Yeah I'll probably buy Spore just for the shear creative value of the game.

I'm boycotting spore and Mass Effect because of their bogus activation system. You have to reactivate the software every two weeks or you can't use it anymore and have to reinstall. So if I wanted to play a single player game because the Internet is out, I fire it up and it says you are expired...and the only benefit they get from it is jerking us around because you know someone will make an activation generator that you can capture with your /etc/hosts file...

Yep, I'll probably still get it to play around with because I can always get the hack to keep from having the issue. I just want to see how in depth they are going to make the system of building up a race, civilization, etc.