Gamespot Review Just Posted......5/10!

[maddogmark25 58]

http://www.gamespot.com/simcity/reviews/simcity-review-6405012/

 

Unbelievable...never thought a big game site (that has been advertising SC nonstop) would bomb the game like that. But its glorious!

[SirChick 184]

5 is the best review so far i think...polygon just dropped from 9.5 to 8 now its a 4.

[cirugo 1,889]

And several of the other sites that were so quick out of the gate with their glowing reviews have steadily dropped the scores.

[brynhyfryd 222]

From IGN.  

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Microsoft, Sony, and All Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

 

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/simcity-burning-a-warning-to-microsoft-sony-and-all-publishers-on-the-dangers-of-always-online-drm

[Charizard 284]

Omg. I think I'm about to cry tears of joy. Finally EA gets what it deserves. Bravo gamespot bravo! Wow haha..

[cirugo 1,889]

From IGN.  

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Microsoft, Sony, and All Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

 

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/simcity-burning-a-warning-to-microsoft-sony-and-all-publishers-on-the-dangers-of-always-online-drm

Dan Stapleton spent plenty of time arguing with people about how always-online wasn't a big deal.  This is a bit disingenous coming from him now.

[Urban Cartographer 601]

EA, you have killed the golden goose.  You should regret your actions.  EA, you deserve all those very poor reviews, even from the professionals.

[Ohadi195 30]

This is pathetic! That's the result of being led by the love for money instead of by love for the franchise

[pkderek 51]

We actually should be thanking EA. They've effectively killed the overgrowing presence of what is now known as DRM.

[ggsimmonds 14]

EA, you have killed the golden goose.  You should regret your actions.  EA, you deserve all those very poor reviews, even from the professionals.

 

Well I am not sure that SimCity fits the definition of a "golden goose" lol.

 

But Kevin at gamespot is one of the few professional reviewers that I trust and that has credibility. Usaully his reviews are on the mark. EA has royally screwed up this title. It may yet develop into a great game, but that appears to be far off from now

[Shadely 63]

I'm truly amazed.  I never thought I'd see the day. Wow.

[SirChick 184]

This is pathetic! That's the result of being led by the love for money instead of by love for the franchise

 

 

I think its been that way since about 2004 or so  

The early isometric games had so much depth now all they care about is lighting effects and how the sun moves accross the sky so "realistically" ...and other stuff that really is not important at all.

[Superbacon 380]

Most of the time I don't trust Gamespot or IGN reviews because I often find that they don't know what they're talking about. And usually play down the bad aspects of bad games and don't go in depth with the good ones. LazyGame Reviews and Angry Joe Reviews usually do a great job at going in-depth with a review. 

 

However I will agree with Gamespot on this one. Their score might even be a touch high. 

[maddogmark25 58]

The only positive out of all of this is that this disaster may have killed off the online-DRM movement for good (hopefully)

 

This is a PR nightmare for EA.

[LillySatou 117]

From IGN.  

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Microsoft, Sony, and All Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

 

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/simcity-burning-a-warning-to-microsoft-sony-and-all-publishers-on-the-dangers-of-always-online-drm

Dan Stapleton spent plenty of time arguing with people about how always-online wasn't a big deal.  This is a bit disingenous coming from him now.

The problems are so glaring after so many botched launches, even the biggest fans of always-online DRM have to face the music now.

[infoman96 27]

They deserve this; they have people such as myself that would've purchased the game even if I could pirate the game (as evident of my four or five copies of SC4 that were all purchased not pirated) but instead they decide to punish all of us who actually purchased this game by having it always online. Plenty of us purchased the game wouldn't have been playing online with our game all the time, so by them making it always online for them (I bet they're playing in private regions such as myself) only increased the amount of servers they need and while drastically under estimating the amount of people who will play the game, they screwed theirselves. I can only imagine how much revenue they got off us for something thats barely playable, but they also missed out on much more revenue from people like two of my friends that said they would buy it after I tell them how it was (hint: their not buying it). So EA, needs to let Maxis do its own thing and only provide the expenses (without poking their greedy fingers in) and this game would've been excellent; Maxis actually has something to worry about when they lose fans, EA doesn't since it has much more games.

[kwetzel345 101]

Finally, A punch EA can't get back up to real easy without caching some breath and having no way of just walking it off. Because the punch was that powerful. It really the case of, "who's the tougher person now". We are,  the consumers,  because we have the strength in numbers, not in the belief of stamina shielding us.

[snick25 384]

Finally. It's about time something lifted the sheepskin from their eyes...

[hudman1984 3]

I knew I should have waited for some months so they could figure out the bugs. All big games like this have issues at the start but i found out that they had 10...10 servers so i pre-order!. For once i would love to see a company over kill on something. IT just goes to show you that EA's all about money. EA's a company, It should be about money for them, but they have for gotten where that money comes from...YOU & ME!!! Screw their ALWAYS ON-LINE PLAY crap! We should want to play online because it offers something more than a single player experience, we shouldn't be forced to. O-Well, They already got my $59.99 plus tax so I have no more say. Hope the servers go back up by April. 

[Wiimeiser 452]

I bet EA would be willing to sell their Simpsons rights to pay for the damages, as they haven't done anything with it for half a decade. Surely I could afford it?

[Essex 322]

This is beyond glorious. GS, you just regained all respect and Kevin has always been one of the more respectable reviewers. EA couldn't BUY (like they did with all the early reviews) GS's credibility because GS knew it would loose all.

[bcnurse247 33]

Is the reason for DRM really due to piracy? I know they like to blame it on piracy. But there must be other ways to curb it besides the always online thing. I suspect that the reason for DRM has more to do with maintaining corporate control of the product/brand, and maximizing profit through additional charges for extra content, time, etc.

 

In effect, players aren't even really buying the game anymore. They're renting it. And of course, they can be evicted at any time. 

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I am happy that honest reviews are coming in. I hope that an offline mode can be offered in a patch or expansion pack.

--Ocram

[cirugo 1,889]

 

From IGN.  

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Microsoft, Sony, and All Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

 

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/simcity-burning-a-warning-to-microsoft-sony-and-all-publishers-on-the-dangers-of-always-online-drm

Dan Stapleton spent plenty of time arguing with people about how always-online wasn't a big deal.  This is a bit disingenous coming from him now.

The problems are so glaring after so many botched launches, even the biggest fans of always-online DRM have to face the music now.

Oh he wasn't a fan of DRM to be sure...but I participated in arguments with him about how it wasn't that big a deal for this game.

[telekinetic 3]

ITs a great game that EA is ruining.  I hope this gives us an offline mode so we can have our own regions not online.

[zorkman 25]

It has always been a myth about piracy & the sales that they are losing, right back to the 1980's. The industry seems to think that every game pirated is a sell lost, when in reality nearly all these people would never buy the game anyway, whether they had any option to do so or not.The only losers are the honest people, who don't pirate anything. Hopefully EA will go bust, but in reality they will carry on ripping off people. Awful company.

[eManiacal 6]

GameSpot actually using a 1-10 scale instead of 7-10 is shocking, I didn't expect as decent of a review as this to come from them. 

[RyanMorgan95 144]

This has made my day.

Did anyone see this in the comments:

 

http://uk.gamespot.com/simcity/reviews/simcity-review-6405012/?hubRefSrc=permalink#lf_comment=61785546

 

[efgrib 45]

that this will kill the simcity franchise maybe too will make you happy too?

[cirugo 1,889]

that this will kill the simcity franchise maybe too will make you happy too?

If this is where the SimCity franchise is headed what difference does it make?