2013-03-19, 00:22 | Link #241 |
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Well, seems that they are going to patch traffic a bit. Forcing sims to take alternate routes to get to their destinations, regardless of distance if the road is too crowded. Doesn't fix the Highway entrance bottleneck though.
There was something else I saw tody that was also getting ixed but for the life of me I can't think of it. Also, those free game choices are pathetic.
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2013-03-19, 23:56 | Link #246 |
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I'll probably get DS3, but who knows if i will ever play it.
Friend pointed out that the games are either extremely old, or have DLC/Cash shops. I did find it hilarious that they'd offer SimCity players SimCity 4 though, I'm pretty sure the majority of folks would have that already.
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2013-04-23, 03:06 | Link #247 | |
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I have yet to buy this game -- as if that'll ever happen. As a matter of consolation, I've actually been playing the Facebook game. However, my slow butt didn't even notice the announcement until today:
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http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=2968221 To think, this news came a week ago. Anyways, consider this as a guaranteed foreshadow to the current game. Others have made similar comments long before this. But, let's just say - the future shutdown will be swift. And btw, I did not pay a single penny to play the Facebook game. I feel smart - and dumb (for playing it at all) - at the same time.
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2013-04-23, 04:32 | Link #249 | |
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It is one thing to sucker millions of people to pay for a bad game. It is another to tell the gamer to spend more money on that game after the fact.
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2013-04-23, 06:20 | Link #251 | |
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It reminds me of Napoleon:Total War. That game had massive AI bugs, mostly because the person who codes AI simply left the studio and never came back. He was the only one who knew how the game worked. Eventually the studio just gave up on fixing it and decided to focus on a new TotalWar game instead. They literally told their customers "sorry, we don't have the resources to give you what you wanted, but the next Total War would be better we promise". As I say, the proof is in the DLC. If only a tiny proportion of players buy DLC, the game is doomed. We just have to wait for the numbers to see which way it goes.
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Someday, this game will have its plug pulled - and everything will be gone. And just to let you know, I still have my SimCity 2000 and 3000 cities (if I want to).
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2013-04-23, 09:44 | Link #254 |
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Another recent example of a broken, unfixable game was the FFXIV. When the core game is rotten, even throwing money at it can't fix it. Square Enix eventually had to abandon the game code entirely and start from scratch because you can't patch a bad game to make it good.
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2013-04-23, 10:30 | Link #255 |
Did someone call a doctor
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Oh, wow, that's bad. I wouldn't say SimCity is that bad. The game is still somewhat unsound but it is playable to a basic or moderate level that can be quite fun for few hours. It's just a shame (and unsurprising) that the core features they were touting failed so badly initially their dicks came out of their collective noses. Despite that there are a few key systems which they have been patching, which were broken, like RCI and worker/shopper distribution. I'd say hopefully EA learns from this, but lets not kid ourselves. If they take anything from this, it will be the wrong thing - something like 'simulation games don't sell!'
This weeks Jimquisition about pasta would probably be kinda apt for this discussion in a way.
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2013-04-24, 09:48 | Link #256 |
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The 2.0 patch appeared to have generated new bugs. Like trees that make siren noises.
All in all, the opinion is that there are MORE crashes and bugs than before the patch. That traffic still doesn't work, the sewers are over-flowing, and fire now burns indefinitely. I think this proves it; Simcity is fundamentally broken in its basic code, and as such they couldn't fix it in any realistic way. Don't know if it is more or less broken than old FFXIV, but we will find out if it is still unplayable in 12 months. http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comm...heres_my_list/
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2013-04-28, 00:21 | Link #260 |
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Hmm, interesting:
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:EA Looking at the 10 year graph... EA never recovered from the financial collapse of 2008...
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