Is Spore hot coffee waiting to spill?
People are already creating amazing things with the Spore creature creator (I realise this isn’t the best example of something amazing, but damn it I loved that game), stuff that probably even the most forward-thinking smartey-pants at Maxis never dreamed of.
People are also, of course, making penis monsters and walking, yelping goatsecx dolls. And, trust me, creations that are far more vile.
Is this going to be an issue? The creator is so wide open that, to anyone in the know at least, it won’t seem like a big deal - it would be like taking Autodesk to task for a creation in 3DS Max - but will the world at large, and I mean the press here, mostly, see it that way?
Basically what I’m saying is, when a nutty political blog starts posting pictures of the Spore creature that’s a black man hanging from a tree, are people going to be outraged?