Beamer wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 11:21:

Creston wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 11:13:
1 million is nowhere near enough to make EA happy, especially given the fact they had to actually put up more servers. So this is likely the last we've ever heard of SimCity.

Creston

If they're smart, they realize they sold 1 million despite this bad press and realize that, if they do it right, they could easily triple that.

If they're smart.

What's happened is that a substantial section of the Chavs that you [author Owen Jones] wrote about have become black. The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion

Azusa wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 11:30:
The guy in Wyoming has more say because the system was designed that way. The founders wanted land owners to be more influential than city dwellers/renters. You can argue that it's not fair, but that's the way our system of government was designed.

Azusa wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 02:29:
If you mean referendum as in, some populist democratic scheme whereby city dwellers remove the right to self defense from rural dwellers because there are more of them, then no, the United States is not and never has been a democracy, it doesn't work like that.

Azusa wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 21:22:

Could it possibly be that the Constitution was written by mortal men, who are prone to error and misjudgement?

Certainly. There is a process for rectifying their errors. It's called a constitutional amendment. I'm sure you'll get right on that.

Texas Jake wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 21:42:

again, welcome to the wide world of gaming, sometimes the first week after launch is a bit shakey. especially with titles which are widely-publicized as online-only. how many mmo launches have resulted in a second free game exactly? care to name a few off hand?

This ^

Unfortunately the ragers aren't going to consider that, because the last SimCity from 10 years ago didn't require you to be online so they're somehow entitled to stuff because this one does and it took them a few days to iron out problems.

EA fixed the game, it's fun now. Time to move on.

Slick wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 20:20:
1) so a year's head's up isn't enough? who out there didn't know this game was online-only? if so then i'm sorry, but you're not a savvy consumer and do absolutely no research into the products you buy before throwing your dollars at them, can't help you there.

netnerd85 wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 16:58:
Everyone needs to buy Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 in my humble opinion

Free MP DLC is out 20th of March according to their facebook

Sniping noobs is fun!

ASeven wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 18:46:
Forbes throws the theory that Riccitello may have been pressured to quit due to the SimCity debacle.

Too far fetched for me, investors care about stock prices before botched releases, even one with the magnitude of SimCity. Riccitello pretty much threw EA's stock prices to the ground.

ASeven wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 18:28:

Quboid wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 18:24:
That's a valid opinion ASeven, and one I generally agree with despite being a sucker who did buy this game. It's also my opinion that pistachio nuts taste nicer than cashews - and that's got about to do with it. Who is loudly defending SimCity in this thread?

The usual suspects. Texas Jake, Slick, etc.