Sim City
 

Is anyone else planning on throwing their personal lives away beginning March 5? :excited:

Must.....resist!!!!!

Cant wait! I actually forgot about it until this thread. The Commercials look pretty awesome!.

Check out youtube, they have some great videos of the game play and new features.
Looks like they are really getting into the "online" era with the ability to link cities with others I believe and your city is also not just by itself. You have to bring in other people.

I pre-ordered so I'm anxiously waiting. It's good timing too since my future sister in law will be visiting next week. I'll be hiding in the basement building cities.

I just hope it will play on my laptop, I have pretty much got out of the computer world and been just using my xbox to game. Might have to pull out the old PC and see if I cant get it up and running.

Now im going to be watching SimCity videos at work today, thanks :shakes head:

haha

If anyone was thinking about this... SAVE YOUR MONEY.

No good? Glitchy? It looks good though. I guess its only torrent worthy? lol

EA ruined it with their DRM crap. You have to be connected to the server even for single player... trouble is the servers are always down or are buggy as hell.

IF you can actually play... it's a major let down. The game engine is cool but the cities themselves are FAR too small. You run out of space so easily... they needed to be at least 5x the size if not 10.

Of course EA will probably fix that with paid DLC. :shakes head:

Yeah, I only got to play about 1 hour. It was alright, but like Steve said, you run out of room way to quickly. Supposedly they are offering refunds. I saw an article about it earlier, but don't feel like looking for it again :icon17:

I'll have to look into that.

The killer for me is the city size. Assuming they solve all the server problems the game likely would be good IF they increased the city size 5 or 10 times over.

I agree. Not having to run power lines and water lines are so much better :icon17:

I'm tempted to try Cities XL

Never even heard of that one, although watching youtube vid's the graphics seem pretty good. Not sure about the rest however.

Its cheap enough on Steam that I wouldn't care much if I didn't end up liking it. $79.99 for Sim City on the other hand is really, really annoying. F*ck EA!

That still around...? I remember my kids playing that about 7 or 8 years ago...:ugh2:

It was, but then EA killed it.

Simcity 2000 FTW! haha I remember making Cities and then flying through them in SimCopter. Also played alot of SimFarm and SimAnt. haha

Let's never forget this post.

Been reading up on this SimCity disaster this morning, it sucks because I was really hoping for it to be awesome.

http://wac.7725.edgecastcdn.net/8077...03/21ca7Lt.jpg

Unfortunately EA has suspended refunds (too many requests) so I'm stuck with it.

How did you pay for it? I read alot of people are just disputing the purchase on their credit cards.

Ordered via Origin. I could do that, but it earns you a lifetime Origin ban. And I like to play BF3 now and again.

Wait...they are banning people if they do a charge back?
Oh man that is going to piss people off even more!

yes

I have a feeling there might be a lawsuit in the works with how bad EA is handling this.

Go EA :facepalm: what a bunch of money-stealing wipes.

My hard-earned money went towards Tomb Raider instead, and so far it's been a blast :p

Ill just wait for someone to create a crack to allow offline play. That really sucks you cant get your $$ back.

So is there no offline way to play?
So say I lose internet connection or I am offshore I cannot play?

Then as of right now your SOL.

Isn't Blizzard like that too with Starcraft II? You must log into Battle.net to play even single player? Why isn't that a big deal?

You can play offline, I think it is like Steam though.
Must open the game before going offline, make sure it is up to date, tagged to your steam account and then tell it to play in offline mode.

Yup. Your games are saved to the cloud and to a specific server, too. So if that server is busy... tough luck.

:shakes head: that kills it for me

Take a look at this...

Modder proves SimCity can run offline indefinitely | Games | Geek.com

Electronic Arts Chief Resigns

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/te...k-up.html?_r=0

Been a big Sim City fan from it's inception. As great as it is, it was also frustrating because you never had enough of a high end PC to run it. I finally gave up on PC games always having to update them to run graphic intense games like Sim City. I now play console games but always wished they could make Sim City available for Xbox 360 and PS3. Even if they had to dumb it down a bit, it still would be great. I read and have seen some trailers of the new Sim City and it looks awesome. Unfortunately the last I heard was that they are refunding people's money to those who paid early for the release date as it has tons of issues. Seems these issues have plaqued this franchise forever. This post however is making want to play Sim City 4 though. Believe it or not, Sim City was first released in 1989.....yikes!