Sim City - Page 7

Crator · 2013-03-18, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Assist

So, what free game to choose ?
Any thoughts on what is the best game on Origin ?

They are only offering specific games for the free game: https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-something-extra

Which games are available?

Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
Bejeweled 3
Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
MOHW (Standard Edition)
NFS Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
Plants vs. Zombies
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

krnasaur · 2013-03-18, 05:47 PM

no dragon age? damn. I really wanted to play that one

p0intman · 2013-03-18, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Crator

They are only offering specific games for the free game: https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-something-extra

Which games are available?

Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
Bejeweled 3
Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
MOHW (Standard Edition)
NFS Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
Plants vs. Zombies
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

HERE, OUR CURRENT GAME SUCKS AND WE FUCKED UP, HAVE THE PREVIOUS VERSION ON US!

But if you want to fuck their wallet as much as you can, deadspace 3 is still $40 bucks or so.

Crator · 2013-03-18, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by p0intman

HERE, OUR CURRENT GAME SUCKS AND WE FUCKED UP, HAVE THE PREVIOUS VERSION ON US!

But if you want to fuck their wallet as much as you can, deadspace 3 is still $40 bucks or so.

But you really aren't hurting their wallet. It's not a tangible object and I'm sure the game has paid for itself already from a costs to produce perspective. So yeah, some profit loss but it's not like they are throwing money out the door literally.

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-18, 07:22 PM

If it's a message one wants to send EA, then perhaps choosing SimCity 4 would be a better choice. Not that I think they would get any such message, even if all those given the free game chose SimCity 4.

Edit: EA's CEO, John Riccitiello, has also stepped down earlier this month. Here's hoping that it will usher in a change in their overall strategy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielny...own-as-ea-ceo/

Crator · 2013-03-30, 10:14 AM

EA: "DRM is a failed dead-end strategy" EA Labels president Frank Gibeau responds to "conspiracy theories" about SimCity and puts his foot down when it comes to DRM

It's a MMO guys!

No, SimCity is Not an MMO ~forbes.com

SimCity is Not an MMO ~EA Forums

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-30, 12:21 PM

I agree with Mr. Thier. Sure the game has multiplayer elements but there's nothing in the game that you cannot do on your own by simply having your own region for yourself, at which point it becomes an online singleplayer game.
There's nothing to indicate that you interacting with other players is a requirement, heck modern FPS's are more MMO like than SimCity.

Hamma · 2013-03-30, 12:47 PM

I haven't touched this since before MLG.

Crator · 2013-03-30, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by ChipMHazard

I agree with Mr. Thier. Sure the game has multiplayer elements but there's nothing in the game that you cannot do on your own by simply having your own region for yourself, at which point it becomes an online singleplayer game.
There's nothing to indicate that you interacting with other players is a requirement, heck modern FPS's are more MMO like than SimCity.

How can a game be MMO-like. It's not a genre, it's a game type. So you have single player, multiplayer (LAN & online), or you have massive-multiplayer online.

For instance, is BF3 a MMO? It's played online, has leader boards and a lobby to select servers to play with players around the world. What's different from BF3 and SimCity in that regard?

I define MMO as a massive amount of players either in the same persistent world or participating in the same game play as the rest of the players in some fashion. Max players in one region doesn't constitute massive imo. Perhaps EA/Maxis planned to have those type of features, but I'm not seeing them.

p0intman · 2013-03-30, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by Crator

How can a game be MMO-like. It's not a genre, it's a game type. So you have single player, multiplayer (LAN & online), or you have massive-multiplayer online.

For instance, is BF3 a MMO? It's played online, has leader boards and a lobby to select servers to play with players around the world. What's different from BF3 and SimCity in that regard?

I define MMO as a massive amount of players either in the same persistent world or participating in the same game play as the rest of the players in some fashion. Max players in one region doesn't constitute massive imo. Perhaps EA/Maxis planned to have those type of features, but I'm not seeing them.

BF3 is as much of an MMO as Arma3 is. Neither are. It pisses me off that EA likes to dumb down every single term and buzzword they can find without actually using it properly.

/rage

Glad I didn't pay for this version of sim city.

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-31, 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by Crator

How can a game be MMO-like. It's not a genre, it's a game type. So you have single player, multiplayer (LAN & online), or you have massive-multiplayer online.

For instance, is BF3 a MMO? It's played online, has leader boards and a lobby to select servers to play with players around the world. What's different from BF3 and SimCity in that regard?

I define MMO as a massive amount of players either in the same persistent world or participating in the same game play as the rest of the players in some fashion. Max players in one region doesn't constitute massive imo. Perhaps EA/Maxis planned to have those type of features, but I'm not seeing them.

It obviously can't, barrring trying to further define what the term Massive Multiplayer Online means. SimCity is a strange one, as Forbes points out, it's a game that requires you to always play online, yet it doesn't require you to play with other players at all. Not playing with others is actually more advantageous as you recieve the same bonuses from just running your own region. Plus you always design a city on your own. There's nothing, besides wanting a strict DRM, that warranted having to always be online.

Assist · 2013-04-01, 01:30 PM

I made a city yesterday morning, before relatives showed up for Easter, and allowed it to run all day(~10 hrs). The city had a few utilities, and maybe 1/5th of the map was residential. I walked away with 1400 residents, and nearly every major utility(hospital, big fire/police stations). When I came back I was well in the red for electric, waste disposal, sewage, water, but I did have 115,000 residents and 2.8 million monies!

Logged out and kind of lost hope with the game then :\ Wish they'd fix the dumbshit that makes that stuff possible.

Hamma · 2013-04-02, 10:28 AM

Interesting experiment

Crator · 2013-04-18, 02:45 PM

So EA is shutting down SimCity Social. I didn't know much about it. It's a web based Facebook game that people were able to spend real money in to get perks. So those who did spend money on the game, and enjoy it, loose everything they bought? WTH? Makes me concerned for any F2P online based game now, even PS2. What happens when SOE decides to shut down the PS2 servers? Everyone looses what they bought? Just doesn't seem right.

http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=2968221

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9451413.page

ChipMHazard · 2013-04-18, 05:27 PM

Well, yes. That's what happens when any online only game shuts down its servers. Not much to do about that since there's no offline content.
People should just be a lot more stingy when it comes to what F2Ps they spend money on.