Wishing I hadn't pre-ordered SC2013 - How about you?

[NCGAIO 562]

Public service to those who repented of having pre-ordered your purchase.

AS CANCEL PRE-ORDER

Go to http://www.ea.com/profile and log in, click on the order and hit the "customer support" link. Then click "contact us" which is located on the right side of the page.

Then select the Product, Category, and Platform. If wanted to vent to someone chose "Call Me" option

SOURCE: Just called EA and cancelled my preorder

[Superbacon 380]

Didn't. Won't.

[Urban Cartographer 601]

I have not pre-ordered the game and I will not pre-order the game. In fact, I discourage people from pre-ordering this game until there is a 100% offline single player mode.

[Mark Waybill 242]

I have the code to verify the game but I didn't keep the email with it, but when I log in it said I didn't have any orders...?

[7238320 77]

@Mark Waybill - What about a tab that shows pending orders? That where mine was.

(I edited the poll to add a couple more choices)

If I was sitting on the fence at all about the pre-order, today's Maxis Community Interview definitely shoved me off the edge. I don't know what community they are listening to, but it sure doesn't seem it's us!

I am jumping through the hoops to try and get this cancelled. I wasn't given the phone call option like NCGAIO - had to settle for email contact instead. I think I can cancel through Paypal too?

[NCGAIO 562]

I am jumping through the hoops to try and get this cancelled. I wasn't given the phone call option like NCGAIO - had to settle for email contact instead. I think I can cancel through Paypal too?

Sign in to your account page in English (USA).

Further information on

ORIGIN FAQ PREORDER

Attention !!

For those who made ​​the reservation outside the United States and Canada read the title of

Pre-Order Terms:

When will I be charged for the purchase?

In several countries you will be charged before the release date so do not wait until then if you intend to cancel!

Read the title What is pre-loading?

  Edited July 29, 2012 by NCGAIO  

[Mark Waybill 242]

I just emailed them to cancel my preorder after much technical issues with their site. Hopefully now I will have 100 AUD to donate to an independent project.

[Urban Cartographer 601]

I just emailed them to cancel my preorder after much technical issues with their site. Hopefully now I will have 100 AUD to donate to an independent project.

You have made a very wise decision, Mark Waybill. If a person pre-orders this game, then the person should not complain about the many faults of the game. By not pre-ordering the game, the person knows that there will be many faults to the game.

[Darth Hudig 10]

I was about to pre-order, until I saw several screenshots, that, while beautiful, alluded to a Societies - like gameplay that I am not interested in. I waited, allowing the news to progress, but the news and images on the gameplay have not been encouraging and do not align with my interests as a player.

[SteveMSim 275]

I won't preorder the game. It looks that the game is being designed as EA sees to make as big a profit in a short time as it can. They don't care much about veteran gamers' input; all they care is the bottom line in the short term.

[Markalian2 1]

*Stranger from Bastion voice* Alright kid, settle down, let me tell ya a story, one about the aftershock of the Mass Effect 3 debacle. It was some time ago, during the transition into the forced online play era. Remember that? No? Okay then. Maxis was releasing a new game called.. What do you mean what's Maxis? Anyway, the SimCity reboot what about to come out. Me and many many others rallied up to protest against the game's lack of features. The reboot, you see, rebooted everything, and the game sucked. We made threads about disappointment and canceling our preorders. The the game came out. Not a single person in the Simtropolis community bought the game. Total game sales were less than 200k, and Maxis was shut down. Oh, how we laughed. It was for the better, because EA was then sued into the ground by the government due to it's data collection. I still play SC4. It's DRM-free. I know, a novel concept to you. Want to play it?

  Edited August 3, 2012 by Markalian2  

[MINIggy03 227]

This community does not make up the majority of buyers, it will not bomb and it will sell far more than 200,000. The millions that have played SimCity for the past several decades will not care about bubbled cities and lack of terraforming. Believe it or not, the game is still HIGHLY anticipated outside of Simtropolis.com

  Edited August 3, 2012 by MINIggy03  

[cirugo 1,889]

This community does not make up the majority of buyers, it will not bomb and it will sell far more than 200,000. The millions that have played SimCity for the past several decades will not care about bubbled cities and lack of terraforming. Believe it or not, the game is still HIGHLY anticipated outside of Simtropolis.com

Really? where?

