EA clear up some misinterpretations about micro-transactions in Spore

Aaron pointed me to an article recently that got us worried about having to pay for some content in Maxis’s Spore. The worry we had was the supposed in-game Micro-transactions. These would allow a player to buy new content for the editors in the game.

It now looks like EA have tried to clear up this rumour with the following statement which was posted on the Spore Evolve Fansite. I don’t have who from EA quoted this as Spore Evolve have yet to link it but I have asked them to let me know & will added the EA reps name here as soon as I get it.

The quote in full:

“ Sharing or “downloading” player created content is a core feature of Spore, not at all something that is part of the Spore Store or even under consideration for additional charge. The entire game is based on players making creatures, buildings, and vehicles which can be accessed from what we call our Sporepedia – a web based collection of all player created assets.

The Spore Store simply gives players the ability to purchase out-of-game merchandise such as t-shirts and posters or any additional game products we might make down the road such as expansion packs. For example, we are working with a company to provide the option for 3D versions of a player’s creature to be made and the Spore Store is where that purchase would originate.

We have also mentioned that we will be providing the Creature Creator tool as a stand alone product in the month or two before the game launches so that players can begin to design their creatures, but we do not have plans to sell individual parts via micro-transactions.”

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