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Australian gamers living on the East Coast will get a quaint little treat with their Saturday paper. No, it's not some silly commemorative trinket or oldies music CD, but a DVD containing the full version of the Spore Creature Creator. Thanks to Electronic Arts teaming up with east coast publications, anyone who picks up a copy of the Daily Telegraph (NSW), Herald Sun (VIC), or Courier-Mail (QLD) on Saturday August 2, 2008 will score themselves a copy, while the rest will have to wait until the final retail release of the full version.

Originally released last month, the game's online service, Sporepedia, had over 260,000 creatures uploaded withing 24 hours of the release. The Spore Creature Creator allows players to create, customise and design their life forms any way they want. However, this full version will contain 100% of the anatomy options, unlike the 25% that were available at the original release. Finally, those who keep the DVD slips from the game will be eligible for a $15 discount at their local EB Games outlet when the full game is released.

Unfortunately, unless the residents of the non-participating states have a nearby agency that supplies any of the above publications, they'll have to wait until the final release of Spore on September 4. For those who do pick up a copy, we'll appreciate it if you don't sully our poor tortured eyes which still can't forget the aftermath of the original release.

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38 Comments

G3ck0

3 years ago

What do you mean you can't forget the aftermath? I haven't been keeping up with Spore until we got a new Mac yesterday.

DancesInUnderwear

3 years ago

Penis creatures I assume.

No Adelaide? Anyone from one of these states wanna hook me up with one?

legend166

3 years ago

Awesome. Guess I'll be picking up the Tele on Saturday.

heatseeker

3 years ago

legend166 wrote

Awesome. Guess I'll be picking up the Tele on Saturday.

as will i.

NegativeZero

3 years ago

It's not free for Herald Sun purchasers last I checked. Not only do you have the sting of having to buy a dodgy paper, you also have to drop $2 to get the thing.

RWS

3 years ago

i thought you had to pay $2 extra or something?

BurnZ

3 years ago

Guess I've got the newspaper hookups.

Zhou

3 years ago

so..

im getting conflicting information here...

"Australian gamers living on the East Coast will get a quaint little treat with their Saturday paper. No, it's not some silly commemorative trinket or oldies music CD, but a DVD containing the full version of the Spore Creature Creator"

THEN

towards the end of the article..

Finally, those who keep the DVD slips from the game will be eligible for a $15 discount at their local EB Games outlet when the full game is released.

so this is the full version..but not?

BurnZ

3 years ago

It's the full version of the Spore Creature Creator, still need to buy Spore though. The SCC that was released on the net was only a demo with limited things.

G3ck0

3 years ago

Basically, the creature creator lets you create spore creatures, but the full game is the full game. You can't do much with your creatures in the creature creator, but their is a whole game with the full game, with different stages for your spore etc.

Passa

3 years ago

Wait, what? I thought the Creature Creator was already a free download?

What's this 250mb archive I downloaded then?

G3ck0

3 years ago

Passa wrote

Wait, what? I thought the Creature Creator was already a free download?

What's this 250mb archive I downloaded then?

The free download is a trial, with only 25% of the objects. The paid for one has 100% of the objects.

Benza

3 years ago

Passa wrote

Wait, what? I thought the Creature Creator was already a free download?

What's this 250mb archive I downloaded then?

The trial was, the full one has heaps more options.

Lord Haart

3 years ago

Yep, the free "demo" was actually a demo of a demo.

If EA thinks this is gonna make me forgive them, they're gonna have to try just a little harder. I live in Perth. :/

shiraj

3 years ago

herald sun it is on Saturday ....

Trantor

3 years ago

I just got it (nice newsagent) and there $2 with the herald sun, not free, but still worth it

TheAnswer

3 years ago

Its free with a purchase of the Telegraph in Sydney, I could probably get a few for people so if you can PM me if you're interested I can help you out, I'll just charge the cost of the paper + postage to you.

Passa

3 years ago

Lord Haart wrote

Yep, the free "demo" was actually a demo of a demo.

Um.. wow. That's sad really, especially since people creating creatures is only beneficial for the development of the game.

Luckily I get the paper delivered to my door each day (it costs teachers $10 a year or something stupidly small like that..). Also unluckily those Sunday paper freebies never come with delivered papers.

****.

xdarkcodex

3 years ago

wait wait wait wait... so is this the full one or not?

DancesInUnderwear

3 years ago

Spore - the full Spore game. Build creatures, ships, travel the universe, etcetra, etcetra. To be purchased from a store in September.

Spore Creature Creator - build creatures. Has every single part to be used for creature creation. Doesn't do anything else. Get it with a newspaper tomorrow.

Spore Creature Creator Demo Version - build creatures. Has only 25% of the total number of creature parts. Doesn't do anything else. You can download it for free, as of last month or so.

Understand?

Qbert

3 years ago

Passa wrote

Luckily I get the paper delivered to my door each day (it costs teachers $10 a year or something stupidly small like that..).

wait wait wait wait... I've been living with teachers my entire life* and we've never got this. Can you please tell me how to get my family to go about this so we aren't paying for the paper 365 days a year.

So $2 for the creature creator and $2 for the newspaper...seems a little bit much to play a part of the game 2 months or so earlier, but I'll still probably get it.

*My mother, sister, brother and brother-in-law are teachers, just me and dad who aren't just in case you think I'm living in some sort of 24/7 bording school or have a fetish for spending time with teachers 24/7.

BurnZ

3 years ago

Of course your not a teacher Qbert, you're too busy being a Doctor.

TheAnswer

3 years ago

Ok, I have 2 extra copies I picked up this morning if people are interested.

G3ck0

3 years ago

I got the Courier Mail (in Brisbane) and there is no token for spore, and the newsagent had never heard of it.

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