New SimCity!

[SXRguyinMA]

WOOTZ! Looks good too. I still rock SC4 with Rush Hour from time to time :D

http://www.simcity.com/en_US

[Fuganater]

looks amazing!

[Collinstheclown]

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/264/241/9e9.gif

[Aldersan]

Bahaha that's like my favorite line :D I use it all the time, ask TLHarrel :P

[d_stilgar]

I hate EA, so I don't know what I'm going to do about this. Also, no Will Wright. Also, it's EA, so bad DRM. Also, it's EA, so the price will be insanely high and never come down on Steam.

[d_stilgar]

Of course, to rebut myself, the online aspect looks cool (although it means that cheat codes are probably all gone), and it would be fun to play with a bunch of you guys or my brother in a region.

And really, it's still being developed by Maxis, who I love, but published by EA, who I hate, so it may be alright yet, if EA doesn't ruin the distribution.

[Outlaw]

Looks like it will be quite a bit better then previous versions. Still can't get over the random crashes SC4 RH has...
And it looks like its the same price as every other game release. Pre-order $60, Pre-order deluxe $80. What happened to the day of variable pricing?

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/en_US/html/pbPage.SimcityNA/ThemeID.718200

[d_stilgar]

I think it's hard to say, "same as every other release." I'm still in the world where games I'm very very excited for have a limit of $50. I will not pay $60 for any title. It's crazy. $50 is my max. For most games, I wait 'til they drop below the $20 mark. For games with lots of DLC, I'll wait until the entire pack is less than $20.

Second, I'm a big Steam guy. These other companies trying to do their own thing are too late to the game in my book. I have a 161 titles in my Steam library, I'm not going to go to something else unless they can really offer me something, like insanely better pricing.

[CrazyTeaPot]

Dammit... I hate EA. I'll probably wait until I can buy it used somewhere so they don't get any money from me, at least. And it'll be good to wait anyways to see the reviews.. because.. you know, it's EA.

SPORE: NEVER FORGET. lol

[Outlaw]

I think it's hard to say, "same as every other release." I'm still in the world where games I'm very very excited for have a limit of $50. I will not pay $60 for any title. It's crazy. $50 is my max. For most games, I wait 'til they drop below the $20 mark. For games with lots of DLC, I'll wait until the entire pack is less than $20.

Second, I'm a big Steam guy. These other companies trying to do their own thing are too late to the game in my book. I have a 161 titles in my Steam library, I'm not going to go to something else unless they can really offer me something, like insanely better pricing.

I agree. I don't have near that many titles on steam, but steam is the shiznit (for a lot of stuff). lol

[AmEv]

They know when you've pirated something, and very rarely (if ever) does the anti-piracy measures get in the way of the non-pirates.
Besides, the stuff is (usually) cheap (for most).

Most I've paid for a game is $20. Twice.
First time was First Decade. (but that's several games in one)
Second time was Minecraft (when Notch got married). Great deals on both.

[d_stilgar]

SPORE: NEVER FORGET. lol

I'm still waiting for the Spore everything pack to be $20 on Steam . . . by the time it happens I'll just be over Spore completely.


They know when you've pirated something, and very rarely (if ever) does the anti-piracy measures get in the way of the non-pirates.
Besides, the stuff is (usually) cheap (for most).


I think you are getting this backwards. The anti-piracy measure almost never hurt the pirates, and almost always hurt the people who bought the game.

[AmEv]

Then again...

I'm talking about steam.

Then again....

[d_stilgar]

Then again...
I'm talking about steam.


True, true. If we're talking about steam, then I've never been let down.

However, I almost always see some story in the news about DRM servers going down (which force players to be connected 100% of the time they are playing a single player game) and 1000s of fans being incredibly angry about not being able to play or their progress being lost, despite the fact that technologically their progress could have been saved locally, or the fact that they aren't able to play a game they legally purchased.

Steam is like this only a little bit, and again, I've never had any issues ever playing my games on Steam.

So, yeah, I know Steam is DRM, but it's been the most convenient way to buy and play games I've ever used. And . . . even if I buy games in the store, many of them force me to create some account on some idiotic sytem/server/store thing, which is really irritating.

I'm not going to get out my hook and eyepatch, but these sort of things really make me want to. Instead, I just choose to never play those games.

[slaveofconvention]

I have to agree in regards the DRM - I don't pirate games, and in retrospect EA did kinda do me a favour, but when I bought C&C4 I couldn't play it for the first 10 days because the DRM servers were down - after 10 days, it sucked the big one, but I shouldn't have had to wait 10 days to find out how awful the game I bought retail actually was....
Publishers have every right to protect their work but when that protection inadvertantly penalises the legit customer base, they need to rethink it

[AmEv]

C&C4....

I never bought it.

Glad, too.

My friend bought it, and was thoroughly annoyed by the spam *cough* (I mean the live chat) bar in single player, and the fact that you needed to be online to play.

(SUFFAH DIALUP USERS!!!)

[CrazyTeaPot]

That trend annoys me to no end. Why do I need an internet connect for a single player game! :/

I tried to play Dragon Age on my 360 once without internet and it wouldn't launch the game. Like, that's not even an online game in any regard... And of course, it's made by EA.

[AmEv]

Red Alert 2?
Made by Westwood.
Published by EA.
One of my favorite games.

Red Alert 3?
Mainly EA
I don't know. Heard it's possibly better than 2. Then again.....

C&C 4?
I think EA missed a spot where the idioticy wasn't cleaned up from where it exploded.

[Drum Thumper]

Uhm....Minecraft has been out for a while now.

:P

[AmEv]

I know it has.

I just bought it when it was $11 a copy, that's all.

[crenn]

Excited about a new Sim City, not excited about the price (First time I've heard of a "limited edition" being limited....) of AUD$100 (That would be EAs fault) and the fact you're going to be forced to use origin (And yes, I do have an origin account, because I bought Crysis 2, after I finished it, I haven't touched it).

My girlfriend is also disappointed about the fact they're taking pre-orders now and it's not being released until next year and doesn't even have a set release date either.

And the kitten just wanted to say: "aszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz".

[Outlaw]

lol. I think I'll wait til its under $40. Prepaying for something not due out for another year is just a.. bad idea. lol By the time it's released, you'd probably forget about it. lol I would have a good chance of it. haha.

Hopefully after a bit, it will get released through other retailers like steam. Also, can't wait for an in game trailer instead of the concept art.

[CrazyTeaPot]

Oh, it *requires* Origin?

Well, I'm out. That's one game I won't ever be playing, unless it's on a friends PC who has that crap already installed.

EA can go die in a fire. I don't trust you and I sure in the hell don't trust Origin. And I'm not supporting this trend what-so-ever. Steam is it. End of story. You don't need to be in this field and nobody wants you to be in this field. The next thing you know, we're going to have 3 or 4 different clients that we need to have installed on our PC's just so we can play a video game.

And you wonder why so many people pirate... Yeah, that couldn't be because you treat them like crap, could it? It's pretty sad that you can get higher quality products by pirating. They seem to understand that other "official" sources are competition and so they'll respond to that appropriately, but they can't seem to grasp that pirating is really no different at the end of the day and that they need to start offering better products and services in order to compete with it, instead of doing this... Origin only exists to attempt to control piracy. It's not going to work. All you've done is annoy the people who actually bought your damn game while convincing others to stop buying your games. Where is the common sense in all of this??