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[JFman00 1]

I haven't posted on this forum since 2007, but I had been playing SC4 since it came out. Worked on an airport project, read and wrote CJs, got heavily involved with the Urbs Urbis project... So when I learned about SimCity (2013) I was one of the many ecstatic people out there. Mechanics-wise, it took so much that we had considered must-haves (true region play, curved roads, expandable facilities) I was sure it was exactly what we had all be hoping for.

 

What I never considered was that EA/Maxis would kill what made ST and the SC community in general so vibrant and interesting. EA/Maxis went from saying this: “We know the reason why people are still playing SimCity 4 ten years later is because the modding community has kept it alive. GlassBox is built to be moddable, but beyond that we haven’t announced anything.” "We're very cognizant of that -- we're not idiots."To saying this: "This SimCity architecture is much more like the Sims. In the previous SimCities it was difficult to add any additional content. We built this SimCity to be 'composable', which is the best way to describe it. It puts us in a position to make more stuff for the game and to build more content. So we'll see what people want and ask for in particular and we'll make more content."

 

What does that really mean for the longevity of the SC community if everyone is 100% reliant on EA/Maxis for more content? Seems at the very least like the days of gorgeous/fascinating CJs are very much over.

[uebs 11]

The Sims has use generated content...

 

Small map sizes and the inability to terraform is a real joy kill for creating CJ's