BolognaSoup
Member
Valve should be throwing Sim City 4 all over the front of their store page this week.
Sim City is now down, the maintenance message is amazing
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It means exactly what it says. You can request a refund, but EA being the frauds they are will just tell you where to go.
BigBadShamoo
Banned
I know I'm not the only one that laughed reading that sim city maintenance message. Lol. Shits too funny.
Well yeah thats why they don't just build 100 servers for launch day. Because in 2 weeks only 10 of those servers will being used. Still sucks though.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
You know, I'm not a huge fan of EA but I feel so bad for those customer service people. People getting all angry at them for some policy they have no control over.
TheNatural
My Member!
Does it say in the TOS, "Origin is a piece of shit, we make no guarantees if it ever works with any games you get through us, otherwise we forward you to Valve."
I could imagine EA's defense to such an action be along those lines. "We're such a shit company and you knew it, but you still bought from us! No soup for you!"
Neuromancer
Member
You could do a lot worse.
BolognaSoup
Member
You can easily fill your plot of land in 1 hour and be fresh out of room, so at least that won't be "fixed" anytime soon and probably never.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah, that should pretty much ensure a huge amount of sales.
But would EA allow that?
vagabondarts
Member
EA's laughable policies were red flags oh... About the time Dragon Age and mass Effect 2 launched.
I experienced them firsthand and they are the last EA games I will ever buy.
Glad to see more people are being exposed to their anti consumer bs. Hope more folks vote with their wallets and stop supporting this kind of garbage.
I experienced them firsthand and they are the last EA games I will ever buy.
Glad to see more people are being exposed to their anti consumer bs. Hope more folks vote with their wallets and stop supporting this kind of garbage.
Posted?
I wonder what will Peter Moore say about this.
MMO is poor choice for argument. It requires servers. Big ones. So that you can play online with thousands. Sim City requires you connect just to play by yourself. Stupid.
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I remember some sites posting that EA is offering refunds, is that not true? Sucks ass if they really wont refund people for this shit.
Yeah people should stick it to EA by buying a different EA game!
Uno Venova
Banned
Can't wait for digital the future
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It would probably be in their best interest not to burn bridges with potential partners.
Probably poor communication among their customer service.
I'm under the assumption when companies like Valve or Amazon offer refunds, they take the loss. The publisher still gets paid for the sale.
I don't know if they have built any servers for this. Ever since the game has been out I am having trouble logging in or using any of the online features of my Sims 3 games. Are they sharing servers or something; is anyone else having problems logging into Sims 3?
Normally takes a minute to sign in, and the past few days it has taken ~10 minutes just to sign into my account to actually start the game, let alone trying to upload sims for simport.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Keep poisoning that well, EA. You'll soon realise you're drinking from it too.
You're so God damned lovably English.
partyphone
Banned
You mean the one that has already stopped putting their games on Steam?
The GOG Sim city thing was funny lol.
fatty
Member
You have too many servers.
You should remove some to save on maintenance.
Don't get the reference, can anyone help me with it?
They still have past games on Steam, and they still publish games on Steam.
Crysis 2 and Sims 3 came to Steam fairly recently.
Its from SimCity 2000.
You have little city managers popping up every once in a while to help you with your city.
One common one is 'you have too many roads, you should remove some to save on maintenance'
That was the last SimCity game I played and I still remember that guy and his pop ups.
TheNatural
My Member!
Crysis 2 is EA Partners (so is Alice: MR), and Sims 3 is too much aimed at the broader market to neglect Steam.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Yup. I've actually been told all sorts of nasty shit in my experience over things I had no control over and you have to remain calm and friendly. So yeah, the CS people are pretty much doing their job but at the same time there's no way I can blame anyone out there for being enraged over this. My suggestion is to anyone calling or writing in, if you don't get your demands met for whatever it may be (refund, etc), escalate it. Ask to speak to a supervisor/team leader/OM whatever. Once you've asked the CS for this, more than likely they will have to transfer you. You still may not get anywhere, but at least you'll be talking to someone with a bit more experience and maybe power.
NFS is actually a great game, and it doesn't suffer from this kind of horseshit.
Why would you do that?
Member
Pretty sure that's one of Sim City 2000's advisors. Now that I think about it, I'm almost 100% certain one of them always badgers you about having too many roads.
(Sim City 4 does the same thing. Streets are always endangered.
)krameriffic
Member
Instead, much like D3, the much larger and more important complaints about the core game itself will overtake it.
its an old joke from cities XL
partyphone
Banned
Table scraps! No Dead Space 3. No Mass Effect 3. Still no Syndicate. Will never see Battlefield 3. I'd be surprised if it got Plants vs Zombies 2.
Depends on how long you wait. They might have shut the servers down.
Professor Beef
Banned
I remember him screaming at me when I cut the subway budget, despite my city not having a single subway track.
It goes back to ps2 and xbox era with online support ending for previous season's sports games. The signs have been around about a decade.
Bullshit. I haven't bought an EA game in nearly 4 or maybe 5 years.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
99% huh?
Such as small city size, until they remedy that with a $15 dollar DLC pack to increase the space you can build.
Neuromancer
Member
No. That's absurd. I only got this because my love for SimCity outweighs my complete disdain for EA. I generally avoid EA developed products like the plague.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Didn't EA already do that with Origin-exclusivity?
VibratingDonkey
Member
I don't get how this works. When software becomes downloadable you suddenly don't have the right to have a faulty copy repaired, replaced, refunded or otherwise compensated for because...?
Zero-Crescent
Member
According to the PC Gamer article, Origin's community manager originally said that people could seek refunds if they wished. Of course, if you look at the source thread now, you'll see that the community manager edited his post today to sound much more non-committal.
Original post (still up in Google's cache):
Edited post: