Re: Darkspore Offline Crack Torrent
Cinty Bolner
I loved playing Darkspore, it took Spore to a new level. It left some of the great features of Spore and combined it with an online game with a great plot. I used to play the game with my family while I was overseas, it was nice to be able to play a game together even while so far away. I was however sad to discover that the server had been taken offline (it was unfortunate I never received an e-mail notice before hand), and now I can't play at all. I know servers for this kind of things are expensive to maintain, but why take the server down if there is no offline option? I still see the game sold in stores; so now I'm warning friends not to buy since it is, at the moment, a worthless investment. I spoke with a game advisor and they suggested that I post this here to help gain attention/support for the matter.
Darkspore was a 2011 Action RPG PC game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It was an indirect sequel to 2008's Spore, a creature creation game also developed by Maxis. The game's graphical style was far different from its predecessor, taking on a more realistic and dark style. The game was most infamous for its always-online DRM, requiring an internet connection even if someone wanted to play single-player. This was put on top of already requiring Origin to run the game, which also required an internet connection at all times. On March 1st, 2016, Darkspore's servers were shut down, making the game entirely unplayable even with a physical copy of the game, as it still needs the servers to be up.
On March 1st, 2016, Electronic Arts announced that they were shutting down the game's servers. The closure was met with negative feedback, with Mark Richard of TechRaptor stating that the shutdown of Darkspore was "banishing the title from gaming history"[1] and Clint Basinger of Lazy Game Reviews saying in a video review that, while he didn't like the game much, the game being shut down was "an assault on history". He also criticized the game's convoluted DRM system as well as DRM in general, stating that Darkspore was a reminder of the cons of DRM platforms such as Origin and Steam.
As previously stated, the game can't be played in any way currently, and unless EA/Maxis make an offline option available, bring back the servers, or another party somehow hacks the game to get past the DRM, it may never be playable again.
In December 2018, Reddit user VitorMM wrote a topic about his attempts at making Darkspore work on a private server running on Python. After searching over the code, VitorMM discovered that, when trying to boot, Darkspore attempts to find the domain where the bootstrap is located, which Electronic Arts closed down back in 2016, thus leading to the connection error message.[2] Since then, he has been hard at work making Darkspore playable once again by cracking down its in-game DRM. VitorMM states that his goal is to make all copies of Darkspore, whether they were bought on Steam, Origin, or a disc, to be playable without the need of purchasing the game a second time. With time VitorMM gathered more programmers to help him work on making the game playable, with the project now under the name Darkspore-LS.
As of July 2019, the team behind Darkspore-LS has managed to make the "Play" button functional and gaining access to the Login screen.[3] While the team has already gained access to the Hero Editor, the game's single-player campaign is yet to be playable, either being connected to the Internet or offline. The project has since been renamed Resurrection Capsule.
Darkspore was a pretty good game, but it's biggest flaw: Always online. This always online approach was OK in the early days of Darkspore, but now that EA has closed the servers, no one can play the game at all. There could be some other improvements to the game, but I propose that we get an offline mode for Darkspore so we can at least play the game. This killing of games has to stop. It makes no sense to just stop people from playing a game many people would still enjoy to play. We have seen this happen to different games over the years. We need to stop this and if they don't want to put servers up at least make the game PLAYABLE. It shouldn't take long and EA could even make money from it: people could start buying the game again since you would actually be able to play it. But instead they killed it.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying Warframe is dead, I'm not saying it's going to die anytime soon. I'm just having a little discussion about what happens when it eventually does, be it in 2 years, 5, 10, 50...
Here's a link to a video that explains some things about online games (it auto-skips to the relevant part, and is over at around the 20 minute mark, but if you don't wanna watch 10 minutes, you can skip to 14:46):
If Warframe is the former, then this whole discussion will be over right away. No problem, we're good, bye. But if Warframe is the LATTER, then we need to have a serious talk about what DE should do when the inevitable happens (hopefully in the faaar future).
If Warframe indeed is the latter, then we need to make sure DE does the right thing, either patching the game to remove its crucial components from the server's side, or releasing the source code. That way the game can be kept alive by the community, and all the game's incredible history and progress wouldn't go to absolute waste at some point.
We speak here of total different game types, different studios and developers and there way of how they keep running stuff, amy it be due other projects nearby, or selling ingame items that are at times can be questionable.
No one cna say how a game will be or what way it goes, if it succeds or goes down, and everything has a end at times, if it comes, no one can change it, but it might be not due DE's decisions but more due time moved on with more games as this popped up for people to move on, better graphics or gameplay, some stay loyal.
Look at like WoW, it runs for severla years despite its old coding and age, alot also said it will die several times, and it sitll stands, i not like its way it gone and left shortly after Catacylsm as exampel, but also included friends stopped laying.
Especialy in Online games the content or graphic at times not even matters or the gameplay, but if freinds paly it also, you met people, make new friends, aslong people enjoy something it will keep getting played and videos like these, opinions are good don't get me wrong, but such is the oppsoite of hype, it tells people "this game could go down" and makes maybe even leave people in before becasue it scares them of, them thinking they waste time in something that could vanish soon.
This is more or less, don't get me wrong agian, "false propaganda" putting fear in peoples heart, telling them as said above, this game could be gone soon, so such should simply not be discussed honestly in such way, i mean wah will new palyers think fo this thread, it makes false assumptions.
As said opinions are opinions but, could we jsut enjoy the game for beeing a game instead of criticizing every detail and what DE could or will do wrong, some decisons are not even there own, they do it becasue of the money givers behidn them at times, like every developer is forced at times and the community cna rarley do much about it.
50 years from now my days will be spent trying to make it to the shtter on time. Lulz probably living on a farm somewhere while robots will be running the world. But I digress. On topic: I agree with the OP.
To me, DE seems like the kind of studio that would distribute a patch that made the game fully offline-playable if the servers were ever to be shut down (all things considered, that is a very big if).
I'm saying it from EA's perspective. Darkspore was just another online game to them. It wasn't exactly their most ambitious project that was shot down and ruined by publishers, and later reincarnated into an online game with no publishers whatsoever, against what everyone else was recommending them not to do, in a time where they were near bankruptcy, launched into tremendous success by thousands of founders that have basically saved the company's life and continue to carry it half a decade later, to the point where the game is one of the most incredible and unique online games ever.
agreed i also thought about this before, every online game is going to die eventually, just depends on when and for how long they can survive, i played need for speed world for a long time before EA closed it down, luckily some fan is crazy enough to mod it int offline playable and you can even create your own server and still play with your friends,i hope DE will do the same,make it offline playable, if warframe is ever going to go down
This layout appears to have once been used to inform the player that they can now activate more heroes. Stylistically, it is very similar to the Game Settings box seen in the earlier days of the Darkspore closed beta. In the final game, newly-activateable heroes are mentioned by name in a list, along with other level up-induced events.
At first glance, this layout appears to be the stats panel seen in the editor...but the stats panel used in-game is implemented in UTFwin, not Scaleform. Interestingly, the design seen in this layout differs slightly from the in-game version. Firstly, it has various fading animations when hovering over certain elements, which are not present in the UTFwin version. Secondly, the tabs at the top are shaped differently, and are positioned to the left in this layout, but they are rectangular and horizontally centered in the UTFwin version. Finally, there are two RadioButtons to the right of the tabs, which aren't present in the UTFwin version at all.
This layout appears to be an earlier method of setting up squads. Exactly how it would have worked is unclear. The final game uses a 3D environment for managing heroes and squads, rather than a simple menu.