No shit! That's precisely the problem. Specifically it's your problem since it's your job to ensure that we have a good experience playing your game.Some dick at Maxis said:
Zero Punctuation: SimCity
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The "online feature" thing is a complete crock of shit.
Yes, I can build besides other players, online. You could call that a Multiplayer. Since you can decide whether to play with somebody else or not anyway by plucking your LAN cable out of the modem, this couldn't have been the reason we need to stay online for.
So, then they told us that the server was necessary, because it would take over many of the calculations going on for your town because it is so complex, your PC can't even handle it. As if the installed game was just a spearhead, established on your computer by the server, that was running the real game.
This was meant, when Yahtzee told us about "offline would be a bad experience".
Until it was discovered only 4 days later that that was an utter lie, because the game runs fine offline when hacked and the stuff they claimed to need a server for was a) not as complex as they claimed and b) ran the exact fucking same way when played offline.
So that's it?
No real reason to have this always-online shit then?
You're still gonna make me do it?
Then it is the contemptible notion that I would steal a game from you that makes EA make me install Origin.
Wich I still fucking can, because, as said above, the DRM was circumvented 4 days after that press release!
So, what it is, in essence, is just being a dick to your customer so you can get your dick sucked by your stockholders.
"Look at me, I'm fighting piracy! Look how well I fight piracy! I have an online platform and everything! Look! Look! Suck my diiiiiiiiiick!"
Yes, I can build besides other players, online. You could call that a Multiplayer. Since you can decide whether to play with somebody else or not anyway by plucking your LAN cable out of the modem, this couldn't have been the reason we need to stay online for.
So, then they told us that the server was necessary, because it would take over many of the calculations going on for your town because it is so complex, your PC can't even handle it. As if the installed game was just a spearhead, established on your computer by the server, that was running the real game.
This was meant, when Yahtzee told us about "offline would be a bad experience".
Until it was discovered only 4 days later that that was an utter lie, because the game runs fine offline when hacked and the stuff they claimed to need a server for was a) not as complex as they claimed and b) ran the exact fucking same way when played offline.
So that's it?
No real reason to have this always-online shit then?
You're still gonna make me do it?
Then it is the contemptible notion that I would steal a game from you that makes EA make me install Origin.
Wich I still fucking can, because, as said above, the DRM was circumvented 4 days after that press release!
So, what it is, in essence, is just being a dick to your customer so you can get your dick sucked by your stockholders.
"Look at me, I'm fighting piracy! Look how well I fight piracy! I have an online platform and everything! Look! Look! Suck my diiiiiiiiiick!"
No, thanks for proving my point though. When the vocal minority won't shut up about how EA is everything wrong with everything and anyone who disagrees is too stupid to see how wrong they are and responds with insults *cough* I'm going to argue with them, same reason I pick fights with this site's over abundance of Bronies and Steam fanboys. When one side of an argument is very loud and very smug about it, I frequently find myself agreeing with the quieter side more.Iron Criterion said:
Hopefully, EA will one day realize that Bug-Fixing isn't an optional stage in development that can be left until after the game is sold.
EA had made it clear that they think it makes more sense to get someone's money and then screw them over with DRM, unfair perma-bans and the like, than to give good customer service to encourage them to purchase more games in the future.
EA had made it clear that they think it makes more sense to get someone's money and then screw them over with DRM, unfair perma-bans and the like, than to give good customer service to encourage them to purchase more games in the future.
That seems overly complicated. I prefer playing the "I wonder if this is blocked game". You may not get your first choice but its creative and fun. It may turn out playing as the mayor of "Pontius Pilate" is better than "skcolloB s'goD".Rhys95 said:
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I wish Zooey Dechannel would kick down my door and drag me to a roller rink.
yeah, if he's cleaning himself with that game, lord knows how filthy it feels to have origin in the vicinityEd130 said:The Binding of IssacMagmarock said:What was that indie game he was scrubbing himself with? I want to know
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/
Currently 75% off leaving it $1.24 USD! (price taken from Steam browser store using a New Zealand IP address)
You seem like an expert on the subject. Is there anyway to change the theme of the city? I'm getting bored of US suburbia/downtown and want to make a wild west town, or a European style town - you know, with different architectural styles and stuff. Is there a mod for these themes, or is it in the game already?KelDG said:
Yahtzee was surprisingly calm about the whole "Always Online DRM" thing that plagued SimCity.
Given how SimCity was usually a single player thing, I was expecting his reaction to be slightly more... volatile.
Given how SimCity was usually a single player thing, I was expecting his reaction to be slightly more... volatile.
agreed, 'At this point it's becoming generic bioshock dough that looks like it rolled around in dishonoured's playpen and picked up a few loose level design building blocks, like a soiled piece of blutak after you pick it out of the grimy end of the couch'Kayweg said:
ect ect.
it might be an arrant pixel getting stretched to comical proportions but he'll find something wrong with every game, forever. don't you worry
Hilariously scathing, as usual. Seriously, anyone thinking EA doesn't care about the players anymore?
Also, I got a real kick out of the credits sequence this week.
Also, I got a real kick out of the credits sequence this week.
In my opinion keeping the Sims import feature would be a great way to show off how individual sims in your city have their own lives with their own jobs and houses and how they go to movies and other crap. I wonder why they decided to remove it?
This one was less of a review of Simcity and more an comprehensive argument for why EA are shit.
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Well, I was going by news that EA stock prices had ended up falling another cumulative 8% or so, given news of a slide after Riccitiello left.Bad Jim said:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-03-20-ea-stock-plummets-as-markets-reassess-riccitiello-departure
Of course, take the news with more than a few grains of salt, but reporting the most marked loss of over a year and a half is not likely to make shareholders happy with the effects of a year's time and several big title launches effectively being nil, considering EA's reporting stock prices being not far off from what they were a year ago.
Finally, on the point of DRM, there's this statement made by EA the day of this ZP release, which comes off as either covering their tracks and/or bases, more PR spin, or morbidly amusing, depending on how you want to view it.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-03-27-ea-drm-is-a-failed-dead-end-strategy
EA did. But the multiplayer designed came from the people at Maxis. EA just doesn't want more pirates stealing from them. Would you like it if someone stole from you? Maybe DRM wouldn't happen if people in the community controlled themselves and just bought them. There's no reason to complain if your the one causing the problem.Iron Criterion said: