That's kind of true, people who didn't hype this game too much are probably having a good time enjoying Spore's awesomeness (seriously, it's kind of good) ^^ !
-How people who hyped too much think : Heyyy I tought we could customise more in tribal stage and that the space stage would be more like a sandbox but you actually have to unlock stuff ... blah blah blah tons of complaining
-People who didn't hype : Hey nice, those stages are finely designed, it's rare for me to see a game with so much customisation, even the building and vehicles can be customised in the civilisation stage and the space stage is amazing, you can do lot of stuff like terraforming !
Also, man stop saying the game is short, creating a nice creature or building could easily take 2 hours and the space stage is f****** long, especially if you take some of your time to trade for fun and to terraform for a while...
Also you can do the game at hard with 3 different kind of species...