This is the future of video games? No wonder I've been buying so many board games lately.

Alex Tabor · 2013-04-20T03:56:57

I will admit that I'm very disappointed in myself. I wasn't going to do it, but then I saw a few guys in my office doing it, so I decided I would join them. I purchased the new SimCity game. Things were a tad slow in the office today, so I managed to take off early to get a few things done, and this left me with free time. In theory this also meant that I would have a chance to explore the gameplay and design aspects of the latest SimCity. Bought it, got it installed in the afternoon, and sat down to play a bit. Co-workers warned me to set up on European servers as the US ones were hammered, followed their advice, and then half an hour later I was getting errors about having lost contact with the servers. No big deal right? This is still technically a single player game, I'm not interacting with any other players, so clearly not having contact with the server isn't a huge deal. I'll miss out on a few easy achievements maybe? It isn't kicking me off and has been flashing that message for awhile, so obviously everything is fine... Wait, I was eventually kicked off. So I take a break for supper, come back, and now I can't log in because the servers are down for maintenance, and their ETA on coming back up is <parameter string>. Great, so not only can the servers go down for an unknown length of time, but the people behind them are sloppy enough that I can see internal strings that I'm not suppose to. And this is the trend developers are pushing for? To piss me off enough that I declare to hell with their product, and have called up a friend to see if she and her roommate wants to play Carcassonne The City with me?

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Started by Luckless March 06, 2013 11:43 PM

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BladeOfWraith

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March 29, 2013 07:18 PM

I'm amazed a game review can sum up all of these issues and introduce a lot more in 5 minutes and be hilarious at the same time o_O

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Luckless

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March 29, 2013 08:44 PM

I'm amazed a game review can sum up all of these issues and introduce a lot more in 5 minutes and be hilarious at the same time o_O

He does have a gift.

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Shannon Barber

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April 20, 2013 03:56 AM

This is the part that makes me a bit sad. Why would they spend the money needed to make for a smooth launch when it doesn't matter? - people will still buy. There will be some bad press, a lot of grumbling etc., but does that really impact buying habits for the next game?

Yes; I haven't bought an EA game since the Spore rootkit,

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