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Anonymous
8 years ago

#SaveTheSporum

EA/Maxis.

We, as buyers of your product, and a gaming community, have invested around 10 years of our lives to a site you created called the Sporum. This site, this wonderful forum, has a collective record-base of our ideas, projects, exchanges, and so much more. It is the home of many memorable personalities, lots of lore, inside jokes, and a whole world of friends and users who are oddly inner-twined and connected like family. We have invested countless hours into creatively expanding your game, bringing to life its concepts, and delving into deep artistic and gaming endeavors. We have been beyond patient with your shortcomings due to our deep love of the game, Spore.

But this is too much. You are shutting down something vital to the Spore community. Let's be honest, this new site is trash. Nobody is going to use it. When you kill the Sporum, you will effectively kill the Spore community. Permanently.

We do not want this to happen. We have spent a lot of time out of lives building this community. Frankly, this is completely unfair and we as a community feel cheated.

That is all.

- Darkel

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  • Hi @Darkel979

    Thank you for your constructive feedback.

    I can understand your frustration. I myself know the Spore Forum and am an old game veteran myself for more than 20 years.
    Nevertheless, the forum is technically no longer uptodate and it needs to be improved.

    http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/87491.page

    Hence this decision.

    EA will do its best, as well as I here that you will feel good.
    Give us a chance, give the other players here a chance -they self a long time here .

    Only together will we keep Spore alive for a long time

    Cheers

    Liz

  • >Completely unfair
    >Coming from the same guy that uses link bombs on the sporum
    >Also coming from the same guy that wants to mass spam the forum before they shut it down.
    >10/10
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I’m not sure I know what you’re talking about.

  • You're right, to be honest, in my opinion, the best thing in the Sporum was the other users forum signatures with spectacular banners, GIFs, wise, serious or even funny quotes, and useful links towards their Sporepedia page, YouTube channel, awesome creations and so on. And of course, probably all of us saw at least one EA meme (about the stereotype that EA demands money for everything in-game), so yes, I'm already feeling uncomfortable here... #SaveTheSporum

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    you know full well pal

  • the current format is clearly designed to look cool and not be workable. Sporum felt easier to lose and less trashy and Commercial.

    I hate all the badges and the lack of borders between stuff.

    Link some good Alternatives.

  • I agree with both EA and Grox here. First of all yes the Sporum is old and the code barebones and in need of a remake for usability and security. However I also feel EA Ask is too strict and rigid and very much lacking in functionality. It lacks all the categories that made the Sporum the Sporum. There is no roleplay section, no Science and Spore section where we can geek out over trivia, ask scientific questions and talk about how the science relates to Spore and we don't even have an area with a specific focus on Adventures.

    I think its time the Sporum was not brought back but instead given a proper successor. I vote you guys give us a new updated Sporum to replace the old one.

  • A Science and Spore section. You're kidding me right? The last thing this tumble weed needs is drama stains from politics and whatever else stupid nonsense went on in that section. It also doesn't need a roleplay section. If you want to roleplay then go to a site meant for roleplaying. 

    This place needs work don't get me wrong, but the last thing I want to see is this place become something it isn't. My main issue is with its very obvious, very annoying bugs. Previews are broken. I can't even check to see if it shows up in this message or not because it gives me a blank white box with an almost endless scroll bar. 

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