deqer wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 17:56:
SimCity 4 Deluxe?

Don't buy it. Pirate it!

I'm sure all of EA's bullshit has costed you $60 part of your life in some way, shape or form. Do you want a refund for that $60 of bullshit/stress/frustration/deceivingness ? Well, you can get a refund by pirating it!

Don't worry. You aren't the bad guy for pirating it. EA is. EA caused you to pirate it.

You didn't ask for all the bullshit EA has been doing lately, including forcing you on their Origin system.

deqer wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 16:45:

Beamer wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 16:40:
Can't do that now, eh?

"<EA>: Of course not. That would significantly reduce the lifetime of the game. You must start a new city and experience it, like in the real world. There is no travelling back in time. If we allowed you to do that, then you'd have your 'fill' early on."

Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 15:29:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 15:19:
What bothers me about Creston's short list here is it's not even accurate or legitimate.

Feel free to make a legitimate accurate complete long list.

Baenwort wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 15:11:

Creston wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:53:

Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:39:
This is not nearly the first time EA has decimated a studio they've bought out. Is origin around anymore? Bullfrog? Or any of the others?

Let's see if we can make a full list of studios that have they outright killed, and studios that are currently in the slow process of dying from the EA-touch.

Outright killed:

- Origin
- Westwood
- Bullfrog
- Mythic
- Lionhead (not sure if this one should be in the next category or not.)
- Pandemic

Slowly dying:

- Maxis
- Starbreeze
- Lionhead (just for completeness' sake. I have no idea if they're actually still around.)
- Bioware. (I'm on the fence on this one. DA2 was absolutely EA-ified, but ME3 was a very good game that just suffered from one dipshit writer who is way too much in love with himself. DA3 and ME4 will be the final nail in the coffin, or a slight reprieve from their inevitable death.)
- Popcap.

Any others? I'm sure I'm missing at least half a dozen other studios that EA killed.

Creston

The one I'll always be pissed about is Kesmai.

Creators of: Multiplayer Battletech(Solaris, 3025, etc); AirWarrior(Amiga through 4); Islands/Legends of Kesmai; Stellar Emperor; and more.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990902072142/www.kesmaistudios.com/company/

Cabezone wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 14:44:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 14:33:

Shineyguy wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 14:03:

Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:58:

Creston wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:53:
Any others? I'm sure I'm missing at least half a dozen other studios that EA killed.

Creston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Electronic_Arts

EA has a stake in Novalogic? NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Like Novalogic was ever relevant or even a decent developer.

Voxels motherfucker....voxels

Shineyguy wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 14:03:

Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:58:

Creston wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:53:
Any others? I'm sure I'm missing at least half a dozen other studios that EA killed.

Creston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Electronic_Arts

EA has a stake in Novalogic? NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Cutter wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 17:02:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 15:12:
Yep democrats are so concerned with citizen's rights, they keep making efforts to remove said rights and make people more reliant on them, The Government. Welfare for votes, "free" medical on the backs of everyone who works for a living. Keep living the lie that either party gives a fuck about you. The Rand filibuster was a perfect example of it. Can the President use drone strikes on US citizens on US soil, easy answer, according to the Constitution? No. Still took a 13 hour filibuster + weeks of asking the Dictator in Chief for an answer.

Between the lesser of two evils they're the definite lesser. You're wrong on just about everything else, as usual though, so no great revelations there. However, yes, people do need to look for - and find - alternatives to the two party stranglehold of the elites. Jesse Ventura is a good way to go for a start.

Creston wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:53:

Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:39:
This is not nearly the first time EA has decimated a studio they've bought out. Is origin around anymore? Bullfrog? Or any of the others?

Let's see if we can make a full list of studios that have they outright killed, and studios that are currently in the slow process of dying from the EA-touch.

Outright killed:

- Origin
- Westwood
- Bullfrog
- Mythic
- Lionhead (not sure if this one should be in the next category or not.)

Slowly dying:

- Maxis
- Starbreeze
- Lionhead (just for completeness' sake. I have no idea if they're actually still around.)
- Bioware. (I'm on the fence on this one. DA2 was absolutely EA-ified, but ME3 was a very good game that just suffered from one dipshit writer who is way too much in love with himself. DA3 and ME4 will be the final nail in the coffin, or a slight reprieve from their inevitable death.)

Any others? I'm sure I'm missing at least half a dozen other studios that EA killed.

Creston

Optional nickname wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 11:21:
The bar has been set, for our age of dumbed down AAA sequel iterations, nothing new here, moving right along,

I am however, still holding my breath, for the upcoming new online Command & Conquer, I think that will be a worthy multiplayer sequel to what was Gen Zero Hour, and frankly I couldn't care less about Single Player missions in that game, we know how EA would handle that one!

we need to stop fuming at EA, our voices are falling on deaf ears, I know very well how large corporate companies are run, with lawyers at the top that will stop at NOTHING to prevent a healthy cashflow to their owners. They will arrest their own family members, if it means preventing internal corruption to the company. I've seen all kinds of things, with these bean counters are at the top of the chain in command.

Simcity, and Diablo are dead, we need to get off our collective asses, and go program our own worthy software, get to kickstarter, and make games for gamers, once again, or rekindle the magic that we once had since the glory days of Commodore, or lets give new aspiring young players, that same feeling we once had, as EA and Activision are not going to be doing this for us anymore, not this generation.

MAKE our OWN games, STOP wasting our precious time playing THEIRS.

not even remotely interested in playing a free Simcity 2013 offline, it is broken beyond belief, and will see if they manage free overhaul to that game, in 2 months time.

