SimCity Goes Offline With Official Update
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Well done. Now continue this momentum and develop games for the people you sell them to, to give your customers the best possible experience, up to and possibly including the point that it starts to hurt your own profit margins.
Make good solid games, provide good solid service, be a good solid company, and maybe you might make a game I consider worth £40 again.
"Now that it's on Steam we don't have to go through Origin" you say. I had this same belief until I found this disclaimer for "The Sims 3" during Steam's winter sale:JenSeven said:
Yes, that's how evil EA is. Even if you buy the game on Steam you still register for Origin.
More like "Too little, too late" my good Mr. Chalk, though there are those that would assume that that's what you were getting at. Not me of course (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).Andy Chalk said:
The core problem with SimCity was that the intention of Maxis was to simulate the actual complete traffic in the city, while at the same time keep it visible and real to the player.Gorrath said:
So the premise is: within a set amount of time all the traffic in the city (say: a person going to work) must have completed its movements (after all, they have to get to work on time), but at the same time, the traffic has to be slow enough to be visible and interactive to the player.
Now the consequence of this is, traffic does not move fast enough for it to effectively flow through the city (otherwise it wouldn't be visible to the player). Result: as the city grows bigger, the traffic jams grow exponentially, basically blocking everything. And 'everything' includes services like the fire department, police, ambulances, garbage disposal and school buses. So yeah, the whole town goes to shit.
As far as I know, this has not been fixed (it wasn't when I checked on it last week) and I doubt that it will be fixed.
Chalk up a bunch of points for you, EA. Heck, this covers your point loss for the mod restrictions, and then some.
You're still going in the right direction!
You're still going in the right direction!
*[citation needed]Andy Chalk said:
**"So we can steal it and then sell it for ourselves, as per our Terms & Conditions."
It's all very well and good finally making SimCity work offline, but what about all the other shoddily programmed and/or downright broken "features" of the game?
The next step is removing city limits and just let us build all over the region map, making cities ourselves. "But the game is built around the regions!" yeah stuff it we all know the bullshit speech.
I only have one thing to say.
"Number one! Make it so!"
I only have one thing to say.
"Number one! Make it so!"
I might actually cave and buy this, despite my boycott of EA. I do want to support EA when it makes good decisions. They make bad ones so often I just don't buy anything they churn out, but when they do something right, I feel an urge to support it.
That said, it really could have benefited more from repealing the forced online nine months ago.
That said, it really could have benefited more from repealing the forced online nine months ago.
I actually think multiplayer would have been more popular if it had of been a choice. If people are told they can only go one way then most will reject it, compared to being given the choice, I'd say they'd have had better luck giving a choice.blackrave said:
About time EA, there was no excuse for the crap you were pulling, companies need to learn going always online is the dumb path.
So they pretty much took the crack and applied it thus making it official? Sure seems like it.
On the flip side, I was never interested in this series but I think the damage is done already and I don't see many people going back to it.
On the flip side, I was never interested in this series but I think the damage is done already and I don't see many people going back to it.
Too little, too late. I'm not going to reward EA for releasing a half-baked product 12 months ago, and eventually patching it into something playable by now.
Thanks for the reply. I am a big fan of Sim City, but just having an offline mode won't mean much if the game remains fundamentally broken. Perhaps if the modding community can fix some of these issues, I'll consider it. I appreciate the info!GundamSentinel said:
Nope, they very explicitly apply to all mods:zerragonoss said:
www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/modding-and-simcity
"By Mods we mean any modification or alterations to SimCity, including add-ons, new content, modified UI, or updates that use content from SimCity such as code, art, footage or other elements"
It doesn't matter what part of the game you mod, it's bound by their rules. On the plus side, I fail to see how that's in any way enforceable. Since it's offline, they have no possible way of knowing what anyone might have done to the game and there's nothing they can do about anyway. It could make distribution of mods more difficult though, since many sites will be reluctant to host anything that could get them sued by EA.
Quick? It's been 10 months, at this point they don't deserve any kudos for doing anything.BigTuk said:Wow! Now all trhey need to do is increase the city map size and it'll be just as good as Simcity 4
Still kudos for EA for backtracking on their BS.
*looks at Blizzard* See that Blizzard even EA seems to be faster at correcting their Bullshite than you. EA! If you needed any proof at how far Blizzard has rolled into the darkside this is it. EA is quicker to realize and correct their mistakes.
Proves how horrible EA is.
Now I MIGHT buy it if they add farms, terraforming, much larger cities, more customization, and a slew of other stuff.
For now I'll just play Cities XL and SimCity 4.
Now I MIGHT buy it if they add farms, terraforming, much larger cities, more customization, and a slew of other stuff.
For now I'll just play Cities XL and SimCity 4.