Metacritic Users Bomb Sim City

[Ironbat92]

Once again, a game gets bomb on Metacritic, and this time it's Sim City:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/simcity
http://www.destructoid.com/simcity-metacritic-user-reviews-are-brutal-brutal-brutal--248159.phtml
I haven't played Sim City since I'm not a P.C gamer, but I can understand why it's so despised on Metacritic. If DRM ruins or hurts an experience to the point where you can't play a game, then it shouldn't be in it. I get that Publishers do it, to avoid piracy, but would you're gonna put something in that will upset Customers and potential buyers, then it shouldn't be in it since you can't stop piracy.

Thoughts?

 

[Kopikatsu]

I get that Publishers do it, to avoid piracy, but would you're gonna put something in that will upset Customers and potential buyers, then it shouldn't be in it since you can't stop piracy.

Can't stop crime. Legalize all crime! Think of all the money we'll save without having to keep up a police force or prisons. Billions upon billions!

Anywho, a mature way to handle things, as always. Stay classy, gaming community. Still waiting for GoW:A to be review nuked because of the 'Bros before Hoes' achievement.

 

[spartandude]

game gets bombed on metacritic? what a shocker

heck even when games work perfectly fine they get bombed

 

[Keoul]

They can stop piracy simply by offering a better service even with the anti-piracy software.
Just look at steam, DRM but everyone is fine with it (or the vast majority anyway) because it doesn't get in the way and everything actually works the way it's suppose to.

As to why people on metacritic hate it, the reason is that it's a buggy piece of shit with arguably even more problems.

-Overpopulated servers: therefore some peeps can't connect and can't play, so basically they bought a game that they can't play because of a problem on EAs side.
-Game bugs: I read a chap had an error where his cities were "time traveling", you can have multiple cities in this game and they can interact with each other, however some cities that for example had a level 8 school was shown to have only a level 1 school in other cities.
-Shifty EULA: "If you know about a Bug or have heard about a Bug and fail to report the Bug to EA, we reserve the right to treat you no differently from someone who abuses the Bug. You acknowledge that EA reserve the right to lock anyone caught abusing a Bug out of all EA products." Though now fixed, it's still worth mentioning as to why it was even in the EULA at all. Most likely scare tactics but then again barely anyone reads EULA so that probably wasn't the case.
-Also just added info, when the server issues became too much they solved it not by optimizing the software and whatnot but by disabling features like leader boards and achievements.

Though by now it might all just be hate due to it being a hot topic, EA sure is taking it's time to iron out the kinks (which should have been ironed out in the beta). I doubt it could recover and even if it did noone would be interested in it anymore.

 

[Genocidicles]

Can't stop crime. Legalize all crime! Think of all the money we'll save without having to keep up a police force or prisons. Billions upon billions!

Well law enforcement is a deterrent to most crimes, whereas DRM just encourages piracy because you're getting a superior product if you pirate it.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Can't stop crime. Legalize all crime! Think of all the money we'll save without having to keep up a police force or prisons. Billions upon billions!

Well law enforcement is a deterrent to most crimes, whereas DRM just encourages piracy because you're getting a superior product if you pirate it.

It deters piracy for casual users. I'm sure there are many, many people who won't even bother if it's more complicated than just downloading it straight up. Which is why the music industry is fairly fine despite the super massive amounts of piracy. Because for everyone who downloads two hundred songs for their ipod, there are twenty who just buy CDs or use the Apple store.

Plus, something like SimCity or Diablo 3 can't be pirated because most information is stored server-side. There are pirated versions of Diablo 3 you can download, but they don't have nearly as much content as the genuine article.

Edit: Double plus, if nothing is illegal, then there's nothing for police to deter.

 

[Andy Shandy]

And the least surprising thing I've heard this week goes to.

Although as much I find Meta-bombing childish, I will concede that people have actually had good reason to this time. They can't play their game!