detonate_uk

Is it possible for someone to summarise what's come before, I'm late to this thread, but felt compelled to comment... damned lemming syndrome! EA = shareholder = profit. Games are a means to an end, and as a punter, we're only marginally figured in the end result - the franchise sells, so now it's a question of getting it out to the masses, which is why SC is going to become more like The Sims. Because it sells bucketloads with relatively little tweaking from the initial idea, rehashing - sorry, I mean expansion packs - the game continues to sell over and over. Personally, I've never understood the attraction with it. So, SCS = The Sims meets City Life & Second life. A lesson in reality - you're a resistance group, fighting the corporate machine. Take any other example in life, say, Star Trek, if you must, and see that despite some influence, the end result is that any product has to appeal to the masses, not the minority. So, we're screwed, basically. Incidentally, has anyone mentioned the demo scene as potential source for SC alternatives? Breakpoint demo scene convention because, being realistic, this seems the only real place where what people are asking for is likely to emerge, not through EA or their partners any more. Since we don't know the design brief nor the design submitted by Tilted Mill, coupled to what we already know, it's not going to bode well for the future. As others have stated, it's going to be Sim City Lite. Very Lite.