Several reasons, often its cheaper and more importantly (normally) you can preload the game. So you are good to go once the game goes live. Especially with a website known for VGA performance reviews that you see within days after the launch, preloading is handy and a time saver.

But you do understand that you give the opportunity to developers to fail you somehow by making crappy game or like this? After the game is released you can decide whether to buy it or not. I would choose to pay a little more instead of buying crappy or not working game.

I pre-ordered this game also and I like how they stated that the developers were working on the game til release and that's why it was late or whatever is total BS! The build date of the game was Feb 27, stupid excuses.

Well it's on track to being the worst reviewed product on amazon. http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limited-Edition-Pc/dp/B007FTE2VW/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Oh well, I wish it was good because I love simcity.

thanks for letting everyone ser how far a brainwashed EA customer can go defending his game and company. Shamr for some people considering themselves gamers for having this "horse vision" 😉 Ok you are not mad, how about IGN? http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/simcity-burning-a-warning-to-microsoft-sony-and-all-publishers-on-the-dangers-of-always-online-drm Yes, please go on telling me how sim city is so great? "But Sash, you're still a moron, fool, idiot and all other insults i can think of with my small remote control EA brain" O rly? Check out gamespots uk's review: http://www.gamespot.com/simcity/reviews/simcity-review-6405012/?edition=desktop Eurogamer.se gave it a 10 because they played a beta from 1 week prior to launch and also got payed by EA, now the only 10 review is waved all over simcity's website like a victory flag, lol

Yes 110% brainwashed.. 😛uke2: The only other EA games i own are Battlefield series which BF3 i dont like much.. BFBC2 was fun.. But yes they sat me down and waterboarded me till i came here and went against what your saing about the cpu using just 1 processor.. :stewpid: Yes they have had server problems.. Is it a headack. Yes! Am i going to say ill never own a EA product again or will i go on every website and bash them because of it no.. Im mature enough and have enough knowledge to know things happen and sometimes **** doesnt run as smooth as it could.. So please keep on venting and tell me how im brainwashed and how they won me over and puke puke puke some more.. Same **** happened with Diablo 3 and that was by far worse then this! At least i can play simcity whereas diablo i sat for 3 days without being able to log in! In afew more days no one will even remember this.. BTW the game is fun, the cities are a little small. But think about it, you can go and build up to 16 cities and try to manage them all.. I also believe that in the future there i will be new content that will let you "buy" suburb's off your main cities so you can expand..

I'm having a great laugh about all this. It's amazing how a small developer like Bohemia manages to make their launch (a countdown launch no less) go smooth as butter and top the Steam charts, but a giant like EA can't even get their end to run properly on a blockbuster game (yes, I know the load is different, but so are the company sizes). What's more hilarious is when I heard that it lacks basic features like Subways and buildings like zoos. This just reeks of micro-transactions on top of a $60 games, no thanks. The more I read about it the more it looks like a Facebook game that got a standalone download. EDIT: I just noticed that it has 4 (FOUR) Day 0 DLC's that cost over $20 extra. Oh hell no.

There are trains in the game. I built one yesterday

There are trains in the game. I built one yesterday

There aren't subways, only streetcars. Also, I laughed so hard when I saw the 1 star review on amazon with 1,200 reviews. Game flopped so hard.

Now I'm worried about Crysis 3.

I laughed so hard when I saw the 1 star review on amazon with 1,200 reviews. Game flopped so hard.

next time i go to the toilet to take a dump i'll think of this game. http://i.imgur.com/l2uSyVW.jpg

So glad I decided not to buy this game...guess I'll fire up Sim City 3000. 😀

Man I remember the D3 Launch it was horrendous and the same thing happened here with Sim City 2013. Pretty much D3 had the same kind of people asking for a refund. I was kind of interested in this game as a fan of Sim City but now I'm totally disinterested. I wonder if EA/Maxis can Iron their server issues in a month like Blizzard did with D3. Im not surprised that this happened.

http://f.asset.soup.io/asset/4113/6143_da38.jpeg just to add...this is how it looks like 🙂

I find the game lots of fun. 🙂

http://f.asset.soup.io/asset/4113/6143_da38.jpeg just to add...this is how it looks like 🙂

that pretty much sums simcity Oh man, this game is ruined, since EA will never make it offline, well maybe after they released 10 expansions and 20 DLC, maybe maxis will make it offline, and say: oh btw we are shutting down the servers and since your cities are saved there, we will delete all your cities, so you can start fresh! :trollface: speaking of trolls, i just realized, i can have fun with this game and play it, the same way that the developers made it, by asking to join a region and then troll it by making dirty industry and crimes, and then ask people hey, i can sell you electricity, i have a nuclear power plant... a couple of days later, everyone loves my industrial city, i am making oil, power, etc.. SUDDENLY NUCLEAR MELTDOWN! hahaha yea that pretty much sums up how you can play this game, treat the community the same way Maxis treats their fans! im gonna buy it later and do just that 🙂

This guy is feeling a mite pi$$ed off as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAVadoMwzA

Here is my non-biased review After playing the game for at least 20 hours now i can say that most of the server problems are fixed,there is still a few hiccups but nothing like it was at launch. The multiplayer is fun for me because my roomate also got the game so we actually work with each other in regions making specific style cities. The game itself is fun and they did improve on a few things that were annoying (to me) from the previous games like not having to add water lines or power lines anymore. Now my biggest gripes are that 1. The map size is defiantly too small, i filled up the entire map within a few hours and had 230,000 population. But there is some fun to it being small because the game turns in to what are do i need to destroy for more water or power, or should i remove that industry to add more residential. It really does add a challenge and its just not who can make the biggest city. If the map size was doubled then it would be perfect IMO. My second gripe is that alot of the game is virtulized and doesn't really take potential of local hardware i.e my ssd. I know that they did this to cater to more lower end pc's but i wish they gave some option to run it in the cloud or locally. I knew something was fishy when the origin download was only 200mb. All in all the game is still fun but it does have its flaws,but hopefully those will be addressed like the traffic AI, you get gridlock pretty easily no matter how good your roads are laid out. Also i am in no means a EA fanboy, i actually did not want the game at first after playing the beta. But this will defiantly be one of the last EA games i purchase unless they seriously with there insane DRM. EA really did ruin some aspects of the game.

So glad I decided not to buy this game...guess I'll fire up Sim City 3000. 😀

Simcity 4 + Rush Hour expansion ftw 😀

Simcity 4 + Rush Hour expansion ftw 😀

just reinstalled it couple nights ago 😀 also the small map size is so EA can sell you a map-size-expansion-er DLC in a weeks time :-/

Simcity 4 + Rush Hour expansion ftw 😀

I never got around to getting RH what does it do for the game?