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I hate EA and Maxis

Juiposa

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So I had preordered SimCity. It looked to be a great game. The concept of it and the improvements over SimCity 4 looked huge.

Then came Tuesday. I went to GameStop and got my copy. Came home. Installed. Did the launch updates. And the game doesn't work.

Why you may ask? SimCity is one of those asshole games that require a permanent Internet connection, and as such, you play on your respective server and everything saves to it.

BUT THE ****ING SERVERS DON'T WORK. THEY ARE BROKEN.

I can't connect half the goddamned time! I spent over an hour yesterday just trying to get into the game! Once I did, I could save ****ing squat as I kept losing connection to the servers. This problems persists to today.

To solve the issue, EA and Maxis have disabled what they called "non essential" features to lighten the load on their ****ty servers. By "non essential," they meant most of the important functionality of the game.


They've dropped the ball. The game itself is fantastic. One of the best city builders I've ever played.

But this asinine servers are crippling. They render the game unplayable most of the time.

tl;dr The servers are garbage and cripple any playability. Stay away. Do not buy. It's bull****.
 


Just a small sample of my woes.


Yes this is me.
 
Yeah...that sucks.

I know it no consolation, but they'll fix it...eventually.

I feel your pain.
 
Hmm...sounds remarkably similar to the release of Diablo III. I'll bet that in a couple of days they have it all worked out.
 
Juiposa said:
So I had preordered SimCity. It looked to be a great game. The concept of it and the improvements over SimCity 4 looked huge.

Then came Tuesday. I went to GameStop and got my copy. Came home. Installed. Did the launch updates. And the game doesn't work.

Why you may ask? SimCity is one of those asshole games that require a permanent Internet connection, and as such, you play on your respective server and everything saves to it.

BUT THE ****ING SERVERS DON'T WORK. THEY ARE BROKEN.

I can't connect half the goddamned time! I spent over an hour yesterday just trying to get into the game! Once I did, I could save ****ing squat as I kept losing connection to the servers. This problems persists to today.

To solve the issue, EA and Maxis have disabled what they called "non essential" features to lighten the load on their ****ty servers. By "non essential," they meant most of the important functionality of the game.


They've dropped the ball. The game itself is fantastic. One of the best city builders I've ever played.

But this asinine servers are crippling. They render the game unplayable most of the time.

tl;dr The servers are garbage and cripple any playability. Stay away. Do not buy. It's bull****.
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What are you going to do, not buy EA games in the future? EA Games laughs at you
 
EA games are the Borg of gaming--resistance is futile.
 
Juiposa said:
So I had preordered SimCity. It looked to be a great game. The concept of it and the improvements over SimCity 4 looked huge.

Then came Tuesday. I went to GameStop and got my copy. Came home. Installed. Did the launch updates. And the game doesn't work.

Why you may ask? SimCity is one of those asshole games that require a permanent Internet connection, and as such, you play on your respective server and everything saves to it.

BUT THE ****ING SERVERS DON'T WORK. THEY ARE BROKEN.

I can't connect half the goddamned time! I spent over an hour yesterday just trying to get into the game! Once I did, I could save ****ing squat as I kept losing connection to the servers. This problems persists to today.

To solve the issue, EA and Maxis have disabled what they called "non essential" features to lighten the load on their ****ty servers. By "non essential," they meant most of the important functionality of the game.


They've dropped the ball. The game itself is fantastic. One of the best city builders I've ever played.

But this asinine servers are crippling. They render the game unplayable most of the time.

tl;dr The servers are garbage and cripple any playability. Stay away. Do not buy. It's bull****.
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I rather hate required connections, because after at best a decade said servers are always shut down, and now your game doesn't work anymore (unless you hack it if possible.)

I've got a PC game collection of > 200 going all the way back to Doom II on CDROM for MS DoS. I often pick up and relive a classic, it bothers me that I have an increasing number of games I know I wont be able to play 15 years from now. Its like when an MMO shuts down its servers, all you spent on the game/expansions/monthly fees are just wasted. At least allow for a legal emulated server or release a patch that allows for offline play.
 
Sometimes it feels strangely good, to have no idea what people are talking about...
 
EA is that rare breed of company that I have absolutely no problem laying the "evil corporation" moniker upon.

