I’m so excited. I can’t wait until I can actually connect to a server and play it!
I managed to get on and play for a while, but it appears the servers are down again.
In the meantime, has anyone figured out if you can rotate things when you set them down? They seem to snap to the grid, but I’ve run into issues where, for example, one of those long skinny parks wants to go perpendicular to the road, but there’s no room. If I could just get it to go parallel, everything would be great, but heck if I can figure out if you can rotate. Anyone?
I almost want to put this in the pit but this online server stuff is really frustrating. I have had this game for two days and have yet to be able to play. When I finally was able to connect I tried the tutorial but while the city loads, nothing else happens. All I can do is move around. Googling suggests this is a server issue so I went out and tried going back in but no server works. Just ridiculous.
I had heard that and I hope that comes soon. Because the way the game is now totally blows.
Like why is there so much empty space between tiny cities in a region?
Why do we have to do this stupid region thing anyway?
Look…All I want to do is make a giant sprawling megalopolis. Basically SimCity 4 with 3D and curving roads. Sort of like CitiesXL figured out 3 years ago.
How was Sim City 4? I’m not looking to get Sim city 5 for awhile, but I never played past Sim City 3.
Was 4 any good? I may get it.
4 is good but had a terrible tendency to crash every so often. Save frequently.
Ah, makes me sad, so I suppose I’ll have to pass on SimCity5. This is exactly what I was hoping for as well. I have no problem with doing regions; it might be fun, but I was definitely hoping for a lot more.
I caved and bought it. Huge mistake. I spent a couple of hours trying to get on tonight and I couldn’t. So I just played CitiesXL for a bit.
Servers seemed more stable for me lately.
I’m definitely liking this game. SimCity4 was great for sprawling metropolises, especially when mod’d to handle traffic better. But this SimCity is great for tweaking you city. And the multiplayer regions are a lot of fun.
Yep, the servers were solid for me last night; I got in several hours of uninterrupted gameplay. Very fun! Very immersive!
EA kills another franchise fresh off wiping its greedy draconian arse with the Command and Conquer franchise. Tiny cities, social networking shite and always online even for single player? Voting with my wallet on this, EA can go screw itself with this and Crysis 3. Baby’s first SimCity, at least SimCity Societies will be cheaper. SimCity 4 it is for me then, still the best in the franchise years later.
You’d have thought these utter incompetents would have learned from the Spore debacle, DRM that made it one of the most pirated games.
Suit yourself.
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The problem with Spore wasn’t DRM. The problem with Spore was that the game sucked. If it had been totally player-side, no DRM, it would still have sucked. It was an awful game.
In the end, if the game is awesome, people will play it. I mean, I played the hell out of EverQuest, World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic, and those are games you can only play online, right? If SimCity 5 is worth playing, it is.
That said, I’m going to wait a month until (a) the isnanely frustrating server issues are sorted out - when is someone going to launch a game like this and not actually be caught by surprise that lots of people want to play a new game? and (b) I get a good picture of just how it stacks up. The idea of smaller cities and being forced to do the regions thing is, I admit, a huge drawback for me. I don’t like “The Sims” and dn’t want to play it with roads. I liked “SimCity,” and want a better version of that. I want to turn a tiny little town into a huge city.
But we’ll see. If the core city building game is cool, I’ll try it. But this review goes into quite literally everything I was afraid they were going to do to the game:
I shall. I still play Sim City 4 more than 10 years after it came out. Do I have faith in EA to maintain their servers in perpetuity for a game I want to play single-player and that I have ponied up cash for? Absolutely not. As soon as they pull the plug the game disc becomes a coaster and I’ll be damned if I’m paying full retail price for what amounts to a rental. I also resent EA for treating all their customers as potential thieves, so much schadenfraude was had when their draconian Spore DRM bit them hard. Sadly they are too stupid to learn from that, which is a shame because I love the SimCity franchise.
I think I’ll stick with my SimCity 2000. I hate online-only DRM
Those are MMORPGS…which falls down if the O is omitted. I never remember anyone asking for SimCity to be an online only experience and there’s no reason it should be. Again, even the *single *player requires this ‘always online’ bullshit.
I agree that Spore was massively overhyped, but that’s hardly a first for gaming, if you were silly enough to buy into publisher hype as far as I’m concerned you’re setting yourself up for a fall. Just look a Black & White back in the day. But at least Peter Molyneux didn’t treat you like a thief. Just compare the reviews for Spore with those for SimCity. Again I don’t have faith in EA to maintain their servers for as long as I own the game - servers which your saves are also dependant on btw.
I realise I’m starting to sound like I’ve got a serious chip on my shoulder about this, but you’d be dead wrong - I’ve a whole potato about this, because I wanted to like it. Like I said I love SimCity 4, it still gets a regular outing on my machine, and after 10 years I couldn’t wait to see what the next instalment would bring. The review you linked to though pretty much spells out why I’m pissed off. The worst bit being the new region mechanic, in SimCity 4 you could create huge linked cities that eventually developed to span entire regions in a megalopolis. That’s what I wanted to see from the next gen of the franchise, instead EA bungled it again.
I am just putting this here so i can say “I told you so” in 5 years when EA is either bankrupt or decides that the SimCity servers are no longer worth maintaining, and you people who said “What’s the difference, I’m always online anyway” lose access to the game forever.
If you need me, I’ll be in the other room playing some 12 year old games.
Electronic Arts isn’t some fly-by-night operation. It’s more than thirty years old. I think it’s safe to say that it will be around in five years.
They’re already struggling with their bottom line. THQ just imploded. The AAA game space is not a happy one right now.
Anyway, while they might still BE there, why do you think they’ll consider it a good investment to maintain servers for a game that is selling zero copies and making zero money at that point? This isn’t an MMO. There’s no subscription to keep it going. Or maybe they’ll add MICROTRANSACTIONS to help pay the ongoing server cost! Wouldn’t THAT be a great addition to the game?
Edit: THQ was 24 years old. EA isn’t proof against bad decisions just because they’ve been around a while.