Once again I was wasting time with StumbleUpon (I do that a lot if you haven't noticed). I came across something about Spore. The game was a huge hit as soon as it came out, and I personally like it a lot.

Anyway, this isn't something all that new or even new to me, but I remembered that I forgot to write about it (if that makes any sense). Not long after Spore came out, Electronic Arts already announced multiple expansions. I was very excited to hear this, though somewhat surprised that they would announce it so soon.

The first expansion is supposed to come out some time this month. It will be a pack of something like 100 new body parts for creature creation. The theme of these new part is "creepy and cute". I doubt that I'll buy this unless its like five dollars. Not that it sounds bad or anything, I just don't like paying real money for more stuff in a video game. Unless it's a true expansion that I'm buying I feel like my money isn't buying anything real, if that makes sense.

Another expansion I have also heard about is supposed to expand on the space stage of the game. It sounds to me like its basically just extending the story, even though it's not really a story. That I would maybe pay for. To me an expansion expands the game in some way, adding cute ears or whatever doesn't expand it or really change much of anything. I have not heard anything about release dates of any expansions except the first one.

I can totally see spore becoming the next Sims in terms of expansions. I mean, it is from the same creators and I think it's targeted at the same sort of audience. The topic of Spore is such that you could just keep adding to it or making it more detailed, much like the Sims expansions do. Spore allows for a great deal of replaying, and if you have the time and desire you can spend a lot of time customizing every little thing in the game. There are people who go crazy for that, and I believe that many will just like they did with all the Sims games. This upcoming expansions will be the first of many for a game that is sure to soon have a rapidly growing community of players.