They only care about profits, and they're not even trying to hide it. They deliberately screw over the consumer every chance they get, completely disregard the opinions of the fans of their games, and will seemingly break proven gaming conventions that work perfectly fine in favor of broken and over-complicated price gouging measures on a whim.

They apparently decided that they were too greedy to sell their games over Steam like everyone else, so they made their own client service (which barely works); meaning that I now have to keep two seperate useless memory hogging programs on my PC if I want to be able to play the latest games. They've also decided out of the blue that they're going to kill the Dead Space series (a commercial and critical darling of the survival horror genre with legions of devoted fans) if 3's sales don't meet some ridiculous arbitrary quota that the last two games combined couldn't meet. God knows that they'll still churn out a new craptastically mediocre MMO every six months like clockwork though. :roll:

Seriously, **** EA. They have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.
 
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Juiposa said:
So I had preordered SimCity. It looked to be a great game. The concept of it and the improvements over SimCity 4 looked huge.

Then came Tuesday. I went to GameStop and got my copy. Came home. Installed. Did the launch updates. And the game doesn't work.

Why you may ask? SimCity is one of those asshole games that require a permanent Internet connection, and as such, you play on your respective server and everything saves to it.

BUT THE ****ING SERVERS DON'T WORK. THEY ARE BROKEN.

I can't connect half the goddamned time! I spent over an hour yesterday just trying to get into the game! Once I did, I could save ****ing squat as I kept losing connection to the servers. This problems persists to today.

To solve the issue, EA and Maxis have disabled what they called "non essential" features to lighten the load on their ****ty servers. By "non essential," they meant most of the important functionality of the game.


They've dropped the ball. The game itself is fantastic. One of the best city builders I've ever played.

But this asinine servers are crippling. They render the game unplayable most of the time.

tl;dr The servers are garbage and cripple any playability. Stay away. Do not buy. It's bull****.
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Oh my giant blue head!


WTF, Dude - it's a goddamned video game you're trying to play online. . .Don't kill yourself over it - or commit a murder or some ****.

I don't know - go out side, mow the lawn or dig some holes or some **** instead.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Oh my giant blue head!


WTF, Dude - it's a goddamned video game you're trying to play online. . .Don't kill yourself over it - or commit a murder or some ****.

I don't know - go out side, mow the lawn or dig some holes or some **** instead.
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It's not really that ridiculous. It's roughly the equivalent of having your cable provider inform you that you will no longer be able to receive signal without an internet connection run off of their special network, and then having the network not even work, or only work 50% of the time.

If you ask for a refund, you'd better believe that they'll tell you to "go fly a kite" too.

Believe me, there are a lot of reasons to be pissed off with EA's business model.
 
Lachean said:
I rather hate required connections, because after at best a decade said servers are always shut down, and now your game doesn't work anymore (unless you hack it if possible.)

I've got a PC game collection of > 200 going all the way back to Doom II on CDROM for MS DoS. I often pick up and relive a classic, it bothers me that I have an increasing number of games I know I wont be able to play 15 years from now. Its like when an MMO shuts down its servers, all you spent on the game/expansions/monthly fees are just wasted. At least allow for a legal emulated server or release a patch that allows for offline play.
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Out of curiosity, what do you use to play some of those older games on? I can get the original Diablo to play on W7 but Myst and a few others won't work.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Oh my giant blue head!


WTF, Dude - it's a goddamned video game you're trying to play online. . .Don't kill yourself over it - or commit a murder or some ****.

I don't know - go out side, mow the lawn or dig some holes or some **** instead.
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So let's say you paid 60 bucks for a product. It does not work. Are you not going to be pissed?

Oh, and hint: It is not an online game, he is trying to play a single player game. If the only problen was he could not do the online parts of the game he probably would not be so angry. However, because of the way they handled the anti-piracy measures, he cannot play that single player portion through no fault of his own, and despite the fact that less than a week before launch Maxis stated they where ready for the heavy server load at release and woulkd not have the same problems as Diablo.

And seriously, stop looking down on others for having different hobbies than you. Is he making fun of your ****ing hobbies? Then why are you making light of his desire to enjoy his?
 
Redress said:
So let's say you paid 60 bucks for a product. It does not work. Are you not going to be pissed?

