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I voted for no because I didnt buy it and still have no intention of getting it, what a load of dross. I am playing a brilliant game that came along just after I cancelled my Simcity preorder called Kerbal Space Program and so far I have racked up 120 hours of really great fun play time for a price of only £18 and its still in alpha stage so its going to get more added to it over time. The KSP devs are good devs, they are honest and their game is practically bug free already unlike SImcity - a game done by a much larger developer with far greater resources and arguably one with far less substance. Makes you wonder doesnt it? I will never buy a constant online DRM game and I will never probably buy an EA game - they are load of moneygrabbing crooks.

Seriously you want to give this Simcity game up and try Kerbal Space Program instead. The best £18 I have ever spent in my life - its so much fun!

No unless they removed the requirement for the constant online connection which is not, in itself, related to mutiplayer play. But they would also have to drastically improve the city plot size and also, from the sound of it, the whole traffic AI system, before it became a game worth buying for me. And even then I wouldnt pay the price asked for by Origin because I think its extortionate.

Its already a flop, almost certainly it is not reaching anywhere near the expected sales. They have shot themselves in the foot with this whole thing. The great thing is that this has opened a lot of people's eyes to the whole constant online DRM thing - I think this will prove to be good for PC games in the long run. Of course whether EA, Maxis and Simcity as a series will survive this atrocity, only time will tell. I do hope we havent seen the end of Simcity.

Removal of features after the game has been sold is a very good reason for justifying getting a full refund. Of course anyone who bought it from Amazon will probably have got their moeny back already....the other outlets though, well this is a very good argument to cite if they prove difficult.

Yes trust is rapidly going out of the window regarding this EA/Maxis outfit. If ever there was perfect evidence that Maxis are now just another branch off the EA ragweed...

This is getting just stupid really. Maxis/Ea should just be flaming honest and nice to their fans for once and remove the DRM, provide a load of free content and some very good patches (increasing plot size for one) and do that pretty much immediately or at the very least issue a formal statement of the intent to do it. Then people might actually buy the game and people who have bought the game might actually begin to play it. This has to be one of the worst major game release day cock ups I have ever seen and Ive seen some bad ones. If they dont do something very constructive immediately this game will be in the bargain basement pile faster than you can say llama speed. I, like many people I presume, have almost given up on the Simcity game but I stay in touch with developments at the moment in case anything changes to actually make me feel like buying it. But so far nothing has and I will eventually give up on it altogether. The really stupid thing is the situation is getting worse not better.

The last and only EA game I think I have ever bought was F1 Challenge 99-02 which was a fantastic game - I still think its the best ever F1 racing game you can get and I wish I hadnt sold it on a few years ago. But EA isnt what it once was. I am probably going to have to add them to my growing list of publishers to avoid (along with Ubisoft and Kalypso). Thank god there are still very good publishers like Bethesda, Bohemia Interactive, Amplitude and Frontier Developments. EA are a dinosaur - they are on their way out thank god. Kickstarter will see the end of their like.

Where did you buy it from? Dont just resign yourself to buying a duff game, please send it back for a refund. Especially if you were sensible enough to buy it from Amazon who make it very easy to return things. I hate seeing people who seem to have resigned to having wasted loads of their money on a duff game. SEND IT BACK if its no good. Or at least try to get a credit note.

Cant trust review sites, read the fan forums and Amazon for an unbiased view, also look at the Lets Play videos on Youtube, and basically just be patient wait for a few weeks/couple of months before you make a decision to buy or not. Do that for every game and you wont waste your money / get angry / have the hastle of having to try to get a refund. Has saved me loads of cash that has.

I always think it needs at least a few weeks before you can really see what the game is like. Once we get past all the server issues and people actually start playing the game they paid for we will soon see what the consensus is on it. I will be very surprised if I feel like buying this game over the next year though unless they iron out all the plot size and traffic AI issues and (of course) remove the terrible online DRM.

Seems like the whole site cant take the strain of the Simcity release.

With respect (politeness see) I disagree completely. If we are unhappy we complain and we dont buy. If we dont complain on here where are we to complain? And if we dont complain on here a lot people may come here and think the game is great and buy it. Yes all of this has been said before but the more people who dont buy the game the more it will force EA to change it. And that would be a good thing for all the fans here. Overwhelming critical outcry in the public media can change the world. For godesake it can overthrow dictators! Why then do you think it cannot change a simple computer game? So I say yes complain! Of the mods want to remove the posts let them. But keep complaining! EA do read this site. Eventually they will get the message when the revenue from the sales is well down. And then, just like Ubisoft did with Silent Hunter 5, they will remove the forced online DRM. And then they will also change the tile sizes. And then we buy the game and everyone is happy. If a few months of complaining can acheive this that isnt much to put up with is it? And if you dont want to read the posts dont read them. Simples.

God that was priceless! Lovely to see EA employees slagging off their employers on public media! Havent had such a laugh in a long time. And it was a very well written critique of the whole mess, even though it pretty much says what everyone has been saying for months. We all knew it was coming! I love those slogans though that EA has around their site - BE BOLD - lol! CUSTOMERS FIRST - fofl! I didnt know about those. If EA really has these things blazened all over the place and are completely disregarding them, what does that say about their whole outfit! What a joke. I agree with the poster above - fiorst thing I thought of when I read about them was the book 1994! I am surprised they dont have banners of the directors everywhere as well with slogans beneath them like 'careless talk costs lives!'. Makes you realise above everything else just how despondant their employees must be. Certainly morale doesnt sound high. What EA should do above everything though is find this bloke ... and make him a director! Guts like that doesnt come along very often and he sounds like he is probably one of the only employees with any sense. He obviously has scruples. I wonder if its Ocean Quigley himself ?

It's certainly one of the biggest factors in putting me off buying the new game. I wasnt keen to begin with due to all the obvious concens, then I got a bit caught up with the hype and expectations and preordered, then I thought better of it and cancelled it. And now I am .. meh! No way. Constant online DRM = no sale for me. The server issues seen here have only strengthened my resolve never to buy a constant connection game. Yes we very rarely see a new Simcity game come out and that was what caught me up the most plus the developers dedication. But recently we have seen some terrible remakes Civ 5, Simcity, XCOM - its as if nobody can actually design decent games anymore. Its as if all these developers are just following the numbers and expecting to create a fantastic game Better graphics and fancy blur - check DRM - check Microsales - check Frenetic action - check Very difficult to get anywhere without buying addons - check Notional multiplayer provision - check Back hander to the review mags - check Games used to be about passion for quality and varied gameplay above anything else, not any more though. Thank god we have some developers who are actually still producing brilliant games, but EA definitely isnt one of them.