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Wow, I think I'm just being a deluded optimist here, along with everyone else, but that game looks pretty sweet. Does anyone remember what happened to Championship Manager when the new guys took over? The developers jumped ship and made Football Manager King... think we have something similar here? Aight, the circumstances are different, but it's similar to say the least. But anyway I think in the face of SCS we're all just being overly optimistic, that blog guy is probably capitalising on that... a pretty game is just that; a pretty game. Here's hoping it amounts to something good though. Please use the Edit button if you would like to include more information but no one has posted after you yet.--hym

Originally posted by: Gman55 The worst case scenario is that SCS bombs and EA releases a "true" SimCity 5.quote>That's the best case scenario.

I hope The Sims 3 is a stripped down format. I can't understand how it works right now. It's far too complex. I'm a casual gamer and have little time to understand what 'Click the left mouse button' could possibly be imploring me to do. If Will Wright really wants to appeal to the casual gamer and attract a bigger fanbase, I suggest he strip The Sims 3 down to the bare bone and allow the computer to do everything. That way we could watch, and it would be much easier; and therefore much more accessible for tards like myself. At the same time I think the computer should decide when I get off my ass to get something to eat, and when I go to take a piss. /mindframe of SCS's new target audience

Just call it Sim City Tycoon and let it follow the fate of all its other namesakes, barring one or two maybe (RCT).

If you guys actually want change, sitting around doing internet-based stuff won't work. The only thing you could really do, aside from direct action campaigning (Which I've never seen anyone except the most hardcore of gamers pull off), is not buy the game. The amount of people that will inevitably relent and go 'Oh well I'll give it a shot' mean that this probably won't happen... it's not a dig at Tilted Mill, it's just saying 'This isn't what I expect of Simcity'. Maybe one day another developer will pick up where they left off and give us a proper urban simulator. Look what happened with Championship Manager when the new guys took over... the old development team jumped ship to another publisher and gave us Football Manager. Football Manager sells by the bucketload, it's old namesake is a complete disaster.

Originally posted by: JanYpe Originally posted by: Sc4jeeks Originally posted by: the olive That is not true, the first SC4 screen shot looked terrible, nothing like the game ened up looking like. I don't know if it will be good or bad, we'll just have to wait.quote> Maxis does typically release screens sooner than most companies, but still, some people on these forums sound like they expect the game to look like GTA4 by the time it's done.quote> Careful there, if you backpedal any faster you might fall down and hit your head. ...Then again.quote> Do you like the screenshots? Because realistically, it's unlikely they're going to get much better than what we've been shown.

I'm getting pretty worried now to be honest, there's already heaps of people going 'Ohhh I'll give it a try; which is exactly what EA would love. So, go ahead I guess, and make the only viable option of protest we all have redundant.

Originally posted by: valhum If the game turns out to be as crappy as it is starting to look, i seriously hope it will BOMB so the nice people over at EA now that they f'ed us over...... but u know, not just bombing because that might mean losing our beloved franchise, more of an outrage by everyone, critics and fans, saying how they ruined it, maybe after that they will feel the need for revindication, u know.quote>Yeah but they'll probably have enough people glorifying them for Spore (Of whom half will be Simcity fans anyway) that it won't matter much

I feel almost the same way. I do have a social life. But, I mean, hell I remember playing Sim city classic when I was a little kid.. and the rush of excitement from heading to the store, buying the new incarnations of sim city, plopping them in my disc drive and becoming absorbed. Ah well, won't be doing that for awhile.

Let's face it, it's awfully nice to see so many people TRYING to be optimistic; but judging by the game's incredibly simplistic nature and cartoonish graphics, and Tilted Mill's (Dire) reputation for making games that don't last over two months without being chucked in the bargain bin, I think it's safe to say Sim city will die with this 'outing', if you even want to call it that. EA will see that this new meshing of the Sims, with a very stripped down version of Sim city, doesn't sell well. People either want the Sims, or they want Sim City. What's so hard to understand about that? Seriously, I don't get how plain, ridiculously, slap-you-in-the-face obvious this is. EA will judge in their infinite wisdom that the franchise just 'doesn't appeal to gamers anymore' and isn't worth continuing. Instead they'll concentrate on the Sims and Spore, which is definately profitable enough to allow them to dispose of Sim City. They've done it before, they'll do it again. Sorry guys. I'm off to give Civilization 4 another spin, right after Medieval II.