How will all this bad news affect sales? It probably won't.
Yeah this mess has gone way beyond simple mistakes or miscalculation into utter contempt for your customers.Why would anyone EVER give EA their money after this?
It's one thing to deliver a defective product or fuck up a launch. We see that all the time with everyone from Nintendo to Team Meat.
It's another thing to openly show contempt for your users like EA has. Censoring their own phone number/email address so users don't contact them. Putting in code to block offline play (there's a difference between requiring online by game design and actively blocking offline play just to be dicks).
EA doesn't give a damn about you or your experience or your satisfaction. They want to get your money and for you to then shut the fuck up and go away.
Don't support them. Regardless of whether or not you like Sim City or Battlefield or Madden or any other title they put out.
How will all this bad news affect sales? It probably won't.
It's sad to say, but the people on this forum who are 'voting with their wallets' are probably/most likely a minority. A single piece of toilet paper against the mountain of shit. It'd be nice to see this on the tech portion of the news, but it won't.
EA will keep on counting that cash.
Why would anyone EVER give EA their money after this?
It's one thing to deliver a defective product or fuck up a launch. We see that all the time with everyone from Nintendo to Team Meat.
It's another thing to openly show contempt for your users like EA has. Censoring their own phone number/email address so users don't contact them. Putting in code to block offline play (there's a difference between requiring online by game design and actively blocking offline play just to be dicks).
EA doesn't give a damn about you or your experience or your satisfaction. They want to get your money and for you to then shut the fuck up and go away.
Don't support them. Regardless of whether or not you like Sim City or Battlefield or Madden or any other title they put out.
How will all this bad news affect sales? It probably won't.
It's sad to say, but the people on this forum who are 'voting with their wallets' are probably/most likely a minority. A single piece of toilet paper against the mountain of shit. It'd be nice to see this on the tech portion of the news, but it won't.
EA will keep on counting that cash.
C.R.E.A.M.
Once again, I have to wonder how many people bitching about this game have even played it (insert joke about servers) considering this is incredibly obvious to anyone that has. In fact, it is incredibly obvious to anyone who even just read the long ass thread we already had on this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=523776
I get that people want to pile on because it is fun watching a train wreck, etc. but there are so many more legitimate problems with the actual gameplay than rehashing for the 30th time whether or not they could have let you play offline
I'm sitting here clutching my deluxe edition of SimCity 4 and glossing over what Spore could have been in my mind.
Maxis once was full of greatness. The games aren't for everyone, but they were fun.
EA's twisted vision of what fun is destroyed SimCity.
I feel so bad for Will Wright. SimCity used to be so wonderful. I guess Tropico holds the thrown now.
Arthur gies must be going insane right now.
I stand corrected - but at least in this one you can turn online off, and not have to bother about friends, common goals and social stuff if you don't want it?
So, tech-savvy guys, are there any legitimate reason why the 20 minute timer is implemented? Other than just checking wheter you're connected or not?
Due to the way saves work in the game, if the game didn't have any timeout and your net connection wouldn't be up again by the time the connection re-established to upload the save, everything you've done in the time between the last save and that point would be gone.So, tech-savvy guys, are there any legitimate reason why the 20 minute timer is implemented? Other than just checking wheter you're connected or not?
After this shit he should say that he has to eat his words, this is ridiculous. Maybe he's capable of admitting he was dead wrong but who knows..
I'm not tech-savvy, but if there's nothing in the way of "complex calculations" going on server-side, then it's mandatory to implement something like this, or people could just pull the cord and continue playing.So, tech-savvy guys, are there any legitimate reason why the 20 minute timer is implemented? Other than just checking wheter you're connected or not?
Due to the way saves work in the game, if the game didn't have any timeout and your net connection wouldn't be up again by the time the connection re-established to upload the save, everything you've done in the time between the last save and that point would be gone.
It's a sensible default for a few scenarios.
The better solution would be to keep a local copy until online again then upload it same way that ps3/360 works with cloud saves, in fact even better have local saves with the option to store in the cloud
The better solution would be to keep a local copy until online again then upload it same way that ps3/360 works with cloud saves, in fact even better have local saves with the option to store in the cloud
If Sim City is an MMO so is tetris and duke nukem 3d.
So wait... let me get this straight... You are telling us that this joke is essentially true:
So you're surprised?
Every day I'm almost excited to see what new drama has unfolded with this game. It's gonna suck when this is forgotten =/
My take on an unfortunate situation:
Why does anyone still want to play offline? I mean before we all actually played the game it was an issue but now that we have it's just not a very good game. You don't have to balance your budget at all you can run a 30k /hour deficit and still be a millionaire with ease. The plot sizes are so tiny that every city you make basically looks the same. It's just a boring game. I don't see how playing a boring game offline makes it fun.
Now when the modders start fixing the actual game then I'll be excited. Building roads outside the boundaries was a great start.
He'll still claim he was right since you can't play online offline.
EA isn't going to suffer more than a blip over this. Boycotters will vanish when Battlefield 4 or the next Mass Effect comes out. Because EA keeps doing this (Dragon Age 2, KOTOR, Mass Effect 3 ending, even the latest Need for Speed was pretty lousy) and it never seems to make a noticeable dent in their sales.