Sim City 5

[Hoober]

Amazon has taken the downloadable version down as of now:

http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Art...pr_product_top

DOH!

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Amazon pulled it from retail -- wow --
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Art...cm_rdp_product

Awesome and says a lot. Good for amazon.


Man I have really learned my lesson buying a non-steam DRM'd game.

 

[Genx87]

Amazon pulled it from retail -- wow --
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Art...cm_rdp_product

I think it is funny they have a warning about the game while the box shows "Winner of 26 PC game awards".

lmao

There has to be a meme for this.

"Winner of 26 PC Game awards

Pulled from Amazon"

 

[Chaptorial]

I really like the game! But by no surprise I'm finding the city too small and feel like I have to demolish too much stuff to put in everything I want.. Then I started thinking that may be my fault.. There seems to be lots of options to outsource services, so why am I cramming it all into one city. Going to have to claim some nearby areas and specialize them a bit more.

I'm having the same login problems as everyone else and was super excited about this game and unfortunately it has been up to this point a big disappointment.

That being said once you are able to login and play, they key is indeed spreading your utilities and services around to each city and utilizing that support to each connected city. A college in one town will provide services to all the connected cities in the region etc.

 

[tdawg]

1. That's not confirmed whatsoever.
2. Steam does the same thing but people have no problems with it.

People can have their own opinions, I just wish the people haven't even bought the game would GTFO of this thread and let's actually discuss the gameplay and what's new instead of bitching and moaning.

:thumbup:

 

[SpatiallyAware]

 

[Aharami]

i have to admit that seeing such a heavily DRM'd game fail such miserably is providing me with immense satisfaction!!

 

[Genx87]

i have to admit that seeing such a heavily DRM'd game fail such miserably is providing me with immense satisfaction!!

I have to admit to revel in EAs failure here.

 

[Aharami]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/15/9342045.page

When you have to start cutting features from your game after launch, just to get it to work, you know sh** is desperate.

what?! they are cutting features now!? hahahahah

 

[Hoober]

I have to admit to revel in EAs failure here.

It'll be interesting to see what happens (if anything).

 

[KaOTiK]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/15/9342045.page


what?! they are cutting features now!? hahahahah

From what I read they are disabling leaderboards, achievements, and something else that isn't a priority feature iirc to help the servers.

 

[BoberFett]

It's bizzare I don't have any of these problems. I've played for like 30 hours since I got it. Made 2 full cities and am about to start another. specialize in something different each time.

The game is really fun. I realize people are mad but it's the connection, you will get to play eventually and you will have fun. I wish people would stop trashing the actual game out of frustration and giving up so soon. It sucks but it'll get better and you'll forget all about the log in problems.

Does anyone else smell astroturf?

 

[BoberFett]

Greenman!

That's awesome.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Does anyone else smell astroturf?

I'm wearing my tinfoil hat, but I swear EA has people on forums/news sites trying to damage control.

 

[Kneedragger]

i have to admit that seeing such a heavily DRM'd game fail such miserably is providing me with immense satisfaction!!

I couldn't agree more!!

 

[Wyndru]

Wow, I did not expect Amazon to pull it. They probably got sick of all the refund requests.

 

[Pantoot]

From what I read they are disabling leaderboards, achievements, and something else that isn't a priority feature iirc to help the servers.

As stated by lyman.brown elsewhere:
"DRM, of course, remains a critical feature."

 

[KaOTiK]

EA hiring chinese spammers to make good comments about always on drm?
http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1473

I really really really hope that this isn't true :/

 

[SpatiallyAware]

EA hiring chinese spammers to make good comments about always on drm?
http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1473

I really really really hope that this isn't true :/

Seriously, spend 10 minutes on the EA forums and you'll see the EXACT same "I've been playing since release, no problems! Everyone just be patient and don't post bad reviews!" type of comments.

 

[Anonemous]

Yea, EA's not the only one with reps in forums. I've seen it in other threads here...

EA hiring chinese spammers to make good comments about always on drm?
http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1473

I really really really hope that this isn't true :/

Anyways, that site seems to be mostly satire, so I wouldn't go about trusting every word they say.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Dare I say it....maybe this type of crap needs to be regulated a bit. It's unacceptable some customers cannot get refunds on a clearly faulty product. This is where the gaming industry shows its lack of maturity imo.

 

[CPA]

Amazon has taken the downloadable version down as of now:

http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Art...pr_product_top

That is very telling.

 

[CPA]

Dare I say it....maybe this type of crap needs to be regulated a bit. It's unacceptable some customers cannot get refunds on a clearly faulty product. This is where the gaming industry shows its lack of maturity imo.

I really wish a state Attorney General would step into this, hell Holder should as it crosses state lines. This would be unacceptable for any other product.

 

[TheVrolok]

1. That's not confirmed whatsoever.
2. Steam does the same thing but people have no problems with it.

People can have their own opinions, I just wish the people haven't even bought the game would GTFO of this thread and let's actually discuss the gameplay and what's new instead of bitching and moaning.

How do you propose we discuss gameplay when there are many out there who can't physically play the game?

 

[blurredvision]

How do you propose we discuss gameplay when there are many out there who can't physically play the game?

There are many who can play and have played quite a bit. You guys make it sound like it's completely down and has been for 2 days now. That's simply not true.