I've been following this extremely closely and just about every forum or blog or article that I've seen is getting negative reactions about the same things I'm seeing here.

[spiritbw 111]

the always online and cloud system kinda sealed it for me and I was glad I didn't pre-order andx probably won't get it at all save if it shows up at Gog.com

[Selphy 69]

This community does not make up the majority of buyers, it will not bomb and it will sell far more than 200,000. The millions that have played SimCity for the past several decades will not care about bubbled cities and lack of terraforming. Believe it or not, the game is still HIGHLY anticipated outside of Simtropolis.com

Really? where?

I've been following this extremely closely and just about every forum or blog or article that I've seen is getting negative reactions about the same things I'm seeing here.

I agree with MINIggy03. Just because you frequent some blogs and forums, that doesn't mean that no one is buying the game. The number of people on the forums and blogs hardly make a dent in the HUGE pool of consumers that exist outside these places. There are probably hundreds of thousands of people who don't browse forums as much as we do but would still buy the game when it released.

Think about the whole Mass Effect 3 debacle and then consider that the game sold over 2 million copies not including digital sales. How many of that pool of millions of people do you think went on the web and complained? We, as gamers, frequent these sites because we are interested. But that isn't to say there aren't people outside of these boards, blogs, and forums that aren't interested, that won't window shop, that won't buy because of word of mouth, that won't impulsively buy.

Yes, on these forums, it sounds bad for SC. The vast majority of people aren't happy with the way things are proceeding. But consider the number of posters who are actually here posting their displeasure. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just about 50 people.

My point is, your scope of unhappy fans is just a couple forums and blogs and that doesn't encompass the larger majority of people, who we don't interact with or even see post about the game, who would buy it.

[cirugo 1,889]

This community does not make up the majority of buyers, it will not bomb and it will sell far more than 200,000. The millions that have played SimCity for the past several decades will not care about bubbled cities and lack of terraforming. Believe it or not, the game is still HIGHLY anticipated outside of Simtropolis.com

Really? where?

I've been following this extremely closely and just about every forum or blog or article that I've seen is getting negative reactions about the same things I'm seeing here.

I agree with MINIggy03. Just because you frequent some blogs and forums, that doesn't mean that no one is buying the game. The number of people on the forums and blogs hardly make a dent in the HUGE pool of consumers that exist outside these places. There are probably hundreds of thousands of people who don't browse forums as much as we do but would still buy the game when it released.

Think about the whole Mass Effect 3 debacle and then consider that the game sold over 2 million copies not including digital sales. How many of that pool of millions of people do you think went on the web and complained? We, as gamers, frequent these sites because we are interested. But that isn't to say there aren't people outside of these boards, blogs, and forums that aren't interested, that won't window shop, that won't buy because of word of mouth, that won't impulsively buy.

Yes, on these forums, it sounds bad for SC. The vast majority of people aren't happy with the way things are proceeding. But consider the number of posters who are actually here posting their displeasure. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just about 50 people.

My point is, your scope of unhappy fans is just a couple forums and blogs and that doesn't encompass the larger majority of people, who we don't interact with or even see post about the game, who would buy it.

That may well be but there is no evidence to back up the assertion that there is huge anticipation for it. The only evidence we have is the reaction we are seeing everywhere there is news or mention of it. We have no access to the amount of pre-orders so we can't speculate on that. What I'm saying is that we MAY just be an angry minority but there isn't any evidence to indicate anything else either.

[7238320 77]

Please folks.. a gentle reminder ...

This topic is about pre-ordering SimCity( 2013), whether you did or not, and how you are feeling about the action / inaction you took, and /or what action / thoughts you have/ had.

.. oh and voting in the poll if you wish.

[macb6497 6]

EA: It's no point in designing something for the people if it isn't 80% of what people want.

If it's for the company alone, that's something else. But, people will be playing this, not companies.

[JohnnyBNL 2]

I was very happy when it was announced! Pre-ordered it at a local game retailer, to bad is so rubbish.. So I canceled my pre-order.

[lew1984 231]

Never Pre-order games... If there is a game comming out that I like I will watch it until its released... Then if Im still crazy wanting it Ill buy it which is what I did with Mass Effect 3 (shame about ending though!). Otherwise Ill wait till word of mouth and if generally people love it ill buy.

