Beamer wrote on Apr 25, 2013, 09:22:
I'd call it a huge surprise. The only innovative and good projects were coming from Partners, Partners was often lauded as extremely successful and well liked by the third parties, etc.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 09:17:
I don't have much sympathy for anyone silly enough to buy this game. I bought SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, and SimCity 4 but I never came close to buying this. It was pretty clear it was a loser prior to release.

Yakubs wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 09:59:
When everyone is blasting EA for lying, let's not let Maxis off the hook here. They deserve just as much indignation for this mess of a game release and it pains me to see them potentially getting away from this without much damage to their reputation.

Flak wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 09:50:
Call me a diabolical bastard but every day since the release of Sim City I go on to EA Chat support to tell them I didn't buy the game.

Kajetan wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 10:43:

yonder wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 10:40:
I was interested until I saw those two letters "EA"...

Read further. He tries to get the rights to Alice from EA

If he succeeds, why not? Nowadays not being released by EA is a great plus for a game.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 22:21:

NKD wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 20:34:
Like I said in the other thread, I can't think of excuses for why putting more servers online seems to be a huge struggle for them. It doesn't take 3-6 days, even if you have to order new servers from IBM or Dell or whoever the fuck EA uses.

And like I said on the previous thread, I find it hard to imagine that they'd need to buy any new hardware. There should be plenty of unused SWTOR servers hanging around.

Hudson187 wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 22:18:
I had ordered my retail copy from Amazon -- came in on Tuesday. I got around to installing it last night and tried to play it tonight. I first sat in "queue" for 45 minutes... yes... 45 minutes. Then, I got into the title screen where the game "tried" to load the tutorial, but never loaded the map as I kept losing connection to the server. I have just requested a RMA from Amazon so I can send them back this POS. Yes, the key is connected to my account, but I can assure you I'm also uninstalling Origin since BF3 has turned into a cheatfest anyway. I'm truly disappointed in Maxis; I will NEVER give either Maxis or EA my $$ again. I'm still extremely bothered by the fact that a SP game REQUIRES a constant internet connection -- that requirement alone should have been enough to warn me, but I put faith in Maxis and the SimCity franchise. At this point I'd rather play SimCity on SNES.

Verno wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 09:48:
I wish the critics were taking less EA ad money and the users would ignore the DRM for 20 seconds and comment on the actual game quality. It's difficult for the average user to find a reasonable in between these days.

I will likely skip it though, I don't care for the social aspects and I'm not sure its worth the money at launch to get a new but ultimately lesser version of older games I own. I play these games as singleplayer so the online DRM stuff is just a potential source of frustration to boot.

Shineyguy wrote on Mar 3, 2013, 00:31:
Finally finished the game a few weeks ago.

And I was massively disappointed in the ending. Won't be paying Bioware any money to continue this game.

eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 2, 2013, 08:06:

Quboid wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 21:49:

eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 20:02:
I have played the (2nd) 1hr beta and if you see the depth of the simulation with its many thousands of independent smart actors you will understand why it's limited to the size it is. Simulation depth is absolutely stunning, and the data views are the BEST visualization of data on a city map ever conceived. It looks absolutely stunning. The game itself looks ok, even pretty at times

Will see on the 8th whether it has the magic or not.

I played it too, quite pleased with what I saw and I don't think my rig could handle larger cities. However, as jacobvandy says, why not make it future-proof? I suppose it won't matter, they'll switch off the server before I upgrade... *sobs*

If anything BF3 shows that EA can be very committed to a game.... I have no doubts Sim City will see many updates, DLC and content that it makes SIMS3 look like a barren wasteland

Rigs wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 21:51:
I don't understand why (besides being mindful of ancient console limitations, mind you) developers don't always go the Crysis route when designing games and make them to be as detailed and in-depth as a current system (meaning current, not least-common-denominator) can possibly handle and then make options to tone it down to make it playable on current machines, there-by 'future-proofing' titles?! I've NEVER understood that. Though, to be honest, this wasn't as much of a problem before '3D Accelerators' came about. Back in the 386/486 days of old, most games did push the systems to their respective limits and if you had something within' range but not exactly 'cutting-edge', it could usually be dialed back some. (In particular I'm picturing Aces of the Pacific, since it was 'playable' on a low-end 386 at the time, but to get the best possible experience, you needed a hefty 486SX or DX-class, 25-40mhz, but the game was ALL there either way. You weren't missing out on features because you couldn't handle the graphics)...


=-Rigs-=

Flatline wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 19:35:
So we're not entitled to voice our opinions because that's whiny minority bullshit, but you are?

Pot- Kettle. I think you have some things in common.

Jerykk wrote on Feb 24, 2013, 05:17:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Feb 23, 2013, 06:53:

Julio wrote on Feb 22, 2013, 19:30:
Ubi should drop the PC as a platform

Fuck you. If you don't like Ubisoft games then don't buy them but leave the rest of us that do out of it. Ubisoft has backed away from limited-activations and always-on requirements because of pressure from PC gamers and FC3's UPlay implementation, while unnecessary, was pretty innocuous. If anything PC gamers should support Ubisoft for responding to the community. Currently I refuse to buy EA games due to its anti-consumer practices - like I used to do with Ubisoft - but if EA were to reform its ways then I'd change my position.

Of which anti-consumer practices do you speak? Not selling their newer games on Steam and requiring Origin is pretty lame but at least Origin is better than Uplay. Uplay is utterly worthless.

Despite Uplay's crappiness, I'd prefer that Ubisoft continue to support the PC and put more effort into doing so. Timely, quality ports is a good start.