^That's good, but they should still offer refunds for digital downloads. Letting it get to the point where players have to reverse charges to get their money back will end up costing EA.
I've bought it but I'm not sure if I can play it. I'm about to find out. The launch issues are not encouraging but word is that it's still a fine game underneath, and those things will get sorted out over the next week or two.
Too bad. I loved SC games since Amiga times but I won't buy this. Well, I will. For 10 euros in a few years, with all the money grabbing DLCs integrated and the always-online crap stripped out. I won't pay for half a game I can't play whenever I want. They can go and shove the pay, pay, pay again Sims model up their collective backsides.
The always online stuff is integrated with the game. They made your individual cities smaller and boxed in, but you are in a region now with between 2 and 16 cities. You get friends to join, and you share resources and help each other along the way. You also both contribute to great works. The way they made cities smaller creates the need to ally with other cities, which you CAN take over for yourself, but you have to run multiple cities at the same time. Also, you can't change the topography. If you have a hill you can't build on, it's there forever.
I don't want to play with friends. Or strangers. I want to build my own monu-fucking-mental megacity. Well. Too bad. No money from me, EA.
They really screwed this up. I think I'll stick with SimCity 4 or Tropico. This 'always online' crap is getting annoying.
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/maxis-apologies-for-simcity-launch-issues/1100-4600/ Maxis formally apologized and is giving away a free game. No word on what it is.
Agreed, I was ready to buy it before reading that. The graphics are beautiful, but I want to be an absolute dictator without any competing cities.
Not really surprising, but someone has already managed to modify SimCity 5 so it can be played offline. It looks like the only catch is that if you want to save, you have to reconnect to a server. I'm sure a fix for that will be discovered eventually, it's pretty impressive that this was accomplished only a week after the game was released.
Someone also found a way to build outside the borders which seems like a big complaint. This is all troubling, since Maxis is lying about things. They said things necessary to the game were happening in the server so you needed to be connected at all times. That's not true. It all happens locally, then saves and uploads it to the server. Then that data gets deleted. (or something like that)
Is anyone really surprised though? I knew from the second they told us it would always require an internet connection that anything they told us after that as to the reasons why was a cute story to hide their DRM garbage.
SimCity Mod Lets Users Destroy Anyone's Online City Thanks To Always-On DRM Jesus Christ, Maxis. Way to let EA ruin everything. The link has a Youtube video of the modder bulldozing and unleashing disasters on someone's city.
When the game first launched there was a bug where you could build parks in other peoples' cities. It would build over what was already there and use their money.
OMFG!!!! It almost makes me want to buy it just so I can destroy the WORLD!!!!! Online of course......
It's no coincidence. Between the botching of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and now this, I'm not surprised.
They're giving away a free game to anyone who bought the game at launch. Not a bad list, I'm going for Dead Space 3. Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition) Bejeweled 3 Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition) Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition) MOHW (Standard Edition) NFS Most Wanted (Standard Edition) Plants vs. Zombies SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
