Agree with JRaccoon, what do they want exactly. Spore was over-hyped, but a decent game if you subtract they hype.
The issue of spore was that they promised a lot in one game, it was too much and they had to compromise to fit it in, in the end it was just not it. I think Thrive underestimates the effort required to make such a game.
Also, I wonder why they use a free forum for it. Seems amateurish for a project with this ambition. Now the forum loads properly, but earlier it loaded pages really slow. Even received timeouts.