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* [[Hate Dumb]]: Some people feel that Spore is really a big piece of crap and a giant toy for little kids (and probably [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|haven't even played it]]. See [[Hype Backlash]] for some other reasons.

** It's ridiculous. First they're angry about how the game didn't turn out the way they wanted. Then, to remedy this, Maxis made a "Creepy and Cute" parts pack, full of gruesome-looking parts and paint-jobs (well, also some cute ones, but these, too, can be made gruesome-looking if you're creative). How do they respond? ''[[Unpleasable Fanbase|They boycott it because it costs 20 dollars.]]'' Well, they basically said that it wasn't a true expansion pack, despite the fact that it was a PARTS PACK, not an expansion pack! Then Galactic Adventures comes out, which everyone except ''them'' is excited about. Why? Because it happened to be easy enough for an 8-year old to figure out and didn't come with all the complex functions that they dreamed of using to make Game Maker-esque adventures. One reviewing member of the Sporum gave it a ''16/30''. The only justifiable complaints really center around the "Robot Parts" Dr. Pepper promotion, because the sodas are only available in the United States and had problems unlike the Creepy and Cute parts pack. To make it worse, the deadline of the parts was extended to the end of 2011 but the codes of no longer being made. Some think that the parts will be availible to everyone once the promotion finally ends.

*** And then Maxis made yet another attempt to please some of the older players who weren't satisfied with Spore by making Darkspore, a [[Darker and ~~Edgier|Darker And~~ Edgier]] [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|spinoff of Spore]]. [[Unpleasable Fanbase|Cue the players yammering on about how Maxis was just trying to make a "hardcore Spore" to coverup the "failure" that Spore was]] and how it won't be able to compete with similar Action-RPG titles like Diablo. Also, many complained about Spore having a lack of blood and violence because Old Spore had it, but when Darkspore sceenshots revealed what they wanted, they complained that there was ‘too much blood’. Maxis attempted to fix this by giving the option to replaced the blood effects with E-DNA.

*** And then Maxis made yet another attempt to please some of the older players who weren't satisfied with Spore by making Darkspore, a [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|spinoff of Spore]]. [[Unpleasable Fanbase|Cue the players yammering on about how Maxis was just trying to make a "hardcore Spore" to coverup the "failure" that Spore was]] and how it won't be able to compete with similar Action-RPG titles like Diablo. Also, many complained about Spore having a lack of blood and violence because Old Spore had it, but when Darkspore sceenshots revealed what they wanted, they complained that there was ‘too much blood’. Maxis attempted to fix this by giving the option to replaced the blood effects with E-DNA.

** Also in Galactic Adventures, don't dare make a Clark & Stanley spoof; you '''will''' be burnt ''alive'' by more serious adventure makers. Unless the adventure is satire or a real, quality piece of work, unlike the 'adventures' that many people made starring the duo.

*** It should be worth noting that the original fans of Old Spore (which is the version of Spore as seen in the 2005 and 2006 demo) declared that not only Spore is a dissapointment, it's the BIGGEST dissapointment in gaming history and nothing will ever top it. OK, they really didn't say that, they just said it was a really big dissapointment.

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* [[Hype Backlash]]: Big time. Parts of the game were first demoed years before the game was finally released to ''great'' excitement, and the hype grew from there. When the game was finally released, it was painfully obvious not all of the demoed features made it into the final product, resulting in a ton of [[Hype Backlash]]. Even trying to take the game on its own merits, many reviewers gave it [[So OK Its Average]] scores. However, even if it didn't live up to the hype, it has been far from a failure; with a huge user community, many wonderful creations, successful expansion packs and companion games.

** But this still doesn't stop people from throwing a fit though.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Lethal Joke ''Weapon'', in this case. The Shaman Parts, while using up no captain energy, deal much less damage than the energy-guzzling Warrior parts, and only two of them do any damage at all. But the "Summon Swarm" weapon has an interesting quirk. It [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|summons a swarm of bees]] to torture and distract an enemy for several seconds, making the enemy run around screaming in pain. If you use it when the enemy is near lava, he will run around on air unaffected by gravity and fall into the lava when the swarm wears off. Got a high-health enemy you could never beat? Got some lava around? Use the Summon Swarm!

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Lethal Joke ''Weapon'', in this case. The Shaman Parts, while using up no captain energy, deal much less damage than the energy-guzzling Warrior parts, and only two of them do any damage at all. But the "Summon Swarm" weapon has an interesting quirk. It [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|summons a swarm of bees]] to torture and distract an enemy for several seconds, making the enemy run around screaming in pain. If you use it when the enemy is near lava, he will run around on air unaffected by gravity and fall into the lava when the swarm wears off. Got a high-health enemy you could never beat? Got some lava around? Use the Summon Swarm!

* [[Memetic Mutation]]" Somewhat. The [[The Chew Toy|Clark and Stanley]] adventures are painfully popular within the casual Spore community because of the easily gained points and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|humorous deaths]]. [[Sturgeon's Law]] applies to nearly all of them, unsurprisingly.

** The Hugmonster and for the forums, the emoticone.

* [[Mis Blamed]] ([[Word of God|Will Wright]] personally took responsibility for the controversial shift in game direction from "Science" to "Cute" when one of his teammates was accused[http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/210/8555.page#137577\]. [[Fan Dumb|People still like to place the blame elsewhere]], [[What Measure Is a Mook?|for various]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|reasons]].

** Also, many claim that the reason why Will Wright left EA is because his game was ruined by the people who published it. This is not true but the reason why Will left is because he wanted to work for The Stupid Fun Club, which is a company he formed with his friends. But Will says that EA will still publish games, so nothing really major happened.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: [[Deal ~~With~~ the Devil|Allying with the Grox]] could be considered one. ''Everyone'' except for your closest allies will want to kill you. Even species you've uplifted afterwards.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: [[Deal with the Devil|Allying with the Grox]] could be considered one. ''Everyone'' except for your closest allies will want to kill you. Even species you've uplifted afterwards.

* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: The sound of your communicator beeping as your colonies and allies beg you to save them from pirates/ecodisaster/invasion for the millionth time; while you are busy handling another person's crisis, ''on the other side of the galaxy.'' Luckily, patches, fan-made mods, and improvements that can be bought in the game tone this down and take care of it for you.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Adventure Town. Many user-created missions are basically "blow up Adventure Town/Adventure Town sucks/Monsters attack Adventure Town".