QuicheFontaine
Member
Sweet merciful Jesus. I can't stop laughing!
SimCity modded so it can be played offline indefinitely + editing of highways
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Sweet merciful Jesus. I can't stop laughing!
This sums it up nicely!
And I have to say that even just comparing the launches directly in terms of server functionality: D3 was better. I could at least play D3 in the first few days late night/early morning. Couldn't do that with SimCity. And I despise D3...
I read that link, "Opinion: SimCity teething problems only help make EA better at online (by Michael French)"
Wow.
Online teething problems. From EA. In 2013. And it's spun as a "learning experience."
Wow! It's like I'm living in a brave-new world! Broadband! On-line gaming! I can't wait for the infrastructure to improve to allow this. Excuse me while I watch Netflix in HD at the same moment tens of millions of others do...
The future really is 2007 isn't it?
http://www.steampowered.com/status/ep2/ep2_stats.php
What a fucking joke.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Haha Parfitt again.
Of all "games journalism lol" he and MVC are truly the bottom of the fucking barrel.
I was right that he declared "open war" on gamers last month.
Of all "games journalism lol" he and MVC are truly the bottom of the fucking barrel.
I was right that he declared "open war" on gamers last month.
To be clear, the article was written by Michael French. Parfitt endorses it, obviously.
Air Zombie Meat
Member
Parfitt makes Gies look like a level headed guy.
What with stuttering issues that are in the game since beta, so for more than 1.5 year? They claimed that they will fix them in at least by launch and then in patches.
Itemization and scaling is broken for loot-based game too. There was tons of broken features on launch and after launch, like AH, desync etc.
Well to be fair EA has won in that they got a shitload of people's money and they ain't giving it back. Curious to see sales number on this thing honestly, hope it didn't do too well.
;_;
EA won.
How all this has affected me:
1. I used to like Gies on RebelFM. But I haven't listened to an episode in over a year (Comedy button is better). Now Aegies is a tool to me.
2. RPS has earned a reader
3. MCV UK is trash
4. I'm not going to buy Sim City. Not that I wanted to, but the hype was getting to me.
1. I used to like Gies on RebelFM. But I haven't listened to an episode in over a year (Comedy button is better). Now Aegies is a tool to me.
2. RPS has earned a reader
3. MCV UK is trash
4. I'm not going to buy Sim City. Not that I wanted to, but the hype was getting to me.
It's doing gangbusters. It's still the second best selling PC game on Amazon after Heart of the Swarm.
schragnasher
Neo Member
I don't think this man knows what was really going on with the servers...
Palette Swap
Member
Please proceed, Governor.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
It's not a news outlet for gamers, it's aimed at retail and industry folks. Trade journal, doesn't excuse how shit Parfitt is though when he panders to his buddies in the industry.
BolognaSoup
Member
They'd basically be firing themselves. It's not like Riccitiello would have been up there at the top saying "No no no don't launch it this way!" and Maxis and PR all said "No, screw you! We're in this 100%!"
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
It will sell massively. It's still a PR disaster though. This kind of thing doesn't affect the game in question so much as it affects future games.
Diablo 3 still sold a bajillion copies, but you can bet Blizzard will be much more accommodating about D4 online policies--and it will still probably not sell as much.
Like a broken record, man.... you sound much better when you talk about things you love, not actively and vehemently despise.
Like a broken record, man.... you sound much better when you talk about things you love, not actively and vehemently despise.
Its not like thats not true.
Again, i dont think Diablo 3 is bad game, its great game when look at it as an action rpg, its just awful loot-based game and wont change this opinion
, but launch was horrible and management after launch was too. Fixing performance issues should be crucial and was not. I dont know even why, when Starcraft 2 actually got performance fixes and is running great.endresults
Member
Shit, I just labeled it that to throw the wife off the scent.
What I think is that EA will have a hard time to sell their next Sim City game to the fans. I can imagine that even the casual gamers were displeased by the launch.
NullPointer
Member
"We've learned from our previous launch problems, and it was our number one priority with this game so you can be assured that blah blah blah"
Wow, the way that the entire media and industry are responding to this in lock step is just scary. It is just so unbelievably anti consumer and out of touch.
I really feel like most of the industry is right on the verge of complete failure, the big publishers keep screwing the consumer and then they and the media act like they did the right thing while celebrating these failures.
This is no way to run a sustainable business.
I really feel like most of the industry is right on the verge of complete failure, the big publishers keep screwing the consumer and then they and the media act like they did the right thing while celebrating these failures.
This is no way to run a sustainable business.
What the hell am i reading? Is this done by a 5 year old? Damn never thought this kinda 'journalism' hitting new hights.
