On March 1st, 2016, Electronic Arts announced that they were shutting down the game's servers. Similar to Spore, it also had a 'Hero Editor', which was the equivalent of Spore's 'Creature Creator'. player) and was quite similar to Blizzard's Diablo series. The gameplay of Darkspore was mostly single-player, but it also featured online co-op and PvP (player vs. Electronic Arts' disclaimer for Darkspore's shutdown.