Let the DRM rape continue! New SimCity

[MadMaxHellfire]

feels like simcity societies 2.0.
i can't find worse insults for a city builder.

 

[sea]

 

[felipepepe]

Lesson: I won't be buying SimCity.

I bet that doesn't mean he won't be playing SimCity...

 

[Angthoron]

Lesson: I won't be buying SimCity.

I bet that doesn't mean he won't be playing SimCity...

But but but... Always online surely will prevent the dread pirates from hacking this magnificent piece of software!

 

[Spectacle]

Lesson: I won't be buying SimCity.

I bet that doesn't mean he won't be playing SimCity...

But but but... Always online surely will prevent the dread pirates from hacking this magnificent piece of software!

Much of the game logic is surely server side, so it probably will in this case, at least for a long time.

There's still no complete pirate version of Diablo 3...

 

[ohWOW]

It's because it's so shit, nobody cares about it anymore.

 

[Angthoron]

Lesson: I won't be buying SimCity.

I bet that doesn't mean he won't be playing SimCity...

But but but... Always online surely will prevent the dread pirates from hacking this magnificent piece of software!

Much of the game logic is surely server side, so it probably will in this case, at least for a long time.

There's still no complete pirate version of Diablo 3...

I wouldn't necessarily attribute that to the supreme power of the Cloud.

 

[waywardOne]

Stories like this always make me put the Civ2 shortcut back on the desktop.

 

[Turjan]

If this thread did one good thing, it was that it made me look at SimCity 4. What a great game! I spent much too much time already on it.

In the beginning, it crashed on me a lot, but I managed to fix that completely. The game runs now stable as a rock. There are tons of people who still produce content every day, it's funny for a game that's more than 10 years old. Morrowind may be similar in some way, but there are not that many fundamental game changers there, like the NAM, which fixes the traffic simulator.

On the other hand, this makes me a bit sad about the new game and the involved shenenigans. I don't know, but the new game doesn't even look that realistic to me. On the plus side, my urge to buy the new Simcity has pretty much subsided by now.

 

[RK47]

Lesson: I won't be buying SimCity.

I bet that doesn't mean he won't be playing SimCity...

It was beta.

 

[Jaesun]

Wow. You offer friendly constructive criticism and are instantly banned. EA really is fucking shit.

 

[Average Manatee]

Wait until release, where you'll get banned from Simcity and every other EA game when you make quality forum posts.

Was that you sea or someone else?

 

[sea]

Nah, just some images I found around the Internets.

 

[Toffeli]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2298708
https://twitter.com/moskow23/status/296355832998801408
Btw. game runs on a single thread.

 

[DalekFlay]

When all this DRM bullshit started I evaluated and made the firm decision to never support always online for singleplayer, especially if portions of the game were held server-side. I have lived up to this, not buying Ubisoft games for a while until they removed the requirement, not buying Diablo 3... this will be no different. It's the common sense middle-ground for me, simple authentications are more or less painless and can be removed by others if the companies never do it before going out of business. Always online server hosting is much more insidious.

However I harbor no illusions, the mainstream market don't care. Diablo 3's sales numbers prove that and so will Sim City's.

 

[Kirtai]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2298708
Btw. game runs on single thread.

I think your link is pointing to the wrong place.

 

[DalekFlay]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/05/gamers-line-up-to-play-simcity/

30 minute queues to play a the new Sim City game... it's always online after all, because only socially retarded assholes like singleplayer games. Don't worry though, you can set your world to invitation only and pretend it's singleplayer, suffering the super small city size because you're a desperate douche.

Just wait 30 minutes to play.

 

[Spectacle]

LOL. Hand's up those who didn't expect this to happen

 

[evdk]

Has there been an always online AAA title launch that hasn't fucked up and gauged the initial interest correctly?

 

[Tytus]

Hey Blizzard I found a match for you. Now kiss!

 

[DalekFlay]

At least Diablo 3 Blizzard could halfway justify it with being a multiplayer-heavy game the previous iteration powerhouse that can fuck over anyone they want and still sell copies.

Not so for Sim City EA.

 

[Raapys]

Has there been an always online AAA title launch that hasn't fucked up and gauged the initial interest correctly?

Don't think so, and doubt there will be. I mean, it's not that they're stupid or can't predict it, it's that it's not a financially sane decision to build that much capacity since a game always lose a big'ish percent of its player base within a week or so. Not to mention that the exact day of release will also have much more players than any other day even if the player-count does hold for a longer period.

 

[hoverdog]

GeminiathXLsays:
tl;dr:
2013: If a game is not perfect, the game must die. Especially if its published by EA.
Seriously, you lot are so tiring. I wonder when gaming became bitching about anything other than the game itself.

rule 48 - for even the most idiotic and unfriendly product, a apologist will arise.

 

[evdk]

Raapys
Well, if the devil really exists and the always online model manages to become a permanent part of gaming instead of a sad fad, they probably will be able to temporarily borrow the capacity to withstand the launch day users from their other titles. Possibly. Or it will make all the games unplayable, which is what will more likely happen, given the jokers running the industry.

 

[Gord]