Nah, Brother None is a good guy. You could be thinking of Roshambo (Rosh) who hasn't been around in several years. He was a dumb fucker and a coward.

Like I said before, most of the people who post at NMA have always been good normal people. It's just every generation of admins seem to let a handful of scumbags get into position as forum moderators and drive the place right into the ground. Then it's inevitably rebooted with a new crowd. The Gearbox forums are way waaaaay worse and has no hope of redemption. It's part of their policy to treat people like shit.

Mad Max RW wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 17:23:
When was the last time you actually visited NMA? They largely embraced New Vegas and one of their admins, Brother None, currently works at InXile on Wasteland 2. Most of the people are pretty cool. The problem with the place now is a couple of the forum moderators/admins are confirmed bigots and huge racists from the Netherlands who unfairly target normal level headed posters while giving a free pass to the most hate filled anti-Semitic scumbags you'll find anywhere on the internet. Because of them the forum activity dropped off the planet in the last year until Brother None was forced to step in. Whining about Interplay/Bethesda/whatever is so 10 years ago.

Admittedly the last time I was there was when they whined and complained that Fallout 3 was being made. The problem with the place then was a couple of the forum moderators/admins we so change averse, they unfairly target normal level headed posters while giving a free pass to the most other hate filled anti-Bethesda luddite scumbags. Unfortunately, from memory Brother None was one of them, or at least pandered to them.

It looks like nothing much changed.

Cutter wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:56:
You however sound like a sellout. Fun with perception 101.

Yeah? Screw you too! Personally I don't see saying to myself "I'll get this when they allow offline mode", and then following through with that as selling out.

Have fun in perception 101.

Cutter wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 18:45:

Beamer wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 17:04:
In this case, while EA did something good for consumers, it's kind of an insult since they swore up and down that it was an impossibility.

See, only you would say something like that? They lied and now they're trying to salvage a financial mess for their own benefit and you view it as them doing something good for us poor ol' consumers. I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like walking around looking through eyes. Are you actually an alien?

This *is* good for consumers. I don't see how that's even disputable, never mind worthy of such amazement. You seem to think that Beamer said that EA's motivation for doing this was out of kindness, which I don't think he meant at all.

Edit: Beamer sort of said this already, move along.

Cutter wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 18:45:

Beamer wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 17:04:
In this case, while EA did something good for consumers, it's kind of an insult since they swore up and down that it was an impossibility.

See, only you would say something like that? They lied and now they're trying to salvage a financial mess for their own benefit and you view it as them doing something good for us poor ol' consumers. I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like walking around looking through eyes. Are you actually an alien?

I know what looking through your eyes is like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmu4y-oc-8

You know, you missed the next line, where I said this was confirmation that they lied.

Talisorn wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:42:
Ah ... Blues News! What happened to you? You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

Ah and I see you weren't happy either. Confused. Tons of people on the internets imo get this entitlement thing all wrong. This is an opinion about a product, what someone may like or dislike, we are critics like any other. We weren't asking for a free copy of Sim City because we are simply Americans, that would be self entitlement. Check the definition of entitlement please.

All I say to the Wall Street game makers, look at last weeks Steam Top 10. 8 out of 10 indies. That is telling.

Beamer wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 17:04:
In this case, while EA did something good for consumers, it's kind of an insult since they swore up and down that it was an impossibility.

See, only you would say something like that? They lied and now they're trying to salvage a financial mess for their own benefit and you view it as them doing something good for us poor ol' consumers. I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like walking around looking through eyes. Are you actually an alien?

Mad Max RW, really? That sounds dreadful.

Talisorn wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:42:
Ah ... Blues News! What happened to you? You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

I tried to be positive in my comment but in attempting to be measured in my positivity, I remembered all the other problems this game has. I do give EA credit for this but they're not getting much. It certainly doesn't make up for forcing the needless always-online bullshit in the first place, never mind the deep problems with the simulation which (bar the first couple of weeks' connection problems) are an even more serious problem.

I STILL can not play this game as I wanted to play, because even with offline play the game I wanted to play and believed I had bought still doesn't exist.

