official SimCity (2013)

[Sandor]

Take away's from this:

1) EA are incapable of developing and releases games without Grade A f*** ups

2) "Critics" and "Reviewers" know s*** all about gaming. More often than not they're just a paid shill of the company in question.

3) Play OpenTTD instead. At least it works.

[spaceelf]

2) "Critics" and "Reviewers" know s*** all about gaming. More often than not they're just a paid shill of the company in question.

Actually, they played the game before launch...no server load to contend with.

[Teebor]

Take away's from this:

1) EA are incapable of developing and releases games without Grade A f*** ups

2) "Critics" and "Reviewers" know s*** all about gaming. More often than not they're just a paid shill of the company in question.

3) Play OpenTTD instead. At least it works.

OpenTTD to be fair is ****ing awesome :) The guys who develop that have put so much in to it

[Dane]

Definitely. It's an awesome game, especially at that price.

Who's up to create a "neowin" region? I'd do it, but I'm too lazy to invite all the ones that would want to join :)

edit: Please no sandbox mode. Cheating is not fun.

I dont think it would be big enough. You would need different regions.

[spaceelf]

I dont think it would be big enough. You would need different regions.

You can have 16 cities in a region...I doubt everyone in here wants to join in so we could definitely get one started and see what happens.

I'd do it, but I think I'm done with the game until they get the servers sorted. Well, mostly.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/78127/ea-continues-to-add-servers-to-alleviate-simcity-crush looks like they might not be done before the weekend, so get ready for more nerdrage

[Dane]

You can have 16 cities in a region...I doubt everyone in here wants to join in so we could definitely get one started and see what happens.

I'd do it, but I think I'm done with the game until they get the servers sorted. Well, mostly.

http://www.shacknews...e-simcity-crush looks like they might not be done before the weekend, so get ready for more nerdrage

I was able to play on the Euro sever a few times. I'll have to try it tonight.

[(Spork)]

Should I buy it for $27?

Pretty cheap here.

i would if i could get it for that price

[WildWayz]

Just sign this:

https://www.change.org/petitions/electronic-arts-inc-remove-always-online-drm-from-simcity-and-future-games#share

36,779 supporters so far - assume $60 a pop... that is $2.2m of money wasted so far!

[spaceelf]

I think I'll take a break from it until they sort the server issues, got tons of other new and old games to play anyway :)

[max22]

I am having fun.

[kiddingguy]

After a couple of days after release I'm still not able to log on and play when I would like.

Major f-up and big fail here if I might say so....

[Brandon H Supervisor]

people keep comparing this to the fail of the Diablo 3 launch. I say no. I'd say this launch fail is on a whole new level, I mean it's been what? 3-4 days already and almost everyone is STILL having issues. not to mention i keep hearing people say the game is still rather buggy once they do actually manage to get in

add that all on top of EA's broken promise of refunds if wanted and I can see some bad things in EA's future

[briangw]

Bwahahahaha

http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1473

[FiB3R]

Bwahahahaha

http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1473

It's a satire website.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1140452-rumour-ea-hires-chinese-spammers-to-post-positively-about-simcity

A fact most people seem to have missed in that thread. :rolleyes:

[fintechfooty]

Wow so much negativity here. Origin India will sell it for $28. But even then I am not sure I will get it.

2 things that **** me off

1. Always on DRM and internet

2. Ridiculously small cities. They look like Farmville 2 size.

These 2 points are inter related. Eliminate one, the other goes away as well.

I think they will be able to update the city size? I'm not sure on this though, and yeah the DRM is a load of ****.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Come on now, EA.

[KoL Veteran]

people keep comparing this to the fail of the Diablo 3 launch. I say no. I'd say this launch fail is on a whole new level, I mean it's been what? 3-4 days already and almost everyone is STILL having issues. not to mention i keep hearing people say the game is still rather buggy once they do actually manage to get in

add that all on top of EA's broken promise of refunds if wanted and I can see some bad things in EA's future

Diablo 3 was a good launch compared to this. I was playing Diablo 3 fine the day after release.

[briangw]

It's a satire website.

http://www.neowin.ne...y-about-simcity

A fact most people seem to have missed in that thread. :rolleyes:

Meh, knowing EA, I still wouldn't be surprised that they would pull something off like this.

[spaceelf]

They said new servers are going up in the next 2-3 days, so this weekend is probably shot. After that it should be good to go.

[neufuse Veteran]

day 3, still no sign of logging in, I can see a city on the horizon, but it still seems far away.... Starting to think to myself, was this worth the money, I mean I paid for it and still to this day, no access granted to me to log in...... The natives are getting restless..... time to find some water to possibly setting by

[Max Norris]

[Pupik]

^ You're not really playing by yourself, unless you've set your region to private. You can play with other people in the region (up to 16). And it actually working really well from what I tried.

Sandbox mode isn't fun. It ruins the whole point of the game; build your city starting from dirt roads. It's not fun to start with a million and buy everything from the start.

I just spent hours in the game getting to 140k citizens in stable environment, developing the city mainly on my earnings from the trade port like I was living on a welfare check that comes every hour :) Selling processors on the global market. Importing the materials to build them for about 50k (can't remember for sure) and selling them for almost the double, if not more. Next gonna to save up a million and build a great work area by my city to get some extra work force.

City starting to look nice:

[HawkMan]

while I think the game should have had an offline mode, I like the online mode and eel it's the best way to play this kind of game, once the servers go up and I get people to join my area :)

and besides, they started the road to this back in SC4.

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City starting to look nice:

I do have to say that those shots do look awesome. Great work!

[Sandor]

Is it just me or are cities very small in this game?