur @ Dec 17th 2008 12:22PM

The gameplay is very tedious and repetitive, and honestly doesn't present all that much of a challenge. If you enjoy making things then the game is certainly worth it, because the editors are brilliant. If you're looking for an enjoyable game tho, don't expect to be blown away by the mechanics.

justshovejayohbe @ Dec 17th 2008 12:38PM

I think it was a lot of fun... It could have used more fleshing out, but I'm sure expansion packs will take care of that

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Dec 17th 2008 6:07PM

It's a hit or miss: personally I disliked it because it felt like 5 cheap clones of various games (because of the different gameplay throughout the different phases)... BUT I know a few people who loved it to death.

Spore isn't a "game" where you have rules and victory conditions, obviously, but if you can be entertained by constantly noodling around with how your creatures are going to look like and how they're going to survive in your habitat, go try it.

arrakisman @ Dec 18th 2008 8:42AM

Sometimes in games like these it helps to make your own goals before you start up. I decided to create the StarControl races. Spothi are a still the best ones I have done so far.

Biggie @ Dec 17th 2008 12:03PM

It would be nice if EA started to release their stuff on steam. Too bad I asked for Spore for Christmas, guess I will be playing with my CD in the drive... Wishful thinking but a retroactive cdkey authorization system for all Steam EA games would be incredible, good for EA as it hurts the resale market, not that PC has a really big one.