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Sim City is now down, the maintenance message is amazing
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QA for cracks?
SteveWinwood
Member
Compile a list, make a thread, and keep it updated yourself. You can do it. It won't be stickied but it will be seen by plenty.
That's sounds just like something a Chinese spammer would say. Get em, boys.
Good link, I'll try using that in my quest for a refund. Round 1: EA support person said the servers were fine and sent me instructions to restart my router. Nope, sorry, pretty sure that's not going to help your servers not to corrupt the game sessions
King Mystery
Member
How do we know people calling that article bogus aren't EA spies?
This "patch" you want would mean
1) re-coding EVERYTHING is look to see if you are online or not
2) new game modes/options for when you are offline
3) all the code that now runs on their servers has to be made to run on a local machine (all versions of windows/mac/etc...)
Not going to happen. It was designed from the ground up to be an online game.
no. the fuck we do. DONT BUY THIS SHIT!
wtf is the point of always online then, wtf........
NinjaTehFish
Banned
But a bunch of basement neck beards can in a couple of weeks?
C'mon son stop making excuses for EA's lousy shit.
And again people please please please call your local consumer affairs body and lodge complaints. Its the only way to get any action taken against EA that they will understand.
Mystic_Wanderer
Member
Maxis signed with EA. They're equally culpable. They designed an entire game around online - they're actually probably more culpable.
I had my guy try to play the game and give impressions (I bought him the game) .. I got 13 minutes of him swearing ... SimCity: Playing Games is for Chumps
They're turning us against each other!
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
Just read there is a crack in the works by the folks who handled the ANNO crack... yeah...
GoddyofAus
Banned
I cannot wait for Jim Sterling to tear this shit apart.
SteveWinwood
Member
If by signed with you mean bought by then sure.
Also if you believe that the people fixing shit in the trenches with their jobs on the line are the same people who designed the game to be always online and even thought it was a good idea then I don't know what to tell you.
TheVoidDragon
Member
I find it funny how they promised to keep the servers up and deal with things like this if it happened, and they haven't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KLYLmsEBGug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KLYLmsEBGug
I can write a post like on other board too, so what? It doesnt mean its legit.
I'm pretty sure that SimCity is doing some calculation on the servers, so just sending save from memory to localhost is not possible.
Anno probably just pust save file on Ubisoft servers, so it works like cloud saving, but i doubt SimCity works that way.
Fjolle
Member
Yea.. I'm sure that a guy that uses tpb do download his pirate games has contacts inside the release groups and knows when they release their cracks?
NinjaTehFish
Banned
Or you know he goes to a scene release website/forum.
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
Whatever man. Doesn't matter to me either way to me. If they ever crack it, ok cool. if not... ok. Cool. This situation is fucked up either way.
Hahaha. Oh man this whole thing is hilarious and everyone ever knew it would happen. That said I may have cracked and bought the game, but because of the lack of a computer (parts arriving in a few days anyway), I cannot play. Which I now see as a great, GREAT thing.
Lawl.
Haha. That's basically the same screen I saw one day I noticed my wife was swearing at her computer while playing cityville
I am not a fan of this vocal inflection.
My game shows up this afternoon so I can't wait to join in on the fun!
No. Simulation occurs in the cloud too. Maxi sure as hell isn't going to patch it. Someone may find a workaround but im not sure of the efficacy of getting that to work with such a heavily network integrated game.
Interrobang
Member
Glad to help. Keep us informed on your quest.
Exactly. I'm not buying this. I haven't bought anything with always-online DRM recently and I don't plan to moving forward. This includes the next generation of consoles.
Polygon is actually staffed by hundreds of Chinese spammers.
Maybe it's just me, but most of the people bitching have already given EA their money (good luck getting it back), and are all part of the problem. We knew about the DRM for months, you still gave EA your money, giving them justification, and now there are server problems?! Who could have seen that coming...
If you are against DRM like this, don't give them your money in the first place, and when you can't access your game because of these predictable DRM consequences, don't act surprised. The servers will eventually be smoothed out and all of this huffing and puffing will go away (until EA shuts the server down and you still preorder the next Sim City).
If you are against DRM like this, don't give them your money in the first place, and when you can't access your game because of these predictable DRM consequences, don't act surprised. The servers will eventually be smoothed out and all of this huffing and puffing will go away (until EA shuts the server down and you still preorder the next Sim City).
Probably still gonna be down, dude. Everybody's coming home Friday to play... and the servers are still down today for most people afaik and it's a Thursday. I can't imagine it will be any better over the weekend influx of EVEN MORE players.
Ohoh, now it all makes sense...
I think I've read a few posts along these lines.EA-DF said:
Read that one too, phrased barely more subtly.EA-China said:
yeah, erh... or... you know, hold him accountable?
Hrmm, yeah I kinda get that feeling.
See how things go but I won't get too bent out of shape for it. Would rather them tweak the servers and get the updates sorted before collecting my pitchfork
Fjolle
Member
It's.. Interesting.. Loads of people claiming that a crack already exists or that they know that some people are working on cracking it (no shit) and that it will come out within the week or that noone wants the game so noone will bother to crack it etc.. I haven't seen anyone come with a source of any of their claims, so I just assume that they are all correct.
Are we sure that this spokeperson wasn't a chinese spammer?
Have you guys seen this? Their solution is now to deactivate features to make the game playable.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/7/4075120/simcity-servers-update-maxis-disabling-features
Funny because some of those things were probably there in the first place to justify the always online stuff.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/7/4075120/simcity-servers-update-maxis-disabling-features
Funny because some of those things were probably there in the first place to justify the always online stuff.
Interrobang
Member
They're not sorted out, you're wasting your money.
they need to shut off DRM as thats a HUGE resource hog
I have probably wasted more money on Steam sale rubbish that I play for 5 minutes and never play again. £30 is not really an issue for me. Sure it is annoying but I will move on if its all busted and stuff.
Dead Prince
Banned
they should disable friends list and server browser all together.
SolsticeZero
Banned
Why, when they can just disable the game like they currently have?
Interrobang
Member
For those looking for refunds, this guy on Reddit made it look incredibly easy:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19ub8w/ea_simcity_game_got_refund/
Maybe use this as a reference.
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19ub8w/ea_simcity_game_got_refund/
Maybe use this as a reference.
Messofanego
Banned
ScepticMatt
Member
It's satire. Not true (theOnion style fakes)
SteveWinwood
Member
Just so people see it on this page that p4r site is a satire website similar to the onion. That is not a real story.
Edit: Beaten.
Edit: Beaten.