Acleacius wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 13:10:
What is it all the young whipper snappers says.....Fail?

I think so. And to the embarrassingly bad trolling attempt by Talisorn I think they would probably say "Fail troll is fail" or something like that, wouldn't they? Or maybe a "derp derp" or whatever?

Talisorn wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:42:
Ah ... Blues News! What happened to you? You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

When was the last time you actually visited NMA? They largely embraced New Vegas and one of their admins, Brother None, currently works at InXile on Wasteland 2. Most of the people are pretty cool. The problem with the place now is a couple of the forum moderators/admins are confirmed bigots and huge racists from the Netherlands who unfairly target normal level headed posters while giving a free pass to the most hate filled anti-Semitic scumbags you'll find anywhere on the internet. Because of them the forum activity dropped off the planet in the last year until Brother None was forced to step in. Whining about Interplay/Bethesda/whatever is so 10 years ago.

Cutter wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:56:
Funny, you say it sounds like bitching and I say it sounds like legitimate gripes. You however sound like a sellout. Fun with perception 101.

I always feel like a great deal of the time I could simply quote Cutter instead of writing my own opinion. Doing it this time.

Since EA won't be increasing the city size, perhaps they'll rebrand it "Sim Village" to achieve something closer to what they're providing?

Talisorn wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:42:
Ah ... Blues News! What happened to you? You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

In this case, while EA did something good for consumers, it's kind of an insult since they swore up and down that it was an impossibility.

Given how many people felt the whole DRM-is-necessary argument was a lie, this just seems like confirmation.

Really, I get why they wanted people online. Ignoring the sales perspective, they really wanted to push the social aspects of the game. But those aspects weren't terribly interesting or compelling. When you need to force people to use your stuff the way you want it used, it's probably not as good a design decision as you think. See: Microsoft. See: Google+

Talisorn wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:42:
Ah ... Blues News! What happened to you? You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

You are welcome to it. I hope you enjoy it. I know I wouldn't. As I said, it is a step in the right direction but there is no way this game is anywhere close to its' namesake.

Talisorn wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:42:
Ah ... Blues News! You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

Funny, you say it sounds like bitching and I say it sounds like legitimate gripes. You however sound like a sellout. Fun with perception 101.

Ah ... Blues News! What happened to you? You really have become to PC gaming what that bitter and twisted "No Mutants Allowed" people are to Fallout. Two and a half pages of whining and not one positive comment. Reality check: You all sound like a bunch of self-entitled little bitches. GROW UP!

Well all I can say is FINALLY I can get to play this game as I wanted to play. It may be late in the day, but at least I now get to play.

This comment was edited on Jan 13, 2014, 16:55.

Kosh401 wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 16:14:
It still blows my mind that this game isn't multithreaded. 100% of the simulation/calculations are done on a single thread.

Haha. I didn't know that, but I don't find it that surprising. If they get the basics of the game design wrong why should we think they would have competent people writing the code.

Creston wrote on Jan 13, 2014, 14:13:
"Sales are non-existant anymore, so we can now scrap the DRM."

Too little too late, EA. Shove it.

It's their lack of contrition that sticks in my craw: no mea culpa that maybe it was a bad idea to force it on people. Refusing to acknowledge your errors shows a lack of class, IMO.

It still blows my mind that this game isn't multithreaded. 100% of the simulation/calculations are done on a single thread. It's crazy and hard to fathome that they felt this was a good design/development direction. At least they were consistent across the board in that regard, though.

The problem with EA is that they design games according to some of their executives latest "brilliant idea" on how to make more money off of their games... not to make games that are genuinely enjoyable, and naturally succeed because of that.

SimCity was a genuinely enjoyable game, but EA designed it with the intention of making a bunch of money off of DLCs. So they effed it up.

They could have made SimCity 4 over again with better graphics and performance and it would have been a better game than SimCity 5 is.

I don't think that it is the actual people working on the game that screw so many of EA's game up, but the managers that are more concerned with them getting out by a certain time, and with their latest money making idea designed into it.