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Stryc9Fuego:
I wonder how it will balance out between the people turned off of Spore from all the "sporn" and the degenerates that it hooks in.

KvP:
EA's pretty furious about it, but you know, there's a reason there's the disclaimer along the lines of "Online experience not rated by the ESRB". That having been said, EA is going to crack down, given that Spore is ostensibly rated E (or maybe that was just the creature creator?). They'll probably monitor online creations through accounts with software and such, and disable accounts (effectively making Spore a waste of money) when they find Sporn. When you buy Spore, your worlds will probably only be populated with the 15,000 or so pre-made creatures in the Sporepedia and you can have the option of browsing user's creations and adding them, so there'll be no chance of your 5 year old being randomly subjected to faux-penises.

Melodic:
Except that Spore has already seen over half a million creatures created. That is a shitload of monitoring that I will bet EA isn't prepared to cough up money for. So we all get penis creatures.

KvP:
So they have the choice of scaling back their random creature implementor to a more manageable state (it was due for an overhaul as recently as last beta anyway) or implementing sloppy and user-unfriendly censoring software, which wouldn't be out of character for EA. The whole "community" aspect of Spore was seriously overhyped anyway. There's no reason the floodgates have to be welded open. Players should be given complete control over the range of creatures that can show up in their game.

Melodic:
Which I think is the role the Spore Catalog will eventually fulfill, on par with the Sims user-creation library. I'd imagine that things like user rating, or popularity, will also have an impact on things. Better-built creatures are bound to be more popular than, say, a one-eyed pogo-stick monster with 12 wings.

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