That girlish high-pitched squeal of joy you might have heard far off in the distance was probably me.
I just got the e-mail from the Spore website with the official release date: September 7.
There had been a lot of speculation that the game was going to ship sometime in the spring, and the pre-order page at Amazon even gave a March shipping date, but then there was word from EA that the game would be held off until late fall. So early September is a pretty good compromise between the best and worst case dates, I think.
And that low murmur you can probably detect? That’s the sound of hundreds of gamers whispering "Please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck…"
UPDATED: Les at Stupid Evil Bastard passes along this link to an interview with Wil Wright as to why Spore has taken so damn long to finish.
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