jasongeorge1975

I'm like most people here. I've been a die-hard SimCity fan going all the way back to the SuperNES version. Heck, SC2000 was the game that made me ma PC gamer. I played SC3000, and I absolutely salivated when the fourth installment came out. With Rush Hour, I felt like the franchise had culimated into something special. I've played SC4 off and on for years now. Just installed it a week ago and started a new super-large region. Getting into the modding thing and all that. My point here is... I'm sorely disappointed with the two follow ups to SC4. Can we really count Societies? I think even then I could see the writing on the wall, the direction the franchise was going in. Seems like ever since Will Wright stepped away, things just slowly started to go downhill. I get that the gaming companies want to make money. They need to make money to stay afloat in a competitive world. But I'm getting so tired of everything being about the money. It seems like the very soul of the industry has gotten sucked out and rebranded as something decidedly... unpleasant. I waited for years to get a PC with decent specs. All so I could play the games that I wanted without so many hitches and stutters. But now, with all of this DRM, anti-piracy stuff, it's like the manufacturers want to continue to punish their customers for the sins of a few. It's not just games. It's penetrated every aspect of the software market. I sigh a heavy sigh now. I know for a fact that I will not buy the new Sim... whatever this game is. It's not SimCity. It's not even close. I have never in my life seen such a bad reception to a game. Normally I don't put a lot of faith into detractors, but when I see it everywhere, and the stories are consistently the same... Not to mention the fact that EA decided to B.S. it's customers to the degree that they did? I hate to say this, but I think I might be putting up my gaming hat. I don't have the time for games that I used to have. But even worse, I've become so disillusioned by what the gaming companies are doing, I'm just starting to think that it's no longer worth my time. Thanks EA. Thanks for ruining one of the best games of all time. And thanks for turning me off to something that was once so wonderful. I'll play my SC4 for awhile. Till my computer sputters and dies. Then I guess I'll find a better hobby