I quote baza's announcement on spore forums
Maxisbazajaytee wrote:
If you happen to play Spore and Darkspore, you may or may not have seen the notice yesterday on the Darkspore Forums that we will be shutting down Darkspore on the 1st March 2016.
This decision wasn't an easy one to be made.
Rest assured, the decision to shut down Darkspore does not have any relation to Spore and its services, especially as we spent so many months bringing it back online recently
I just wanted to jump in and assure you that Spore is going strong before any rumours start to the contrary.
this is not referring to the server shut down in 2012-2014,rather the shut down of the game itself.