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Sim City is now down, the maintenance message is amazing
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slightconfuse
Banned
And this is why I didn't buy the game akin with the small city size among voter things . Sim city is. Shell of its former self
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Is that the guy who was posting like he was drunk on gaf last week?
Who plays a game at launch anyway??? The game is down, so the only people who try to play the game now are sadists who have nothing better to do than complain about the hard work of the poor people at Maxis. MMOs have downtime all the time (WoW at least once a week and that launched in 2004!!!) and with the powerful social features in SimCity, it holds up to the best of MMOs IMO!!!
Mac the KNife
Member
Bravo.
Interrobang
Member
Cliffy B slipped into Clint Eastwood-esque senility as soon as he retired. His blog posts and arguments about the game industry as of late have been absolutely offensive. He should stick to making games and staying quiet.
Doesnt matter, according to the only site that matters Polygon's score will always be a 9.5. Hell, they could put it in the boxart and it still would be true. This is the future of gaming PR.
Get 3000 and 4 too while you're at it
Darkmakaimura
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0WdJx-Wkw
Seriously though, there's a lot of fans. I agree the practice is shitty but let's not victim blame.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
My Indian copy doesnt unlock until tomorrow. I only paid $27 for it but I am thinking of cancelling it.
This.
People supporting the always online stuff deserve exactly what they are getting now.
I got the game for $30 off Amazon. If I had to pay full price I would probably be requesting a refund by now.
Metalmurphy
Member
Nope, it just went up for preload and now it says release at 00:00 my local time, which is in less than 3 hours.
So well, technically that would be tomorrow
Meh, still nothing on mine :/
Sad but true.
Sucks for Maxis, I'd imagine a good majority of the devs are going out of their minds and cursing Origin.
Interrobang
Member
Shouldn't be hating on gamers who want to play a game they've been waiting for as soon as it's available. Let's stick to hating an always-online future and microtransactions.
fargofallout
Member
I really feel for anyone that actually picked this up. This is absurd. It's as though there isn't someone at EA saying "hey, people already sort of hate us, we should probably avoid doing things to give them more reasons to hate us." If they pay me enough money, I will be that guy. I would have been willing to say to them "making a traditionally single player game into a multiplayer game that requires an online connection is not a good idea. But if you don't care about how your customers feel about that, at least make sure you have the server capacity."
The_Darkest_Red
Member
At this point all of this has entered "so sad it's funny" territory for me. I saw this and just started laughing.
Sorry to all those who are affected, though.
Sorry to all those who are affected, though.
Feel that burn EA. Amazing.
They don't deserve ANY blame though? Many bought the game knowing full well there was a risk that this would happen because of the online only DRM.
On a side note I could see this happening from a mile away. EA servers are the king of garbage and always fail on launch for one of their big games.
I don't think the issue is on Origin's end. It's all Maxis. BF3 launch was fine when it released, and I'm pretty sure demand was much higher for that game.
Maxis is just an incompetent studio.
Sucks but hyperbolic statements about never buying always online games are silly. The tech will get better, better companies will figure it out etc. Curious though when this issue gets fixed will those of you with the "Guess I'll be skipping this" attitude buy it? I'm waiting til the issues are ironed out, but I'll probably still get it. I don't have any problem philosophically with always online. Just the realities of some of the current implementations.
and she was ASKING for it when she got raped, right?
Lol I was considering making a new thread advocating SimCity 2000...
Can EA patch this game so it can be played offline? Maybe woth a big chunk of code
I Know they won't , but maybe we can send them a message, like we wont buy it until they do something for those of us that havent refuse to until they either with a patch or they want to rework the whole game
The ones that have should stop playing it until they realise noones logging onto it and they get the message
I Know they won't , but maybe we can send them a message, like we wont buy it until they do something for those of us that havent refuse to until they either with a patch or they want to rework the whole game
The ones that have should stop playing it until they realise noones logging onto it and they get the message
Sir_Crocodile
Member
so be it
graywolf323
Gold Member
genius marketing move by GOG
More like ... "she walked down that dark alley for the 20th time and got raped every single time".
Keep walking down that alley.
Xbudz
Member
It looks to me like CliffyB just telling us to STFU.
Gamers need to remain passionate and ignore CliffyB.
GoddyofAus
Banned
"What? What's that? 60 bucks? Nope, you still aren't allowed to play, but we'll keep your money! We'll use it to make awesome DLC for you to buy".
We'll use it to make awesome DLC for you to buy".iirc they have programmed the game like Diablo 3 whereby some of the processing for everyones games are done on the server and then fed back to the client which is why you can't play offline (well, one of the many reasons)
They've done a bit of work to make it easily installable on modern systems and accessible to non technical users so that's surely worth a few extra dollars.