So much hysteria, but a supposedly good game

1) All upset about Origin and above which they are no longer in control of their data and need to be permanently online.

I would be interested times how many of these gentlemen have a Facebook account, are in World of Warcraft 24/7 online or by loyalty cards in our beautiful heal consumer world are traveling! (I'm not on Facebook yet at Paypal. Steam, Origin and espionage UbiClient are already enough in my life and WOW I stopped after 8 months, it was just too dangerous).

2) Yes, the server problems are a debacle! An absolute no-go, but that was by now admitted by EA and also in accordance with an apology (acknowledged in the form of a free game from the IT portfolio).

However, I must also say that people have to do nothing else in life than to sit for hours in front of the computer and wait for what happened?!?!

Here indeed were often the examples with the car that they indeed are to run, so fits quite well, but when the dealer nachbessert, I do not sit so well in front of the shop and wait until the truck repaired.

3) Moreover, it seems anyway to one or to give to others who buy Sim City and honest love Mitkäufer, we tear the EA games from the hand, the success of this company is right and then make the simple keep it up! And we all who bought this game, and now need not get excited about such a conduct, because our money we give the Publischern law. (3 Battelfield it was exactly like that and in spite of everything it went like hotcakes, do not want to know how many the then roared revenge and wanted to never buy a game from EA now but bought Sim City).

It was foreseeable that the servers are overloaded, so I have alluded my version until the weekend and ran with two exceptions on Sunday also everything without problems (at the time, I then made a wonderful walk in the snow, one or the other hardcore gamers would sometimes good do).

So that had to be written now times of the soul! (No I'm not on the payroll of EA)

PRO:

-Small Cards (yes I know bah ihhh too small) But: It requires quite a bit of tinkering
To get a city to 200,000 inhabitants.

-The Region System I also succeeded in that you have to plan its cities and all the decisions that you meet in a city, somehow affects the surrounding towns.

Simplifications in favor of clarity. Locate well the many tables are gone and everything can be found, more or less intuitive and you can see quickly the points at which it falls short.

- Addition possible from public buildings such as schools, hospitals etc.

- Major Projects

-The Gewussel on the streets, the city is alive and it shows.

CONTRA:

- Simplifications have failed sometimes spartan.

- Region Trade I find something awkward and too rudimentary, would like to see the will of the expanded somewhat.

- I find round road toll, I also annular cities great, but I find then should adjust public buildings and parks at the round conditions.

- No Terraforming (or I have overlooked this?)

- It is expensive I think (If you look at the policy of DLC EA, is still a lot to come because costly to us, which is only a forecast!)

Conclusion:

Sim City is managed bottom line, because what I want? Correct play and I could specifically for hours at a time, which today is already rare (no not now due to server failure) was that one evening sits down at the computer and to scare them with the notes it just yet until 20:00 clock and now already 12:30 is. At least, Sim City has managed to tied me to the computer. And that is to inspire well meaning and purpose of a game, to tie to take and they succeeded.

All the still upset about the server debacle I can because countered only with Peter Lustig's words:

Just relax and indeed your own computer and just do something different than his wasting time to get excited about something.

I had early experience with online titles such as Dark Age of Camelot, a rule has since always remained the same:

Never Play on patching Day! And that was always on release day of the new addons.

-------------------------------------------------- ------- Addendum after a few hours of play from the extensive 15.03.2013 (and depreciation): ---------------------------- --------------------------------------------------

The longer you play the worse reveal weaknesses AI and tons of errors.

Junctions prove to be real fun brakes, the more you have of it, the worse it is.

Industrial enterprises are crying out for customers (at a ratio of 20 apartments for industry: 1 and enough commercial area is also available) and why? Because the trucks get stuck in traffic jams. Well then build more roads would think of so many, I also just used the AI ​​is not this.

Power supply defective, dozens of houses cry out for electricity, despite surplus of 102 MW? Maxis I want an explanation!

Dropouts in the emergency services, the fire brigade or police (due to the intersections)

Pointless rumgegurke the garbage disposal, not to speak of the car of the recycling center.

For demolition of buildings often remain "remnants" on. The only way you get when you tear off the road, which then sometimes can mean the loss of a $ 225,000 building .....

And one could cite any number of little quirks which then spoil the fun yet. Yes At first it's fun, takes as already described above, but as it is with blenders so, at the beginning of sunshine and roses, breaks after the misfortune of that.

So here, too, there's always less likely to motivate this game to start.

What then to all abundance the biscuit is deflects, the EA / Maxis lies to the customers in my opinion. It is quite possible this game to play offline (a corresponding Mod has been around, but I want to warn at this point, to use him, EA could interpret as cracking and close the account).

Also there you can build on the city boundaries, so Shame on you EA & Maxis. For ye your customers so deceiving.

I understand publishers who want to protect their product, but to deal with its customers as is a different league,

that is not only outrageous, that's simply obscene because help is no longer a free game. I for one will draw the necessary conclusions.