Oh, and hint: It is not an online game, he is trying to play a single player game. If the only problen was he could not do the online parts of the game he probably would not be so angry. However, because of the way they handled the anti-piracy measures, he cannot play that single player portion through no fault of his own, and despite the fact that less than a week before launch Maxis stated they where ready for the heavy server load at release and woulkd not have the same problems as Diablo.

And seriously, stop looking down on others for having different hobbies than you. Is he making fun of your ****ing hobbies? Then why are you making light of his desire to enjoy his?
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LOL - heavens Redress . . . how'd you jump to all those conclusions, there. I game - all the time . . . get pissed? Take a break . . . sort it out *calmly* on the phone with customer service, etc.

Common sense.

It IS just a game - doesn't matter what it costs - and seeing as how it IS technology it WILL have issues.

If it's not sorted out - he can get a refund . . . and wait until they work out the kinks, etc.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
LOL - heavens Redress . . . how'd you jump to all those conclusions, there. I game - all the time . . . get pissed? Take a break . . . sort it out *calmly* on the phone with customer service, etc.

Common sense.

It IS just a game - doesn't matter what it costs - and seeing as how it IS technology it WILL have issues.
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The problem isn't really the technology so much as the fact that EA just generally doesn't give a flying **** about its consumers. They churn out inferior products en masse for inflated prices, and then turn around and act like it's the customer's fault when they complain.
 
Gathomas88 said:
The problem isn't really the technology so much as the fact that EA just generally doesn't give a flying **** about its consumers. They churn out inferior products en masse for inflated prices, and then turn around and act like it's the customer's fault when they complain.
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I haven't had any problems that I couldn't sort out with my lineage of sim playing. My experiences don't confer with his.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
I haven't had any problems that I couldn't sort out with my lineage of sim playing. My experiences don't confer with his.
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The required internet connection trip is something that they've only recently started doing.

However, even with their older games, you're going to have a bitch of a time getting a refund for a defective product, and their customer support is virtually non-existent. They've even been known to ban people who complain from their web forums.
 
Gathomas88 said:
The required internet connection trip is something that they've only recently started doing.

However, even with their older games, you're going to have a bitch of a time getting a refund for a defective product, and their customer support is virtually non-existent. They've even been known to ban people who complain from their web forums.
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Ah - well - if this is the case then contact/complaints and issues should be documented and a complaint filed with the BBB.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
LOL - heavens Redress . . . how'd you jump to all those conclusions, there. I game - all the time . . . get pissed? Take a break . . . sort it out *calmly* on the phone with customer service, etc.

Common sense.

It IS just a game - doesn't matter what it costs - and seeing as how it IS technology it WILL have issues.

If it's not sorted out - he can get a refund . . . and wait until they work out the kinks, etc.
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There's no way in hell anyone's getting a refund. It doesn't work that way.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
If it's not sorted out - he can get a refund . . . and wait until they work out the kinks, etc.
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No I can't. I've called. They proverbially told me to go **** myself.
 
Lutherf said:
Out of curiosity, what do you use to play some of those older games on? I can get the original Diablo to play on W7 but Myst and a few others won't work.
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My windows 7 PC for most, for those that cannot like Final Fantasy 7 I have an old laptop for w/ Windows ME. Although I have the discs for all the old ID software FPS games I also have them all on Steam so they're W7 compatible.
 
Lachean said:
My windows 7 PC for most, for those that cannot like Final Fantasy 7 I have an old laptop for w/ Windows ME. Although I have the discs for all the old ID software FPS games I also have them all on Steam so they're W7 compatible.
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Yeah, I bought Doom on Steam and it runs just fine but Bioshock won't run on my home PC though it will on my work setup which only has the integrated graphics.
 
Yeah. Well, I'm glad I didn't buy it. I smelled problems for some time now with the new Sim City. I would have loved to be wrong...
 
Redress said:
One of the main metrics for a games success these days is the Metacritic user score. Project heads tend to have their bonuses and continued employment contingent on achieving a certain user score. Let's look at the Metacritic page for Simcity: SimCity for PC Reviews - Metacritic
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Yeah, but it won't be the guys who insisted on these drm measures getting punished - it'll probably be the guys who built the perfectly good game underneath.
 
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