Yosemite Sam wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 18:35:
TotalHalibut has a vid up on the new Simcity if anyones still remotely interested in that game.

EDIT link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-KeHtlUf2M&list=ELoMMvp1iM75U&index=4

Moral Warnings: The game prides itself on being evil. You slaughter, poison, and kill for pleasure and revenge. Magic, occult, and sexual references abound.

Julio wrote on Mar 3, 2013, 13:06:

Dev wrote on Mar 3, 2013, 02:07:
I was tempted to do something like that too. But then I realized, it won't matter to him. He preemptively even says its a reasonable statement just in case anyone actually does search out statements.

You're right, he's not worth the effort.

Dev wrote on Mar 3, 2013, 02:07:

Julio wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 23:51:

Quboid wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 20:15:
I've heard he called PC gamers whiny entitled pirates but when I asked this person for a source, none was forthcoming.

Here's 10 seconds worth of checking on google, the first bunch of links that came up. I'm sure there's better out there, but whatever, it's not like its hard to find CliffyB calling PC gamers whiny pirates.

First One

Second One

Third One

I was tempted to do something like that too. But then I realized, it won't matter to him. He preemptively even says its a reasonable statement just in case anyone actually does search out statements.

Quboid wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 20:15:
It's hardly an unreasonable comment

Creston wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 19:53:

Quboid wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 13:58:
You're welcome to your own opinion, you're not welcome to your own reality. And no, I don't find that statement to be REMOTELY funny.

Well, maybe next time you say that you don't understand why someone is always being considered to be a certain way, yet you don't know the history of that person, you might get it.

Creston

Ray Marden wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 12:46:
It's local to your area/connection, Creston. I'm downloading ME3 right now at 8.77MB/sec.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/originspeed.jpg/

Having said that, it is not uncommon for Origin to be inconsistent. I've seen more than a few times where it lowers to 40KB/s or so for one hour or so.
Is it even a direct download or is it P2P?
Edit: Just from the time of posting, I have seen speeds from 3MB/s to 7MB/s.

Having just upgraded interwebzorz today ,
Ray

Creston wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 12:06:

Quboid wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 11:56:
That's not what he's saying, but maybe if you swear a bit more it will come true.

Yes, Quboid. If 100 people read the article, and 95 of them say "Who is he to tell people to shut up?" and 5 of them say "That's not what he's saying," then obviously YOU must be correct.

And it's not as if it's cliffyb, and he has a history of telling PC gamers to shut up because they aren't getting demos, or Epic's latest games. No. He's never done that.

Good use of the "Put my fingers in my ears and yell LA LA LA really loudly" technique. Keep right on trucking there.

Creston

Creston wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 11:47:
Translated: "Oh God, EA, please give me a job! please!!!"

Anyway, yes, captain obvious, this is obviously being done because EA KNOWS that it will work and will lead to more money. D-fucking-uh. Does that somehow mean that people aren't allowed to say that it's fucking bullshit?

Oh wait, it's cliffyb. "People who don't like something should shut the fuck up," has been this cuntsack's M.O. for quite some time now.

Creston

HorrorScope wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 11:13:
If EA is so right about micro-transactions, why can't the company make a profit? To some, their consistent losses would state they are wrong all the time about something, reminded every quarter of that to.

Cpmartins wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 10:50:
Here it is:
https://twitter.com/moskow23/status/296355832998801408

HorrorScope wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 00:12:
Russian Law #7: Everyone must have a camera in their center front windshield.

Kosh401 wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 08:40:
100% of the game's simulation is done on a single CPU thread. Some audio and rendering is offloaded to a second core/thread, but otherwise it's all done on one.

That is the reason there is such a small city limit to work within. I wouldn't expect to see this increased any time soon, as they essentially would have to re-write large parts of their game engine (the simulators) to support multithreading.

Why it wasn't built this way to begin with is beyond me. It's the perfect type of game for multithreading.

Julio wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 05:29:
I agree about don't buy if you don't like microtransactions, but taking away our free speech? No thanks - Cliff can move to China if he wants to not have the right to give his opinion.