Just what it had to do with this.
Maybe your right, but there is DRM all over the place at the moment anyway.
SimCity
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Maybe your right, but there is DRM all over the place at the moment anyway.
Yeah, well, thanks for that.Part of the problem with SimCity is that some of the calculations are done server-side, it's more than just used for DRM.
Oh dear
Oh dear again.
Okay I see what you mean Lambs. Is this what is in store for the PS4?
Online DRM and cloud gaming are well known sources of apprehension among gamers. At least I'm interested if someone who has connections with the industry expresses concern, with regards to the possilbe future of these things. Posting in a thread partly about botched DRM, seems appropriate.
The next gen is designed to usher in cloud gaming and shit like this, yes.
It will get worse, if there's anything I'd love to be wrong about it's this, but I know for a fact there's stuff in the pipeline that'll make this shit seem like value.
I'm actually surprised on this game though, I can't believe people were willing to pay so much for it under those terms. But soon we'll have no choice in the matter.
Well most actual developers are hardcore gamers and no, everyone I know hates where it's going.
The people in charge however, well they would have had it it last gen if they thought they could get away with it.
Steam has done well as a middle-ground, but that allows most games to be played offline and offers great value. Shit like Origin and the stuff Sony, M$ and other publishers are planning will take that model and feck it and us.
The most helpful review:People are well and truly pissed!
http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limit...dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
That rating is quite something!
I don't think I'll ever buy a game that requires me to be online all the time.
EDIT- Well, on reading redlambs posts, who knows?
Is there a chance some niche developers exploit this and offers the opposite of this crap with quality titles?
I fecking DESPISE EA and what they're doing to the games industry
Wow. Don't think I've ever seen a game get slated that badly in ratings beforePeople are well and truly pissed!
http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limit...dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
That rating is quite something!
Polygon has now adjusted their 9.5 to 8 to......4. 
It's amazing.
Every time I think it can't get worse with EA games they actually manage to feck it up even more.
The game itself is quite nice when you can play it, which unfortunately isn't very often.
Every time I think it can't get worse with EA games they actually manage to feck it up even more.
The game itself is quite nice when you can play it, which unfortunately isn't very often.
So far I have to say this year has been the year of the big game feck ups with ACM and SC.
Let's hope it doesn't continue that way.
Let's hope it doesn't continue that way.
What EA games have been completely and horrendously fecked up like this before? Or even close?
Spore was the original DRM bollocked game, but at least that ran. EA Games have always struggled with lack of patches and crap too.
Spore was the original DRM bollocked game, but at least that ran. EA Games have always struggled with lack of patches and crap too.
Well I was more talking about franchises and companies they ruined through rushed releases and watering down gameplay according to what their analysts thought people wanted from games.
Star Wars: The Old Republic was a complete shambles on launch. For the first 2 weeks they even did scheduled maintenance in EU prime time because they refused to do it separate from the NA times. It was also incredibly rushed for release, another 6 months in production and this game could have been great. Massive failure in the end this should have done so much better, A Bioware MMO with the Star Wars IP and one of the biggest budgets in gaming history completely ruined.
The game is dumbed down and watered down to fit in a couple of expansions.
Regarding the bold part, it most certainly can:
It will happen, that's what the next gen is all about, getting everyone signed up ready for it.
Well there's a lot of indie stuff on Steam and there will always be those around, there always has been and always will be. However when we do go full cloud, we'll still be stuck with having to go full publisher servers to get them.
There will be good games coming through, but as we saw last generation and into the next, the mainstream ones will mostly be dumb as feck.
I'd say that DA2's reuse of the same environments 15 times was almost as obnoxious as this issue
At least this server issue will eventually be fixed, that shitty game design will be the same foreverThen ME3's ending was so rushed and utterly pathetic, just jarring with concepts introduced in the last 10 mins, that fans of the series felt empty for months.
The concept for sim city 5 is pretty under-handed and I agree people should boycott it. Atleast sell the full game rather for that kind of money.
