SpectralMeat wrote on Sep 13, 2012, 14:06:
I did not watch the video yet I am still at work but what does Geoff Keighley doing there? Is he a game developer now or something?

Stanly Manly wrote on Sep 12, 2012, 10:53:
I get the feeling everyone is too busy with Diablo 3 to look at this game, but it looks quite good to me, and I have no interest in D3.

deqer wrote on Aug 31, 2012, 15:26:
To all the D3 people,

Why would you sink your time into something you don't own, when you could rather sink your time into something you do own such as TL2; and own it forever, and mod it, and do anything you want with it for as long as you want.

ASeven wrote on Aug 27, 2012, 07:29:

FalconerHG wrote on Aug 27, 2012, 05:32:
Hi ASeven,

I'm the author of the SC article and got to play it at Gamescom. I completely understand your concerns, but from what I've seen, the game is quite complete without DLC and the online part is actually quite a lot of fun. You can team up online with friends to build cities that complement each other, using a different focus for each city so you can specialize in what you want and still benefit from the specialization of your friend(s). It's really well done.

Of course EA - will - milk the DLC something fierce, but at this point, I think you can largely ignore it.

Problem is, I don't want to team up with friends, why would I? SimCity has always been an offline single player experience, why should I be forced to go online to play the game in a way I have not asked nor do not want?

Unless SC5 has a solid offline mode or rather, a solid single player mode without forcing us to go online I will not be touching this.

RailWizard wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 15:43:
It's a ThermalTake MEKA and guess what key it doesn't have on it...

Verno wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 15:04:

gilly775 wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 14:57:
So don't use it. I go into the Start Screen to search, not to click on pretty looking tiles. While it does cater to tablets, it still is a functional OS that has allowed me to open items faster than searching for the same things in the Start Menu in 7.

You have to use it, that's the point and what is rubbing many people the wrong way. There are many ways to trigger Metro, you get bounced into it for everything from search to plugging in a second monitor to shutting down the machine. Microsoft went out of its way to prevent most forms of booting straight to the desktop. They even ripped out legacy Start code in an effort to prevent people avoiding its use then they tied it into many other areas of functionality.

I can understand people liking Metro but what I don't get is people who seem to think that others are whining because they don't like being bounced between two jarringly different interfaces. Having a tablet mode would not have been a difficult thing, Windows 7 already laid the ground work.

nin wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 13:47:

The problem is that people can't stand change.

You're right. So why does the company reinvent the wheel? So you can buy it again, every few years...

Verno wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 14:46:
You are ignoring the fact that a Metro style shell for tablets is literally at odds by design with a desktop interface.

deqer wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 14:46:

Verno wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 14:33:

I'm not surprised with your response, because you're another victim as well just like this guy. You've spoken already about how you're revisiting/playing after these updates. So, I'm not surprised. And yes, by continuing to play, he is supporting the company.

Your inappropriate and misapplied use of the word victim aside, if he is having a good time and enjoying himself then there is no problem. It's his money, it's already spent which invalidates your entire argument and quite frankly it's none of your business. You aren't some special snowflake who gets to tell people what to play and how to spend their money. People like different things, grow up.

If you were in any way remotely objective or reasonable, you'd understand that Blizzard deserves criticism for their mistakes but they also deserve praise when they get something right.

Well, that's why I said he's pushing himself to continue playing it. He's telling himself to enjoy it because he spent $60 on it.

Blah, whatever.

Have fun being owned by blizzard and playing your single-player game online only, and only when Blizzard says so. Forever.

deqer wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 14:05:

gilly775 wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 13:37:

Julio wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 13:34:
Here's an omission they can add....the game is still missing fun.

Sucks to be you. With the added changes, it's better than it was before. Not perfect, but it's moving in the right direction.

Why you supporting the game? You feel you owe to yourself to push on and keep playing because you spent $60?

Just eat the $60 and move on, dude.

Don't support these companies and their development practice of rushing products and patching later.

Just stop playing.

Julio wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 13:34:
Here's an omission they can add....the game is still missing fun.

Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 16, 2012, 10:41:
I'm tempted to say, "Hire some competent IT people and get your data backed up." However, I'm guessing there is more to this story than we are hearing so far...