EA promises Spore for Mac later this year

Oh, right, just like all the other "great" cider ports, which are for "Macs". Intel chipset not supported, buggy on all other systems. Oh boy.
Sorry if I don't get to excited over this.
EA can take their terrible ports and shove them up their....

My only worry is that they charge a higher price for the Mac version, or that the price doesn't drop at the same rate as the PC version.

Honestly, I just prefer Boot Camp. At least then I know it will work, even if Windows XP is stupid and can't see all 4GB of RAM on my MacBook.

Cider is OK, but EA is pathetically lazy about utilizing it. I hear you, #5, on BF2142, though; I think EA's "porting guys" were drunk when they shoved that one out the door.

Anyway, that's Spore accounted for - now if Fallout 3 is on the Mac, I can kiss my chances of graduating on time goodbye!

and yet another game that wont run in ppc g5... this really sucks...

I was very excited about this game coming to mac, but now I'm a little worried. Cider technology is just not great. The EA games that have been released so far are very unstable, text often appears garbled, and they require a ton of processor overhead. I understand that it's easier to use Cider, but dang, for a game this big couldn't they have hired a couple guys to make it Mac native?!

I am in the same situation, although I have a PC I built for gaming I'd like to see this game run on my MacBook, but I fear the graphics requirements will be too much.

However, my MacBook does run World of Warcraft without too much trouble. I guess we'll see.

Last I heard, Spore was going to use a new 3D rendering method where it used crazy algorithms to procedurally generate all the content you see using your CPU. Hopefully that plan is still in effect, since it puts most of the work on number crunching rather than your GPU. I would KILL to have Spore work on my MacBook. Plus, it's Robin Williams endorsed, and you can't go wrong with that!

Nice, this game looks very promising, and certainly has a lot of people I know very excited, some of which are Mac users. I fear however that my humble Macbook will be left out anyway, even with a Mac version (I don't know how much this game takes, but integrated intel graphicas are not the best solution for games)