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So...the new Sim City is a Disaster (Update Post 87)
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2013-03-07 19:37:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
https://twitter.com/search?q=SimCity&src=tren

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57573053-1/simcity-launch-a-complete-disaster/

I saw this coming when I gave up on the Beta when it was going to take 6 hours to download....after waiting 2 hours already.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Stegas Tyrano
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-03-07 19:55:42 UTC
EA

Herping your derp since 19Potato - [url=https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2403364][Proposal] - Ingame Visual Adverts[/url]
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#3 - 2013-03-07 19:58:26 UTC
Stegas Tyrano wrote:
EA


it's in the game!
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2013-03-07 20:03:07 UTC
Simcity was all downhill after the original.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#5 - 2013-03-07 20:52:08 UTC
EA Update

This has all been Trending for over 50 hours on Twitter.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#6 - 2013-03-07 20:52:38 UTC
Yet another classic franchise destroyed by EA's incompetence and greed. Sad


Good thing there is plenty of good mods for SC4.

-k8

My Fanclub
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#7 - 2013-03-07 20:55:19 UTC
Commissar Kate wrote:
Yet another classic franchise destroyed by EA's incompetence and greed. Sad


Good thing there is plenty of good mods for SC4.



By their responses it is almost as if this is supposed to be a part of the game experience.

They just really are not acknowledging a problem at all.

Really scary tbh.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Kurfin
Kippers and Jam Developments
#8 - 2013-03-07 20:56:09 UTC
I'm surprised that many people given EA's reputation actually bought it? It had clusterf*ck written all over it.

I know it's a long awaited sequel to a much loved series of games, but when have EA ever successfully pulled that off?
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#9 - 2013-03-07 20:57:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Kurfin wrote:
It had clusterf*ck written all over it.




I earlier stated that I saw this coming during the Beta, but I REALLY saw it coming a few YEARS before that when they announced this release method.

edit: This belongs somewhere beyond incompetence.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Riall
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-03-07 21:00:08 UTC
I'm sure they hope that this is opening week nonsense that will clear up like when Diablo III launched.

Except EA is no Blizzard. EA is the reason I've not touched Mass Effect 3.

"Buy PLEX, don't be a space butt"

Keepin' it... me.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2013-03-07 21:06:47 UTC
Yeah, it's kinda depresing watching one of your favorite games die to greed and paranoia (about pirating...which is why they chose this distribution method anyway).

Thank YOU, CCP, for NOT doing this.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#12 - 2013-03-07 21:07:50 UTC
All those issues with the new Sim City have an easy solution... well, not just one, but six easy solutions.
Kurfin
Kippers and Jam Developments
#13 - 2013-03-07 21:08:44 UTC
I can't help feel DRM will turn out to be counter productive if people who pirated the game have an easier time playing the game than those who bought itWhat?
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#14 - 2013-03-07 21:13:05 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
All those issues with the new Sim City have an easy solution... well, not just one, but six easy solutions.


I guess they are solutions from the standpoint of not giving the SimCity developers any money ever again.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#15 - 2013-03-07 21:26:03 UTC
I can only see this ending with a bunch of hearty back-slaps and a CEO dismissal with a 124 M Dollar Golden Parachute.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#16 - 2013-03-07 21:28:11 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
All those issues with the new Sim City have an easy solution... well, not just one, but six easy solutions.


I guess they are solutions from the standpoint of not giving the SimCity developers any money ever again.


And playing/paying city sim games that actually work.
Dessau
The Scope
#17 - 2013-03-07 21:55:44 UTC
Well, as a petty spectator it always pleases me to see EA raked over the coals. With the download version now yanked from Amazon [not before earning a heavily meta'd 1/5 customer rating] I'm wondering how they will top themselves next.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#18 - 2013-03-07 23:03:38 UTC
Best review of Sim City 5 : http://www.jonathancresswell.co.uk/2013/03/review-simcity/

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Stegas Tyrano
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2013-03-07 23:35:55 UTC
EA are so bad, atheists are going to church to pray for their destruction...

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#20 - 2013-03-07 23:39:03 UTC
I remember when I bought Beasts & Bumpkins, brand new in the store and the EA label on the box was a mark of good quality.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.

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