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EA CEO Calls Spore The Greatest Creative Risk In The Industry

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John Ricitiello started his DICE keynote with a list of games he's currently playing-Burnout Paradise, BioShock, Portal. The one game he's playing that we're not is Spore, a title he said he'd become "fixated" on. While John got the crowd up to speed on his gaming chops, he admitted "Deep down, I'm a business guy." That helps explain Riccitiello's publicly expressed hesitance about the ultimate success of the Will Wright "SimEverything" game.

"It's probably the greatest creative risk maybe going on in the game industry today," he said, responding to audience questions about dealing with failure. Calling Spore "massive" he continued, "I believe it's going to be one of the greatest franchises in our industry and will rival World of Warcraft or The Sims or Rock Band. It's going to be right up there."

"Or not."
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Bonsai1214 - 685 days 7 hours ago
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i don't understand how this was a risk of a game. its made by Will Wright, the premise of what you can do is astounding, and anyone with half a brain can say that making this game is like printing money. the only thing that could possibly derail this is if it keeps getting pushed back. even if the game is subpar when its released, it'll still sell by the bucketload.
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permutated - 685 days 6 hours ago
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I haven't played a PC game for years, but this will bring me back to PC gaming.

It's a huge risk, but it's going to be a HUGE reward.

How could this game possibly fail?
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ravinash - 685 days 1 hour ago
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It would be nice if they created a console version..but if there is ging to be any game that brings me back to PCs, it'll be this one.
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Not the Face - 684 days 23 hours ago
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2.2 - i hear its coming to Wii in some form.
hope so...
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reaperxciv - 685 days 5 hours ago
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it's worth upgrading your pc
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danarc - 685 days 2 hours ago
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The requirements arent supposed to be that high, similar to Sims 2 I tihnk it was said :)
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Jdoki - 685 days 2 hours ago
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I guess the risk comes with trying to span multiple genres. There's potential for confusing the consumer.

Also the money it's cost to actually make them game may never be recouped.

Finally I suppose there's the risk the game will get average reviews and tank. The comment "I believe it's going to be one of the greatest franchises in our industry and will rival World of Warcraft or The Sims or Rock Band. It's going to be right up there." shows EA are probably going to take a loss on the first game and then spin in off in a million directions (like the Sims) to make a profit.

This game is right up there in my Most Wanted list and I can't wait. Depending on the spec's I may have to upgrade my PC finally!!
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e8t bit - 685 days 2 hours ago
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Under publicized is all I can think of. They should release it on consoles too to raise more revenue.
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Fighter - 684 days 23 hours ago
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6 - I like the idea of this game
As long as I don't have to update my PC I will probably get this.
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Mpiece - 684 days 21 hours ago
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definite buy been waiting form this since i first heard of it
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mintaro - 684 days 20 hours ago
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risks are often invovled in making something great
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