CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

So with the release of the latest installment of SimCity, people are having a hissy fit over the online connection thing to prevent piracy. EA has, quite obviously, botched the launch of this game, but given the opportunity that they fix some of the bugs in the game and get the servers acting right all the time, is anyone planning on getting in on the playing god, err- I mean playing mayor action?

I know I am. I bought a digital copy of SimCity2000 for Mac last night, thinking it would satisfy my want to play the game, and it only made it worse. Now I'm just getting antsy, waiting for Maxis to finish the Mac version of the game.

His resignation has been coming for a couple of months though according to other sources. So it's not like the SimCity debacle is what caused it, though I wouldn't be surprised if it sped up the process.

I've been playing SimCity 4 and while it's not perfect, it's probably still the closest thing to what I want a SimCity to be, based on what I've read about the mechanics of the new SimCity. At this point, the only thing I really want from the new SimCity is the visualization of the data. I'm confident that they'll eventually fix the simulation and server issues, but the scale of the cities and how they're intended to interact in regions is a dealbreaker for me.

Xeno wrote:I know I am. I bought a digital copy of SimCity2000 for Mac last night, thinking it would satisfy my want to play the game, and it only made it worse. Now I'm just getting antsy, waiting for Maxis to finish the Mac version of the game.

I did the same with about the same result...

This stinks for Maxis. Everything I've seen suggests that this is a really good game its just dealing with the stupidity that is always online DRM. If you removed that, you'd have a pretty good Sim City game.

We've gotta move these colour TVs.

I won't buy a non-MMO/singleplayer game that requires contacting a server to play. I still have games I bought in the '90s, and companies go belly up or abandon their product support from time to time. Also, I'm philosophically opposed to copy protection because it doesn't stop copying; it only hurts legitimate users. I have games I bought in a brick-and-mortar store that I can no longer play because the copy protection was botched. I had to buy SC4 twice because the disc version's copy protection was borked. There's a reason I feel the way I do about copy protection schemes.

You know, I'm still waiting for the always online DRM stuff to catastrophically fail. I mean, yes Diablo 3's release was bad and Sim City's release was horrible but I don't think we've seen exactly how bad this can get. Both of those games still seemed to have decent sales and decent reception minus the DRM bit. I think the industry needs someone to really, really crash and burn before they learn that this is a terrible idea.