tyholmes

Yes, I was on kind of an angry rant last night. However I stand by my decision not to buy. I'm not buying on principle, because this is not the Simcity we wanted to see. Also I'm not buying because of the content for reasons originally listen ie: small city tile size, no transit, etc. I don't really need to wait for it to come out, to judge it, because I played the Beta. Or should I say, attempted to play the beta, before randomly disconnecting from the servers 3 times before I could finish the tutorial. On top of that, upon attempting to reconnect to the servers, I was unable to click the "grayed out" play button. "Server unavailable" so sorry you can't play the game. I just imagine dropping 80 bucks on a game only to be unable to play it when I want, because of a crap internet connection, or server issues. Next year when they release the exact same game, and call it "Simcity 6" You will have to buy it, because they will stop supporting 5 on their servers, so you HAVE to go out to buy 6, if you want to still play. Also I was joking around about the "traffic issues" comment. It had nothing to do with bugs in the game. I meant that because all your major infrastructure in the game region, (highways, trains etc.) is already built by default. By Maxis. By the time Simcity 6 comes, you won't even have to build cities anymore. They will be built, and you will have to solve problems for online achievements, and more facebook friends or some crap like that. Also, the above was also a joke. Just in case you took that I was being serious.

I for one will not be buying this game. What a disappointment to be waiting for a year to play it. What with the tile size, always online DRM, no local saves and a myriad of other things, it's like EA wants this game to bomb on purpose. Every game and their dog is a glorified facebook game nowadays. No, I do not care to connect to facebook to share my high score at Assassins creed. Another thing that drives me nuts is "in app purchases." "here buy this game for 2 dollars. Now in order to play it, or do anything to advance and make the game fun, you will have to spend 34 dollars to get "in game money" to spend "in game." The BUILT IN fans they have without doing any marketing or anything have been alienated now. Sure they may get a few casual gamers like the tweens or the teens, who've never played simcity before, and whose entire lives are spent online anyway, and they don't know any different. Because this is the world the grew up in. But the real Simcity fans, the ones here and on the xlnation, we're all older! Most here, have probably been playing Simcity, like me, since the 90's, and have been fans from the get go. Now we're all 30 years old, and couldn't care connecting to friends to play. I'll just have my friends over to my house if I want to play Simcity with them. And we'll drink beers, and eat pizza. Sounds like a great afternoon. EA has grossly misjudged their fanbase and the consumers who will buy their game. The ones who have kept Simcity relevant, fresh, new and interesting with mods and tweaks, for a DECADE! while EA did absolutely nothing to grow their brand, I'm sure, will not be spending their money on it. I don't understand. You've got a hardcore built it fanbase to sell to, one that will line up on launch day to give you money. So why shun them completely to appeal to a "broader" audience. This "broader" audience won't still be around after 10 years, like simtropolis will. Good luck EA, you're going to need it. I hope it bombs, just so they see that, their intrusive DRM is a big killer of sales. But hey, instead of building your own transportation network, highways and subways, and watching as it solves your traffic issues, EA has already done it for you. Just connect to their prebuilt highway, and your good! No reason to include mass transit, your city won't be big enough to need it anyway!