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Vapourware LOL ELECTRONIC ARTS: The EA Thread

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PS4 Graphics Impressive to People Who Have Never Played Modern PC Games
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Nothing trolly about this.
 
Azalin

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Jack said:
Angthoron said:
http://www.p4rgaming.com/
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:excellent:

Just bookmarked it
 
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Turjan said:
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Some of the other dumbing down complaints I've noticed:

  • No partial funding of civic buildings, they're on or off
  • Removal of density zoning (choose only the three basic zone types, density is determined instead by parks and traffic)
  • No farms or subways
  • Removal of several power plant types, including dams (I haven't seen anywhere that power plants wear down, so I'm guessing that's gone too)
  • Removal of power lines, water pipes, and sewage pipes, reducing the need for planning - all automatically placed along with roads
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To be fair, there weren't any dams or sewage pipes in Simcity 4, either. The sewage pipe system was somewhere buried in the system files, but non-functional and off limits. Honestly, the way water pipes and power lines worked in the former titles was more tedious (water pipes) or non-sensical (power lines) than anything else. Want to connect power? Just zone a one tile wide agricultural strip.
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For the question of dumbing down though - previously one had to balance the cost of maintenance of infrastructure and civic services with the cost of development. With the removal of infrastructure and civic services funding, along with the removal of road maintenance, the player need no longer balance anything. Its flat fees for everything, no maintenance costs. Which strikes at the heart of what makes a city sim a city sim, and shifts simcity far away from being a city simulation and towards being a straight up design program.
 
Turjan

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Telengard said:
Turjan said:
Telengard said:
Some of the other dumbing down complaints I've noticed:

  • No partial funding of civic buildings, they're on or off
  • Removal of density zoning (choose only the three basic zone types, density is determined instead by parks and traffic)
  • No farms or subways
  • Removal of several power plant types, including dams (I haven't seen anywhere that power plants wear down, so I'm guessing that's gone too)
  • Removal of power lines, water pipes, and sewage pipes, reducing the need for planning - all automatically placed along with roads
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To be fair, there weren't any dams or sewage pipes in Simcity 4, either. The sewage pipe system was somewhere buried in the system files, but non-functional and off limits. Honestly, the way water pipes and power lines worked in the former titles was more tedious (water pipes) or non-sensical (power lines) than anything else. Want to connect power? Just zone a one tile wide agricultural strip.
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For the question of dumbing down though - previously one had to balance the cost of maintenance of infrastructure and civic services with the cost of development. With the removal of infrastructure and civic services funding, along with the removal of road maintenance, the player need no longer balance anything. Its flat fees for everything, no maintenance costs. Which strikes at the heart of what makes a city sim a city sim, and shifts simcity far away from being a city simulation and towards being a straight up design program.
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I was just commenting on certain points you made, which either weren't removed for the current game but were already not in the last one or were badly designed in the predecessors. No contest regarding the general dumbing down. The new game doesn't look as if it would be interesting for very long, given that you cannot do much.
 
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sea said:
Angthoron said:
http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1473
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:bravo:

Step up the game Codex, there's new competition in town.
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This is gold :lol:

Play4Real: Rumor has it that you are being paid by EA, is this true?
citybuilder229: No, this is not true.
Play4Real: Then why are you posting only good things about SimCity’s always online requirement?
citybuilder229: Because I was told by EA representative to post them.
Play4Real: But you said you weren’t being paid by EA.
citybuilder229: I have not been paid yet.
Play4Real: Oh, okay. Is there anything else you can tell us about this deal you made?
citybuilder229: I am to be paid one RMB (approximately .16 USD) per good post I make.
Play4Real: How many posts have you made?
citybuilder229: 780.​
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Jick Magger

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I did see a thread on NeoGaf get linked on /v/ yesterday which had a viraller in it. Guy was called Glassbox, spent the little amount of time his account existed to go man damage control in Sim City/EA threads, asked really bizarre questions (like asking another person to specifically mention what he enjoyed about the game), then got banned in short order.

It was a strange little episode, to be sure.
 
Major_Blackhart

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So, this is interesting. I'm surprised that I haven't seen this thread before.
Anyway, I'm not surprised that EA is a shitworks company.
This has been going on a long time.
Still, for some reason, call me crazy, but I like Activision's brand of madness a bit better than EA's.
At least Kotick is honest about how he wants to milk every fucking penny from every game possible.
 
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EA is just below angry managment, but above brazilians, in general consensus.

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