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SimCity requires an internet connection in order to [start]
- Thread starter crimsonheadGCN
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I for one am glad that it still is. And you're going to hear a lot more when single-player console games start pulling the same shit.
And really, this is the company that puts out press releases congratulating themselves on shutting down even more severs every few months.
Hari Seldon
Member
This isn't exactly a game I would run out and be excited for right away. The fact that it is not on steam means that I will never buy it, because I will never even know that it is released.
This is the stuff that will increase piracy. Micro transactions i think is fine for most of the time. If it is a game i play 100+ hours it dosent feel wrong to pay more to get new stuff.
Sadly i wont play this game that long. I really hate to start up Origin.
Edit: Yea its a no buy at launch http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/28/simcity-will-not-support-mods-at-launch/
Sadly i wont play this game that long. I really hate to start up Origin.
Edit: Yea its a no buy at launch http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/28/simcity-will-not-support-mods-at-launch/
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I already have this paid off but if and when, i'll get an offline crack because this is pretty stupid on EA's part.
toythatkills
Member
Yeah, I've already stopped buying EA games. Would have really liked SimCity but I'm not prepared to pay £40 to rent a game for a few months, so I'm done with EA and anything they release in the future.
Just posting in this thread to show there are plenty of people not bothered by any of this in the least. None of this bothers me in the least and I will be buying this game day 1.
I don't like Origin, but its in no way a dealbreaker for me. I prefer steam like everyone else, but so what? It's not like this game requires Onlive (lol).
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with requiring an internet connections, its TWO-THOUSAND-TWELVE. Everyone who wants Sim City 5 has internet or can get it. Might as well complain that this game requires always on electricity.
I don't like Origin, but its in no way a dealbreaker for me. I prefer steam like everyone else, but so what? It's not like this game requires Onlive (lol).
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with requiring an internet connections, its TWO-THOUSAND-TWELVE. Everyone who wants Sim City 5 has internet or can get it. Might as well complain that this game requires always on electricity.
FrontalMonk
Banned
you make it sound like people never have internet outages. It doesn't happen to me often, maybe a couple times a year, but when it does I like to have single player games waiting in the wings. Simcity won't be one of those. It's just a further encroachment of consumer rights.
inb4 lol consumers have no rights
Having internet access is only half the problem, friend. Once a game has required online authentication, the publisher has complete control over people's access to the game. Do you really think that the EA of today would be happy if this game was still being played 5+ years from now? They could conceivably shut down this year's model to force people into a more recent version. You know, the same thing they already do with their other games.
I think it's pretty obvious that EA is the worst publisher in the industry.
Did everyone miss this from an earlier article? http://www.shacknews.com/article/72841/simcity-to-support-play-anywhere-online-design
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
There goes missing the worrying part of this requirement.
I think the bigger concern, like I posted and others have also mentioned, is that it severely hampers the ability of using this as a time waster on a laptop which is a shame because this is a game series that's perfect for it. Additionally, there is the worry that they then shut down the server which would kill the game. In theory, it'd be possible for Maxis to patch out that requirement before doing so or something, but we know that EA would not let that happen.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
The exodus has begun
I'm out like 450 arcologies blasting off into the sunset.
I'm out like 450 arcologies blasting off into the sunset.
br0ken_shad0w
Member
I have no problems with my internet. My uptime is 117 days and counting.
My concern is on EA's side. The same EA who pulls the plugs of games not even a year old and the same EA that will have random downtimes or maintanence at their discretion.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
1. Take away impact of other people turning multiplayer into single player with foul-mouthed bots.
2. Require always-online with single player like multiplayer does.
3. ???
4. Progress!
2. Require always-online with single player like multiplayer does.
3. ???
4. Progress!
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I'm more worried on the limited installs crap.
I'd assume there's cracks for that, too.
yeah. We've reached the point where we have to pirate the games we buy to get them to work properly.
Why would anyone buy in such a scenario?
I've been cracking games just to make them playable since Kotor. Game kept asking for the disk and wouldn't start. I still buy games. But only after they cracked (if the DRM is bad)
SquiddyCracker
Banned
It sounds like they're looking at implementing mods in the form of paid for DLC.
I was somewhat interested in the title, but I am not going to deal with these anti-consumerist measures.