You're not really buying the game are you? Effectively you're paying 40 quid to rent a game out. Don't like it at all. Don't mind DLC but if it gets to the stage where you have to start buying content within the game to 'keep up' with others I'll be really fecked off. Hate all the micro transaction bollocks.
Sorry? Question wasn't aimed at you, just in general, in the future we won't be "buying" games but "renting" them.
Ahh, that wasn't very clear.
Actually you have been 'renting' the game in a way for years, now they've found a way to stop you selling a physical copy. (Andrew~ won't like this
)I never sell games anyway, so that aspect doesn't bother me, it's the overall direction it's all going that does. We are well and truly over a barrel, well we will be within the next few years.
They were always going to find a way to capitalise on the mobile-phone shit and bring it to the big stage. That coupled with Cloud means there's going to be even less option and even more of the whole "like what we tell you" mentality.
Might as well buy this shit and get used to it. (Yeah right...)
imaging the number of complaints they must be getting if they resorted to that.It has been a complete clusterfeck and they really should tell Lucy Bradshaw to shut her mouth unless they are enjoying this butchering.
Straight answers, they told us.
http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-update-straight-answers-from-lucy
You just need to read this article over at RPS (it's a long one, but it's an essential one) to understand how they are straight up lying to everyone, including themselves.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/16/simcity-bosss-straight-answers-seem-pretty-wiggly/
The game has even been hacked so it runs entirely offline. The modder(s) out there only need to create some sort of local save file and the humiliation is completed.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/14/modder-runs-simcity-offline-maxis-remains-silent/
It's the biggest cock up and lie fest in gaming history.
Straight answers, they told us.
http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-update-straight-answers-from-lucy
You just need to read this article over at RPS (it's a long one, but it's an essential one) to understand how they are straight up lying to everyone, including themselves.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/16/simcity-bosss-straight-answers-seem-pretty-wiggly/
The game has even been hacked so it runs entirely offline. The modder(s) out there only need to create some sort of local save file and the humiliation is completed.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/14/modder-runs-simcity-offline-maxis-remains-silent/
It's the biggest cock up and lie fest in gaming history.
Well, since the last major EA game, anyway.
Was looking into the last game and came across a site where people posted 'projects' they had like building a new motorway. They took pictures of every stage as if it was a report of some kind and even drafted a pretend application for the construction work. All the text was professionally worded and the whole thing was huge.
It was, without doubt, the gayest thing I've ever seen.
It was, without doubt, the gayest thing I've ever seen.
I see that the CEO of EA has resigned due to the poor financial performance of the company.. not surprising with the way they piss off their customer base..
They completely underestimated their customer base. Every game is made as simply and cheaply as possible in order to maximise sales through quantity rather than quality and reduce production costs. Their strategy has been to buy out publishers with titles and use the names of their titles to sell copies rather than the quality of the game.
It's all well and good people complaining about piracy but what they are doing to the games industry is just as damaging. They're buying up all the competition and exploiting their good names.
About time it caught up with them. The number of excellent game series that EA has destroyed by buying out the competition (the company that actually made the game) is disgraceful. The screw over their customers at any given chance, so I imagine there'd be a worldwide celebration if they finally stopped existing.
He had it coming. I mean he was CEO when EA took over Bioware for a price of ten Bébés and then failed astronomically when they fuelled the SWTOR project with $200m to try battle WoW for market shares. Recipe for disaster really.
Anyone playing this then? Had it since release and really enjoying it now. Looking to join a or start a region with a few decent people who won't just abandon after a day or so. Origin ID is same as on here if anyone fancies it.
Sim City 4 is far and away a better game. The new Sim City is seriously lacking any real depth. Once you've sorted out a layout, you don't really have to do anything else. It just sort of happens on its own.
Sim city launched on the mac today. Despite delaying the launch by two months they clearly didn't learn much from the PC launch. Most people reporting it unplayable, maxes out at a piss poor resolution, crashes quite a bit, goes to shit when you try to run it on mac settings (and that's for the new macs too), the controls on the trackpad are atrocious and feel counter intuitive.