SimCity free trial

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

People can now download a free trial here: http://www.simcity.com/free-trial

[SteveMSim 275]

So, the new Sim City is selling so badly that EA Games has resorted to issuing a free trial in order to entice new customers.

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

So, the new Sim City is selling so badly that EA Games has resorted to issuing a free trial in order to entice new customers.

 

That seems to be the case.  "See how buggy it is, free of charge!"

[Compdude787 916]

They finally made a trial version available. I'm debating whether I should download it just to see how bad it is. Then I should load up my old SC4 region that I had from several years ago and play it without mods to see which is better. I have a feeling that even vanilla SC4 will be better than SC13.

[DavidB_ 83]

Was grinning gleefully when I saw this... but then I noticed, PC only! Not that it would work so well on my main Mac, mind. I'm sticking to the SC4 Aspyr rerelease and NAM 32.1, thank you very much

[stormgear 10]

They finally made the beta open to the public? Good, more testers then.

[CapTon 592]

So, the new Sim City is selling so badly that EA Games has resorted to issuing a free trial in order to entice new customers.

Actually, due to the number of mods that have altered the game in numerous ways that have been released recently, SimCity sales have gone up.

[Xenocity 343]

So, the new Sim City is selling so badly that EA Games has resorted to issuing a free trial in order to entice new customers.

This is not the first game in the series to have a demo released.

 

Most of the Simcity games have had demos released, including Simcity 3000 (the best selling game).

According to the last official numbers Simcity 2013 is the second best selling game in the franchise behind Simcity 3000.

Right now Simcity 2013 is between 3M and 4M worldwide.

 

They finally made a trial version available. I'm debating whether I should download it just to see how bad it is. Then I should load up my old SC4 region that I had from several years ago and play it without mods to see which is better. I have a feeling that even vanilla SC4 will be better than SC13.

It hasn't been geninuely bad since update 5, it became decent around Update 7, Update 10 + modding made it good.

 

Vanilla Simcity 4 (without expansion pack) is worse than Simcity 2013 (standalone)

Simcity 4 Deluxe (without mods and NAM) is still worse than Simcity 2013 Plus (without mods)

 

Simcity 4 needs NAM to make it good (I am currently without NAM and am kindly reminded why I quite playing SImciy 4 back in the day!

 

I am currently running both in my late 2011 Macbook Pro in OSX.

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

It hasn't been geninuely bad since update 5, it became decent around Update 7, Update 10 + modding made it good.

 

 

This.  It's become normal to treat this game as if it was still the wreck they released, but there have indeed been improvements.  When I do talk to friends about the game I do point out that EA has done some fixing since release and while there are still issues the game does work.

[Herdervriend 46]

Nothing is wrong with this game. You only do miss a few small things. But that you do with EACH game EA released since 2010.

[Xenocity 343]

 

It hasn't been geninuely bad since update 5, it became decent around Update 7, Update 10 + modding made it good.

 

 

This.  It's become normal to treat this game as if it was still the wreck they released, but there have indeed been improvements.  When I do talk to friends about the game I do point out that EA has done some fixing since release and while there are still issues the game does work.

 

Well to be fair once a something or someone gets branded, it is hard to undo it.

 

Nothing is wrong with this game. You only do miss a few small things. But that you do with EACH game EA released since 2010.

That's not just EA.

[FortyFiveRav 1]

People can now download a free trial here: http://www.simcity.com/free-trial

It always says "Download Error" when I download it.

[watchhead11 0]

I actually finally bought the game while trying out the four hour trail. Had a lot of fun with it.

[CapTon 592]

I actually finally bought the game while trying out the four hour trail. Had a lot of fun with it.

Glad to hear that hope you enjoy the game! Be sure to download some mods as well to enhance your experience.

[watchhead11 0]

I actually finally bought the game while trying out the four hour trail. Had a lot of fun with it.

Glad to hear that hope you enjoy the game! Be sure to download some mods as well to enhance your experience.

I sure will! Thanks.