Unfortunately it probably won't matter what I do, as most gaming consumers are ignorant of their buying power.
I was somewhat interested in the title, but I am not going to deal with these anti-consumerist measures.
Unfortunately it probably won't matter what I do, as most gaming consumers are ignorant of their buying power.
yeah, but the point is, when you have to jump through more hoops (including actually pirating the game) to play a legit copy than you do to play a pirated copy, only the most honest of players are going to bother to buy.
A purchased product shouldn't bring with it the hassles of piracy.
I don't have to pirate the game, I just replace one file.
I missed this reply... it is really stupid.
Sim City is a game that i play generally play on summer and in summer i go in a small town where 99% of the people doesn't even know what internet is and of course at my summer house i obviously don't have any internet connection. Can you explain me how I and the people who only wants to play when they want and where they want manage to play the game?
Of course now you only can't play Sim City and few others game but if people begin to accept this kind of thing in no time people can't play anything more without requiring an internet connection...
also the bolded part it's even more stupid because potentially you can play the game without internet but you can't without electricity.
GAF Gold costs too much, maybe if they lower the price.
Hilarious that they're artificially instituting this restriction after previously admitting that the game is playable offline. Because fuck you, you fucking customer, fuck you.
SimCity 4 didn't have mod support at launch either. They've discussed multiple times that SimCity will absolutely have mod support.
Much like Skyrim, it'll probably just take a few months modding to be made easier than nasty hacks.
SimCity 4 didn't have mod support at launch either. They've discussed multiple times that SimCity will absolutely have mod support.
Much like Skyrim, it'll probably just take a few months modding to be made easier than nasty hacks.
10000/10
Because they specifically said otherwise merely 3 weeks ago.
EdibleExplosives
Member
Urgh, fuck this. This probably won't affect me since I'm almost always online when I play games but it's still bullshit. The fact that this seems to be becoming more common is ridiculous.
Art Teitlebaum
Member
Shit. I was really hyped for it. I loved 3000 for years and years and years.
But now I will pass as long as there are no means to play offline.
Sigh, EA. You don' make it very difficult to hate you.
But now I will pass as long as there are no means to play offline.
Sigh, EA. You don' make it very difficult to hate you.
When EA shuts down their Sim City servers in 2-3 years, your tears shall be glorious.
Thread should be renamed to Sim City 5 requires EA servers to be online!
Well, okay, it shouldn't, but that's the reality. There will be those who get around the always on DRM I'm sure, but the legit customers are going to get shafted down the line. Maybe not in the next three years, but eventually.
They're not exactly copying Ubisoft. The problem with Ubisoft is they offered no gameplay reason for online only. If they add gameplay reasons it's totally different.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36436900&postcount=115
Does that old article still apply though? I thought there was an old thread and article saying that there would NOT be always online/DRM required, and then the more recent news does require it, so it sounds like Maxis might not have intended it but then EA required it.
Or more news may come out that invalidates one or both sides of the equation, who knows.
EvilDick34
Banned
As long as EA requires me to install Origin to play their games, I WILL NOT BE BUYING YOUR GAMES EA.
Edit: Last EA supported game i bought? Crysis.
Edit: Last EA supported game i bought? Crysis.
If the servers shutdown in 2-3 years that means this game sucks. Diablo 2 servers are still going because people are still playing that game.
It's amazing how a gaming forum is full of people without internet connections and who all play games 5 years after release.
Here's my criteria for whether I'll buy Sim City 5: "Is it good?", that's it.
You know why these games are all online now? Because people don't buy, or end up pirating single player games a vast majority of the time. This is the reality, no amount of yelling changes it.
If you guys want to complain about day 1 dlc and microtransactions I'll join your chorus. If you want to complain about internet connection required games I couldn't care less
EvilDick34
Banned
It doesn't matter if it's good, i don't and will not pay for a game that makes me install Origin and then i have to have a constant internet connection to play. What if my connection goes down for a week? No Sim City for a week, that is bullshit.
Well I'm glad that your internet connection is perfectly stable and reliable. Did it ever occur to you that many people aren't as lucky?
And you seriously don't play games older than 5 years old? You know, people still play SC4, which released 8 years ago. Some people still play 2/3K
Not really. This game already sounds way better gameplay wise.