If I can be really patient ill wait untill a game has been out for a while espcially a PS3 game as they cost £40.00+ in UK on release, if I can wait... can pick them up for £15.00 lol.

[§haÅ--Ñ€ §hÅŽo 370]

I cancelled my pre-order, and I'm glad I did.

[snick25 384]

Well I preordered sim city and is extremely fun I built a city but a guy polluted my city. Preorder costs $79.99 for special edition. And for deluxe is $59.99.

I don't mean to sound rude but what the heck are you talking about? It sounds like you're saying you have the game, which obviously isn't true.

[Essex 322]

On the whole "new news" we've had on Simcity, I still haven't changed my mind, it all looks a bit stale already, it seems that there isn't that much to show anymore.

The "discounts" on pre orders seems very desperate, why discount pre order prices? This means you're litterally downplaying your own product that hasn't even been released yet... and that could mean that EA... IS actually secretly listening to the community.

  Edited September 13, 2012 by CaptCity  
Language... Read the rules.

[bwfcnut 5]

As I mentioned in the sticky I'm probably going to pre-order it, since there's no harm and I won't be billed until release. The £40 voucher is pretty sweet, a free game or two, and I actually think the game looks promising from the footage. However, that said, if at release it doesn't meet my expectations or doesn't have a capable offline mode I'll chase a refund. Thankfully where I am, the UK, legally companies (even Steam) are obligated to issue a no reasons needed refund within 7 days of requesting one.

[Zombeast 69]

On the whole "new news" we've had on Simcity, I still haven't changed my mind, it all looks a bit stale already, it seems that there isn't that much to show anymore.

The "discounts" on pre orders seems very desperate, why discount pre order prices? This means you're litterally downplaying your own product that hasn't even been released yet... and that could mean that EA... IS actually secretly listening to the community.

There isn't anything left to show? Seriously? You really think they've shown off the entire game? Everyone's who played the demo said so many items were unavailable for use. Some demo reviews even revealed features none of us knew. How many games were completely revealed 5 months out of the game release? We haven't even seen final graphics.

Everything gets discounted at or pre-release these days. Even some console games are $10 off at release and the entire week of sometimes. For instance I went two buy to new release albums yesterday and both we're being sold for $8.00 the week of release. Does that mean the album isn't good? Of course not they could be albums of the year, they just want to move units. Every way they can combat piracy and still make money they will do.

[thebeasle 20]

I never pre-ordered and I won't. If the game turns out to be good, I'll buy it. But I doubt that will happen.

I'm speculating that EA will cut out modders with their always online game. They will probably force users to buy EA custom items from EA at the EA sims store. I could be wrong, but we are talking about EA here. As to those saying that casual gamers outnumber SimTropolis and hard core fans, they don't. Past games that went after casuals and failed: SimCity Societies and Microsoft Flight just to name a couple.

I want this game to be good but I just don't see it happening.

[herob4u 34]

I'm not even gonna buy it if it was the ONLY game to be released in the entire year...

It's...oh man I can't believe I'll say this but.....HORRIBLE and LAME. Game looks so Casual and boring

Didn't Pre-order, won't Pre-order, and I'm not on drugs to buy this thing v_v

[alfanmuqafi23 37]

nope i from indonesia that's all is too expensive

this is the kurs

1,00$=9000Rp

look that's all expensive alright ???

[Jokurr 175]

I never pre-ordered and I won't. If the game turns out to be good, I'll buy it. But I doubt that will happen.

I'm speculating that EA will cut out modders with their always online game. They will probably force users to buy EA custom items from EA at the EA sims store. I could be wrong, but we are talking about EA here. As to those saying that casual gamers outnumber SimTropolis and hard core fans, they don't. Past games that went after casuals and failed: SimCity Societies and Microsoft Flight just to name a couple.

I want this game to be good but I just don't see it happening.

Maxis already stated that they plan to support mods, just not at launch. Though it remains to be seen if modders will have as much freedom as they did with SC4.

[NCGAIO 562]

As I mentioned in the sticky I'm probably going to pre-order it, since there's no harm and I won't be billed until release. ....

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