SimCity
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What is cheetah speed exactly? Does it mean there is no fast forwarding at all?
It makes no sense if you want to keep your consumers happy. It makes perfect sense if that's their DRM and if they think having a strong DRM means they'll sell more copies. I hope the reviews and Amazon taking it off their site really are bad enough to make a dent in sales. The Amazon thing has got to hurt only a couple days after release...
Cause it's SimCity and because other games of the genre to comes since SC4 was somewhat disappointing.
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Yeah, there's been about 10 professional reviews on metacritic since right as the game came out. It's a weird situation. Online only games have typically been MMOs and it makes sense to put off giving your score for weeks because of the amount of content. That naturally gives some buffer for shit releases. But simcity is an online game whose content can be enjoyed in a matter of hours. It doesn't make sense give a favorable review for a game when you literally can't play it, nor does it make sense to give a bad review to what will likely be a >9/10 game in a couple weeks, and it doesn't make sense to take a few weeks to review it.
All in all I'd say it's a tough journalistic problem with no good answers. One thing is for sure, those shitty review sites that have their reviews out now have egg on their face and clicks for their ads.
What won't change is the desperately low score for this game from users. Spore and Diablo3 are both great games that had rough launches and are currently sitting at 2 stars on amazon still.
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....GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
(no really, that is the only reason I bought it. I've been pining for a good city building sim for a long long time)
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Tuco
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Good news: Simcity is a great buy flawed city building sim. We'll see if Maxis/EA will remove some of those flaws.
The server shit is just a matter of time and by next week it'll probably be fine. The real question is whether the traffic and other more challenging problems will be resolved.
The server shit is just a matter of time and by next week it'll probably be fine. The real question is whether the traffic and other more challenging problems will be resolved.
That sounds like a big fucking flaw to me. Wasn't road building and zoning one of the biggest issue with SC4 already? It's been a while but I seem to remember it drove me fucking insane. I don't think I can imagine anything being 10x worse than that.
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http://furiousfanboys.com/2013/03/ea...uest-a-refund/
Want a refund? Well you just might get banned for trying.
Want a refund? Well you just might get banned for trying.
Really does not have anything to do with SimCity, like you said but
Is the kind of thing that I think warrants bitching about Origin in any thread even remotely related to EA.
Araxen
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I liked Tropico a lot. It's pretty close to being Sim City without being it. If that makes any sense.
It's pretty telling when Amazon pulls the game. They have really good CS and I can't blame them that they don't want to be associated with this disaster of a launch. I think this launch has officially surpassed Diablo 3's crappy launch. I think this is 10x worse actually. You really risk having hours of work poof right now if their shitty servers don't sync up or go down for whatever. I'm lucky that I've only lost one city so far due to this bullshit.
It's going to be even worse starting tomorrow because the weekend will see even more of an increase of a load especially Sunday.
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swayze22
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The fact that this was a "myth" that needed to be "busted" is quite telling on its own.
I saw some comment somewhere saying everyone who purchased the game should request a charge-back from their bank so all the banks will be pissed at EA. I like that idea.
You must have skipped the Diablo 3 launch! Exact same scenario played out there.
I completely agree with you about how they handle the PR on these incidents and needing to be more forthcoming. I didn't buy this game but it always pisses me off more when they try to minimize things (like "certain users are experiencing this very specific issue" when everyone knows pretty much everyone is experiencing much more serious issues).
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people are rightly so jumping down EAs throat about all of this, but after the rumor that not reporting bugs during the beta would get your origin account banned happened and everyone believed it right out of the gate, I am not surprised at all that this gained traction.
Can't wait for the playing SimCity gave me AIDS rumors start