EmCeeGramr
Member
So the new defenses from various types are: "People don't like it just because it's different from the older games" and "Cities have to work together in a region, which needs online connectivity."
The first is lazy, the second laughable.
The first is lazy, the second laughable.
Professor Beef
Banned
Gies, French, and Parfitt make me ashamed to be a journalism major.
The second isn't even true anyhow. There's no reason a lone player can't maintain an entire region by themselves, and the benefits of having other players only make the game slightly easier.
Deified Data
Banned
Great news for the people who have been waiting to play.
If he is 'hated' in the industry, well that is just sad and speaks volumes of what game companies expect out of game journos.
It's a terrible shame too because it's an industry with a hell of a range of talents in it. Inevitably these people are taken under when the ship eventually sinks.
It's weird also to see someone like Bradshaw sounding like a corporate drone. How people like that can defend this mess is beyond me; I don't remember Maxis being particularly anti-consumer back in the days of the original The Sims and Simcity 3000. I'll lay off her though because clearly it's EA pulling the strings.
Nobody asked for this game, just like nobody asked for the dumbed down, linear minigame collection that was the final version of Spore. Nice to see they charge full game price for addons to The Sims 3 too. EA has pretty much hijacked Maxis and destroyed any respect I had for them. I stuck by them for well over a decade too.
Its ok. I don't think any of them were journalism majors. They just spend their free time embarassing the profession. Parfit was a theatre major (lol so fitting) and Gies was an art major. So basically for both of them it was either write about video games or sell lattes at Starbucks.
Agreed but it gets fishy when
A) He spends over a month attacking people who don't like ME3's ending, even cherry picking the few idiots who liked it to record an insane podcast that doesn't contain one intelligent statement defending it.
B) Acts as if Deadspace3's microtransactions aren't gross.
C) Treats sim city as if it is some wounded puppy needing twitter knights to shield it from criticism.
EAX3 in a row.
Arthur Goose is basically Baghdad Bob for EA.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I'm still deciding what's more funny.
EA fucking up big time SimCity release or the whole PR offensive commanded by the journalists which mouths and pens are just big companies tools.
EA fucking up big time SimCity release or the whole PR offensive commanded by the journalists which mouths and pens are just big companies tools.
Palette Swap
Member
While I agree about the talent, I think we should really stop pretending all these people are somehow working under duress and are an entirely separate body of EA. I'd like the "poor devs vs evil suits" narrative but honestly, it's them choosing to work for assholes. I'm not saying these are individually bad people or anything like that and I'll be sorry for them the day EA lays them off but this failure of a game is theirs.
CadetMahoney
Member
haha. EA and gaming journalists really are. . .
Professor Beef
Banned
...oh god, that's fucking awful.
They're the same site that tried to demonize DMC fans for not buying a game they didn't want.
I wouldn't take MCV remotely serious.
oneils
Member
Yeah, its a trade magazine. It is not a magazine for enthusiasts.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Any guess if/when Maxis responds to this?
Ignore it/announce something(cheetah mode is back and we've thrown in a free New York city!)to deflect attention.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
The only EA IP's that even interest me are Mirrors Edge and Battlefield. After this whole situation I will most likely wait until BF4 is about $5 just to play the SP (not a fan of MP) and I assume that EA will fuck up Mirrors Edge 2 big time so needless to say I am done with them.
I think it's just that game journalists aren't as uh, dramatic, towards these things as we are. You can accuse Giantbomb of having the same positions and making excuses for EA as well.
fabricated backlash
Member
Online teething problems? Are you fucking kidding me? Nintendo gets torn apart (rightfully so) for lagging behind, but EA delivering a flat out broken game, with the worst DRM imaginable, and these blithering idiots have the nerve to call this anything but a complete and utter disgrace?
Despicable.
Despicable.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Credibility destroyed.
Like a broken record, man.... you sound much better when you talk about things you love, not actively and vehemently despise.
Look who is talking... dude who always remind other people that they should stop speaking bad about D3.
Diablo 3 is a bad game. They got almost everything wrong beside combat animations (not combat mechanics because it is also broken).
On actual thread subject.
Why people are ganging on Arthur ? He was/is just wrong same as many people on NeoGaf on every other subject. MetalMurphy was/is also trying to defend it in same way as Arthur but as gafer i won't laugh at him because he has his own opinion (no mater how far from truth is).
He probably was told by Maxis about it same as rest of us where we believed game logic was on servers.
Sorry KRRT Maxis/EA told many times in interviews that always online was because they need to run "advanced" simulation on their servers. People don't fallow all articles and they assume every article states truth. So most o