SimCity 5

[iLLosophy]

Re: SimCity 5

Some fun with a new city tonight. A lot of these look especially fuzzy because I probably need to turn down the tilt-shift a tad

took me a while too, add parks that have the 3 simoleons symbol next to em, and watch the sky scrappers rise very quickly

heres a city i built in sandbox mode, i just wanted to see the potential look of a city when i finished one on normal

Very nice work people. Keep posting images!

[mestevo]

C captures an image and V captures video.

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[iLLosophy]

Re: SimCity 5

mestevo,

In your 4th picture, did you create that rail bridge (I think it's a rail bridge, the sun's in my screen at the moment), or was that already set by the region?

[mestevo]

Whose defending this strategy? I don't see anyone defending it except for EA, and even they aren't doing that much defending it right now.

I think you could reasonably say from my posts I'm defending the strategy. Most of my defense of the game is geared toward people ego don't understand what they're bashing though.

They'll get through this, the real test will be balance and other fixes once they're beyond the server overloading. Traffic and some other things could use a lot of work.

My question would be who said they'd have a flawless launch? Once they're past this the 7-9 treated reviews will be well earned, it's a hell of a game, a lot of the things I always wanted in a SimCity.

... Now let me load my city up and avoid the cops in the next Need For Speed... Or work my way though law enforcement or organized crime in a GTA clone... Or I suppose the next Sims.

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[mestevo]

mestevo,

In your 4th picture, did you create that rail bridge (I think it's a rail bridge, the sun's in my screen at the moment), or was that already set by the region?

That bridge is coming in from outside the city boundary, was already there.

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[kingkilla56]

Re: SimCity 5

My question would be who said they'd have a flawless launch?

Lol really?

[gerg1234]

Re: SimCity 5

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/simcity-launch-complete-disaster-201105322.html

More negative press....

Man am I glad I decided to wait a month or so. I'm still really tempted, but this is helping me stay away.

That and a friend of mine has challenged me to a Civ IV game.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: SimCity 5

The most infuriating thing about all this to me is the fact that they have a list of servers as you launch the game, some say "available", some say "busy". I choose the one that says "available", go through the whole launch process, and when the game actually loads, I get the "SimCity Servers are Unavailable" message.

If they'd just fix THAT damn screen so we're not fooled into thinking we're trying to get on a good server, that'd be one hell of a step in the right direction.

BTW, my Origin name is TJdaSportsGuy. Send me some friend invites. It's getting lonely playing all by myself in my region.

[Jistic]

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[Cusefan]

I am very pleased that the mainstream media has picked this story up, hopefully we get some free DLC out of this.

[gerg1234]

Re: SimCity 5

I am very pleased that the mainstream media has picked this story up, hopefully we get some free DLC out of this.

I'm not going to hold my breath...I mean, this is EA. We should be happy just to give them our money.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: SimCity 5

So now, NONE of the servers seem to be working. All are showing as "Busy". Awesome.

Meanwhile, someone on the official SimCity forums posted a comprehensive list of all the bad press EA is getting over this.

FOX NEWS: 'SimCity' launch proves disastrous

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/08/new-imcity-launch-proves-disastrous/

NEW YORK TIMES: A Game That Can’t Be Played: Is It Still a Game?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/ar...?smid=pl-share

FORBES: The 'SimCity' Effect: We Need An Industry-Wide Return Policy For Defective And Unplayable Games
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasoneva...layable-games/

WALL STREET JOURNAL: New SimCity a Failure to Launch
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/...ure-to-launch/

PCMAG: An Open Letter to EA on SimCity: You Could Have Prevented This

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416387,00.asp

WIRED: SimCity Blackout Is Just One More DRM Disaster

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/03/simcity-outage/

YAHOO: SimCity launch a complete disaster

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/simcity-launch-complete-disaster-201105322.html

Gamespot (Maxis Internal Memo Leaks)

http://www.gamespot.com/news/maxis-internal-simcity-memo-leaks-6405050

PCMAG: An Open Letter to EA on SimCity: You Could Have Prevented This

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416387,00.asp

WIRED: SimCity Blackout Is Just One More DRM Disaster

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/03/simcity-outage/

ABC News: EA Scrambles to Fix 'SimCity' Server Congestion

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ea-scrambles-fix-...r-congestion/story?id=18677568

BBC: Amazon suspends sales of SimCity video game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21712910

LA Times: ‘SimCity’: Server failures lock out players
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/games...k-out-players/

TechCrunch: We Built This SimCity On A Shaky Foundation Of DRM
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/07/we-...dation-of-drm/

Mashable: EA Scrambles to Fix 'SimCity' Server Congestion
http://mashable.com/2013/03/07/simcity-server-troubles/

RPS: Impressions
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...sions-simcity/

[NikeBlitz]

Re: SimCity 5

Well, this will not help the EA/PC relationship.

[MeanMrMustard]

I'm not going to hold my breath...I mean, this is EA. We should be happy just to give them our money.

Maybe next time we can just PayPal it to them. Cut out the middleman and all these pesky software downloads.

[rspencer86]

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EA deserves every bit of the roasting they are getting. This is what happens when you ignore your customers and become obsessed to the level of paranoia about DRM/piracy.