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.

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 14:22:

Cutter wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:49:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:06:

Creston wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 10:44:
What is this logic you're spewing, Seattle Times. The gun lobby and its bought-and-paid-for assholes Representatives have no time for this kind of prattle!

Creston

Must suck to hate the constitution and to be afraid of tools that do nothing on their own unless a person is using them.

Not as much as it sucks to be a paranoid tin-foil hat wearing bigot and racist though.

Oh Cutter and your strawmen adhom bullshit. At least sweetheart try and be original in the future. I know I know, if you believe in fiscal conservatism and the US constitution, you're clearly racist, a bigot, and insensitive to the awesome benefits of "progress' and cultural Marxism that the left is so fond of. blah blah blah Same ol liberal rhetoric.

Guns don't kill people by themselves, someone has to pull the trigger to shoot. That's fact, you can blame video games, the NRA, whatever, at the end of the day the person using the gun decides to pull the trigger, therefore said person is responsible. There's that big R word that folks like you hate Cutter, Responsibility.

Minuit wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 17:23:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 16:52:
The real question is, how large of a golden parachute is he going to get? I would assume it'll be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Not only that, he gets his choice of Battlefield 3, Bejeweled 3, Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Plants vs. Zombies or SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition.

Texas Jake wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 17:30:
If you haven't played it, you really don't have a valid gripe. Quit your nerd raging and go play something else.

Darks wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 16:55:
This is a Ruse; EA thinks that if they get this guy to step down, people will lay the blame solely on this guy for all of EAS short coming in the past few years. This nothing but a move to try and get people to have that happy feel good feeling. Sorry EA your Jedi Mind tricks don’t work on me.

ASeven wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 16:24:

Kosumo wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 15:49:
So just to make it clear, you don't understand the saying of "Don't look a gift horse in it's mouth" then? hint, - It's got nothing to do with defending anyone. But don't let that stop you form calling people shills and fanboys.

By the way, if someone who has played the game, enjoyed what they played (people enjoy diffent thing you know) that does not make them a shill, a fanboy or a liar.

"To see anyone defending EA and Maxis for the state of SimCity, even were it in perfect working order on launch, depresses me to my core. This self-flagellation-as-skincare notion, where gamers loudly and proudly defend the destruction of their own rights as consumers, is an Orwellian perversity. That it might be considered in any way controversial to call them out on their crap, to point out that no, always-on DRM is not an advantage to anyone, is bewildering. It’s a sign of just how far the gaming world has fallen into the rabbit hole of the publisher’s burrowing."

It's the only reply to anyone defending this game.

Verno wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 15:13:

FalconerHG wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 15:00:
In some ways, it is not as deep as the older games, in others, it is way deeper. City specializations add a lot to the original gameplay, as do building great works and the ability to work together building up a region. To me, these contribute more to the depth than is being taken away elsewhere.

I'd change the word ability to necessity and I don't agree it really adds a lot to the gameplay, certainly nowhere near enough to justify other design choices such as city size limitations. I could get behind many of their decisions if they had managed to deliver the core game competently but every city we made has experienced a variety of problems and the game does a very poor job of delineating how the player arrives at that point. Your ability to problem solve is constantly hampered by poor AI and city size. Maybe the ability to save/load which would promote more experimentation would alleviate this but they seemed to have ignored that too.

Oh well, to each his own I guess.

Verno wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:17:

Quboid wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:10:
Verno, it's mainstream because it sells millions of copies? You seem to contradict yourself. I'd say it's very much mainstream; my mother has heard of it and I'd guess she'd struggle to name six games. That's brand recognition that Call of Duty doesn't even have.

I was disputing what he said about how people here don't get it because we're core gamers and SimCity isn't aimed at them. It's managed to sell well AND be a deep, engrossing simulation title for a long time already, the neutered experience and smaller scope weren't necessary. The idea that EA had to choose what kind of game to make and it could only appeal to one crowd or the other is flawed was my point.

The Half Elf wrote on Mar 17, 2013, 20:41:
If anyone else has a spare key please let me know.

CptRanger on Steam.

Thx

Cutter wrote on Mar 17, 2013, 16:11:
Doh, missed the Anno sale, oh well I've waited this long.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 16, 2013, 10:42:

"In many ways, we built an MMO.

huh?