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SimCity Arrives On the Mac on June 11th With Cross-Platform Servers
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Ok that's fine if you want a simple to play game. That is what this Simcity is, and therefore it should cost about $10 or less. Also, the true draw of Simcity is how expansive you COULD make a city, or you could make a small village if you want and just let it thrive. But with this you can't make anything but a town, and that blows for most people, even if they didn't even want to make a huge metropolis.
Big city management is what really gave Simcity that extra zing. Now it's just extra ztupid
I downloaded the PC version after I was tired of waiting and, more importantly, found out about the cross-platform thing. I have a $250 Windows 7 notebook, and it does actually kinda run the game -- as much as you can run a game on a notebook with a Celeron (I know!) processor. I lucked out and got 4GB of RAM, which was the minimum required.
It's pretty awesome, although it does have a few flaws. Some stuff I just never understand, like why homes will whine about a ferry or airport and then some advisor tells me I don't have enough tourists for one. I also don't like that my hourly income number at the bottom of the screen doesn't calculate the deals for selling power or materials such as plastic and metal. It'll say -$15,000/hour yet I keep banking because I'm selling alloy and processors.
So yeah, it has glitches. But it's pretty fun. Hopefully EA will support it with some DLC other than landmarks. I think the "small" city sizes are fine if the sims would go to the damn university in the next town instead of always begging for one.
It's pretty awesome, although it does have a few flaws. Some stuff I just never understand, like why homes will whine about a ferry or airport and then some advisor tells me I don't have enough tourists for one. I also don't like that my hourly income number at the bottom of the screen doesn't calculate the deals for selling power or materials such as plastic and metal. It'll say -$15,000/hour yet I keep banking because I'm selling alloy and processors.
So yeah, it has glitches. But it's pretty fun. Hopefully EA will support it with some DLC other than landmarks. I think the "small" city sizes are fine if the sims would go to the damn university in the next town instead of always begging for one.
Since they have now confirmed you get both Windows and OS X versions for the one price, now I'm wondering about getting the Windows version now and running it in my existing Parallels/Windows 7 VM. If it doesn't run well enough to be playable, I'll have lost nothing compared to waiting for the native OS X version.
SimCity 5 is shockingly bad in comparison to 4. I thought games were meant to get better with every new version. All EA have done is remove features and added a load of online nonsense that is supposed to equate to 'having fun'.
Do like the poo map though.
Do like the poo map though.
I think people also forgot how bad simcity societies was, however i am huge fan and will give it a try. Besides it comes out a day after my birthday, so how can i resist.
Really looking forward to this! 
just doesn't hope that origin ruins this in some way. terrible program.
just doesn't hope that origin ruins this in some way. terrible program.
Clearly you haven't had to deal with rolled back cities that get corrupt. After putting in a few hours of work and watching it all disappear, is just ridiculous.
NO to on-line requirements for software.
No thanks to always on-line. I travel a lot, and it is pointless to own a game you can't play in flight, or at a remote location with no internet, including if my kids wanted to play it on a laptop during our regular long drives. This is a trend in games that I feel consumers should make economically distasteful to the developers (if it is required - the game is a sales flop). If we buy the game, we are saying it is acceptable, and the trend will only continue to expand. I can't imagine anyone would accept this requirement for Office, Photoshop, FCP, or many other software titles. Yet people say this is OK for their leisure gaming?
No thanks to always on-line. I travel a lot, and it is pointless to own a game you can't play in flight, or at a remote location with no internet, including if my kids wanted to play it on a laptop during our regular long drives. This is a trend in games that I feel consumers should make economically distasteful to the developers (if it is required - the game is a sales flop). If we buy the game, we are saying it is acceptable, and the trend will only continue to expand. I can't imagine anyone would accept this requirement for Office, Photoshop, FCP, or many other software titles. Yet people say this is OK for their leisure gaming?
My .02 cents:
Yes the game has its share of problems. Yes it could have been better. That said, it's still a fun game and frankly I'd be playing it daily if it didn't mean I had to reboot into Windows. Can't wait for the Mac version. By then hopefully the lions share of bugs will be fixed.
Yes the game has its share of problems. Yes it could have been better. That said, it's still a fun game and frankly I'd be playing it daily if it didn't mean I had to reboot into Windows. Can't wait for the Mac version. By then hopefully the lions share of bugs will be fixed.
Until there is an offline version, this is an absolutely awful creation not worthy of my dollars. So much cool gameplay wasted by DRM.
This whole debacle makes me so angry.
I've loved Sim City since the original. I used to go over to a friend's house and play it on his PC (we didn't have one yet). I never really got into 4, but was excited to see what 5 would bring.
Little did I know they were planning to ruin it. They lost a guaranteed sale with the BS, and obviously I'm not alone. I just want to play it on my own. I don't want a social game. I wanted Sim City.
I've heard of some of the alternatives, but Cities XL isn't available for Macs as far as I'm aware. Tropico might be, but I haven't looked into it yet.
I've loved Sim City since the original. I used to go over to a friend's house and play it on his PC (we didn't have one yet). I never really got into 4, but was excited to see what 5 would bring.
Little did I know they were planning to ruin it. They lost a guaranteed sale with the BS, and obviously I'm not alone. I just want to play it on my own. I don't want a social game. I wanted Sim City.
I've heard of some of the alternatives, but Cities XL isn't available for Macs as far as I'm aware. Tropico might be, but I haven't looked into it yet.
It's funny that you mention Photoshop, as I know a lot of pro photographers (i.e. people that do serious commercial and art photography for a living) that do a lot of editing on their laptops while flying form gig to gig and if Photoshop was only online, Adobe would lose their business.
Had this been broadcast to us from the beginning, I could've ended up with a free darn game. But I ended up not learning that until about 3 days too late. I was watching IGN's videos with an editor playing SimCity for 10 minutes a day. I got to the point where I was looking up how much Windows 7 would be to run using Boot Camp, but then I remembered that Microsoft is stupid and charges like $200 for an OS. I don't get that considering the notebook I bought was $250 brand new. Yes, on sale, but it was $400 regularly. Is Windows really half the cost of a computer or does Microsoft hose people? (yes)