/ as a simoleon: leaves work, gets in car, and drives to first residential home, and barges in, wakes up old granny in bed, and I roll over to sleep.

Cutter wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 14:03:
Hope Yelp and these other racketeers do get the shit sued out of them and they're shut down.

The amount of idiotic criminals never ceases to boggle the mind.

"You go to a Walmart with a printer to return and no receipt, with your counterfeit bills still lodged in it, and you want to dicker with the clerks to get half price back, when you have warrants out for you," Smokowicz said. "There are a few lessons here about not drawing attention to yourself."

Lulz. What a tool.

OpenBand apparently convinced a lot of communities to sign exclusive franchise agreements that ran for between 25 to 75 years. While users in these developments could sign up for other TV or broadband services, they still had to pay the $150 monthly association fee to OpenBand.

Are you effing kidding me? Cereal? Who would move into one of these places?

It isn't just activists that are concerned, either. In 2009, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said the government's use of "Section 215 is unfortunately cloaked in secrecy. Some day that cloak will be lifted, and future generations will ask whether our actions today meet the test of a democratic society." In 2011, two US Senators, Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO), publicly voiced their concerns, too, suggesting the government had a pretty wild interpretation of what it was allowed to do under the PATRIOT Act. "When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry,” Wyden told The New York Times.

Nice to see as always at least the Democrats are concerned with citizens rights. However they're wrong. The American public will, by and large, be as apathetic as always otherwise things like the PATRIOT Act would never occur in the first place.

Darks wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 11:28:
Blizzard has lost its creativity; they are now a company that is all about long development cycles and pretty CGI. Short on story and overpriced.

When was the last time blizzard came up with a new game? A completely different IP that has nothing to do with their Three Prime Evils? That’s right, nothing!

The keep force feeding the masses with updated games that are nothing more than an over lay of new graphics over an old concept.

wtf_man wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 09:09:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 08:56:
That's not hurt feelings, it's disgust at how whiny half the people here are.

Let me put it this way...

I didn't buy Sim City, but I am outraged because I wanted to buy a new Sim City.

I didn't buy several UBI games when they had always online DRM, and was outraged, because I wanted to buy Driver San Francisco, and a couple of others. (Now I can, since they reveresed it with just one time activation with UPlay)

I didn't buy Diablo III, and actually had no interest, but I'm still outraged about the always online DRM and Pay to Win Auction House. Why? Because it sets precedence... which is why EA tried this crap with Sim City.

And yes, I'm really irritated with everyone that bought these games and supported always-online-DRM. They are the reason these publishers keep trying this shit.

Kajetan wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 08:43:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 08:19:
...

And EVERYTIME you chip in to blabber about your hurt feelings.

Creston wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 22:37:
In other words: EA is full of shit, as usual. This is about DRM and about preventing mods so they can DLC it out the ass. This comes in addition to reports from EA's forum that the engine is just plain broken and just goes into full "what the fuck ever" mode once you reach a certain number of people. I hope the whole fucking thing burns around them and their shit-ass company.

Bye Maxis. You can join the corpses of Origin, Westwood, Bullfrog and all the other once great developers who were fucking murdered by EA. Once upon it time, it was nice playing your games. Not anymore.

Creston

edaciousx wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 18:08:
You guys are pretty amazing. QQing that you get owned within 10 minutes of the game... I was ranked high in SC2 and if the game is not good at high level of play then it's even worse at lower level of play. Look at company of heroes 1, the allied forces get creamed all the time when going up against the germans. If you want to play an unbalanced game play COH. Awesome awesome game but insanely unbalanced. At high levels of play the balancing becomes an even greater issue, that's why blizzard focuses so much on the high level players.

Darks wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 16:33:

AngelicPenguin wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 15:15:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 15:09:

AngelicPenguin wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 15:05:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 14:31:

Fati wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 14:24:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 13:20:
There's a difference between sending a scout or 2, and sending 15 starter troops all aimed directly at your resource gatherers. Sure sometimes I micro quick enough to counter it, but every game is just about the same unless playing with friends. It's the mentality of SC players apparently that every game needs to hurry up and end. At least that's been my experience with SC2.

I don't think RTS is for you. You need to learn how to defend early pressure. Once you realize that the players who pressure early put themselves at a significant economic disadvantage, you'll see that all you need to do is successfully defend, counter-attack and it's gg.

Right, but what if I want to enjoy the game I paid for? What if I'd like to go up the tech tree and not have the game end in 10 minutes? I can do this just fine in every other RTS that is MP. Blizzard titles? Hell you're lucky if you don't have shit in your base 2 and a half minutes in.

I always thought the same thing about the NBA. I want my team to play methodical defense and push the shot clock to the limit, so I think they should ban fast breaks and teams that like to run.

Who said anything about banning playstyles? holy strawman batman.

How can I strawman talking about myself? Nothing fast should happen in the NBA darn it!

edit: I'm just messing with you, but it does sound like competitive RTS isn't really your thing. Most RTS games have some sort of early game rush - in fact I can't think of a single one that didn't.

This is the main problem I have with this game. Blizzard purposely designed this game so matches only last 20 mins. They purposely give you limited resources and force you to expand. They also made defense practically useless. Most of the time when being rushed, your defense fall faster than units. Most defenses felt like they were made of paper. They get ripped through so fast.

This is what turned me off about SC and why I will never go back to it.

Blizzards track record recently is 0 - 2