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SimCity Arrives On the Mac on June 11th With Cross-Platform Servers

neuropsychguy said:
I got Sim City the day it came out and have been playing it since. It's very enjoyable. I had one evening I couldn't connect to the servers the Friday night after it came out but since then have had no problems. I find it much more enjoyable than Sim City 4.

Note: I've been playing Sim City games since the original. Sim City 2000 was my favorite but I think this new one comes close.

Yes, the city sizes are small but I get around that by building a group of cities. I'm hoping EA/Maxis increases the city sizes but for now I've been enjoying it. I certainly have my quibbles with the game but they don't mean I can't enjoy the game. Later stage in cities can be a pain though because a city will be going along just fine then all the sudden you'll be way over budget and running out of funds, even without making poor money decisions. I guess that's like real life governments though - deficits, deficits, deficits.

One thing that made it even better is that through a series of deals Sim City only cost me $35 at launch (plus I got ME3 for free).
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Glad your enjoying, for me its been so bad I am not buying any EA games for at lease one year to help recoup the $90 I lost on this horrible version of SimCity, were you have to spend more time trying to work around the bugs then developing your city. That means I am not buying Tiger Woods 14 or the next NFS games, I always buy.

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OrangeSVTguy said:
I just don't get why digital downloads cost as much if not the same as a physical copy?

Also will we be able to download to additional platforms without paying? I like that I can play diablo 3 on OSX and windows and only had to pay for the game once.
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Because the biggest cost of a game is not the CD or the box.
 
Where can you get it for $35

Mrbill317 said:
I cant believe they are still trying to sell this for 60 bucks. Almost every site is between 35 and 50 with and without sales.
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Where can you find it for 35? I haven't seen that anywhere but I guess I don't know where to look. Any suggestions? Anyone else seen it for a cheaper price?
 
I was really really excited when I heard about this game. But now, with the DRM and all the issues I've read, and having to wait until June? I'll probably have lost all interest by then. Too bad...
 
No interest.

And tell me, what happens to all the gamers who shelled out $60 for this game when EA decides it's not worth continuing to run the servers?

The computer industry really has a great scam going, with non-product and non-services, charged out the ass and then abandoned when the shiny grabs their greedy eyes to another short-term non-product or non-service that they can sell for more, while investing less in actual product development. Then the executives make it even more abusive by treating the customers as thieves and ruining the "product" by pushing it to market incomplete and crippled by pointless DRM.

This industry has a pathological loss aversion problem. It makes obscene profits, hand over fist, increasing yearly, but then whines about how much more it could have made if its audience wasn't a bunch of thieving scumbags.
 
I would have bought this in a second if it wasn't for the always on fiasco.
 
Thrilled that this was PC-first. I'd have bought this on day one otherwise and been screwed.

It's starting to become a world where a devoted, yet casual gamer, doesn't really have a place.
If I can't play it in a hotel room with a crappy connection then it's no good to me.
 
Will this version include the PC limited edition content as well?

That's the one thing many people I know want to know?
 
No thanks

Given the fact that it has taken EA years to get the Scrabble app less convoluted (I have to name the game and I can't reuse a name? Really?) and a wee bit more usable–I know what you're thinking: "it's Scrabble! how could they screw that up?" Well, they did–I have no faith in their ability to create a more-complicated-yet-user-friendly game.
 
I might have played this, despite the rocky launch, if not for the fact that the simulation itself has turned out to be all smoke and mirrors. I might have overlooked the fact the game is always online if EA had even once been honest about why.

Now, I would not play SimCity if they paid me $60.
 
Never played Sim City, never played a game on Origin <--- will never do. Battlefield 3 opens via Steam.
 
I want to play it, it looks fun. But if EA is reading this, I'm NOT paying $60 to play on your servers that you have proven time and time again that you cannot get right. Allow me to play it offline or you'll never see my money.
 
People act as though EA is the only company to have problems launching an online game. Because, you know, Blizzard never had problems with WoW, StarCraft II, and Diablo III. I bought SimCity and I'm having lots of fun playing it.

SimCity is a great game. Who cares if it's a replacement for SimCity 4 or not? That game's been done. If you want to play it, go ahead and play it. This game is something else, so judge it on its own merits. I only had issues accessing a server once, and when I did I just started another city on another server. The only bugs that have affected me really are clumping of emergency vehicles, which is scheduled to be fixed in the next patch (though it is funny to watch 25 cop cars respond to a crime). My only complaint is that once you get your city specialization going it's really easy. My city is losing around $10,000 per hour, but I have over $25M from building computers. Yes, the city sizes are small, but I just play an entire region myself and worry about the region population.
 
chadley_chad said:
go to the gym, go for a walk, visit a strip club .... But purlease ... Don't be sad and waste your life creating a fictional city that no one cares about that is purely ... Well ... Fictional! Get a life, build a house, a shed, a tarmac road, but don't be a sado who sits in front of their pc half their life building a fake city!
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stop liking things i don't! :D
 
scoobydoo99 said:
So you _want_ DRM. hmm. what exactly about DRM is it that adds to your experience?
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I didnt say that at all.

My point was you can dislike it, thats your choice and i can actually understand it, but I personally love the game and couldn't care less about the drm. This is my choice and I object to someone else assuming their view is the only correct one and speaking for me.
 
dysamoria said:
No interest.

And tell me, what happens to all the gamers who shelled out $60 for this game when EA decides it's not worth continuing to run the servers?

The computer industry really has a great scam going, with non-product and non-services, charged out the ass and then abandoned when the shiny grabs their greedy eyes to another short-term non-product or non-service that they can sell for more, while investing less in actual product development. Then the executives make it even more abusive by treating the customers as thieves and ruining the "product" by pushing it to market incomplete and crippled by pointless DRM.

This industry has a pathological loss aversion problem. It makes obscene profits, hand over fist, increasing yearly, but then whines about how much more it could have made if its audience wasn't a bunch of thieving scumbags.
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now that is an interesting point -- if they shut down their servers -- does that mean no more game play? woof.
 
Kissaragi said:
You take it wrong then.
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You must be easily amused then, based on the numerous complaints and comments on the gaming sites.

I play games mostly when traveling, the must be connected thing is a deal breaker for many of us.
 
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