SimCity needs Internet connection to save the game

#4484245

NAMEk

2012-12-21 09:18

This what makes me not to buy games.

#4484307

Sash

2012-12-21 11:31

I might get another warning for this but i don't care.. RIP Sim City. **** YOU EA, **** YOU VERY MUCH!

#4484327

H83

2012-12-21 12:03

Well i guess i wont buy the new SimCity after all... Too bad, i was really looking forward for this game...

#4484335

snorge

2012-12-21 12:12

What kind of pc gamer doesn't have a fairly stable internet connection in the first place?

#4484387

Silent_Takedown

2012-12-21 13:32

Well that's a terrible idea.

#4484390

nhlkoho

2012-12-21 13:34

What kind of pc gamer doesn't have a fairly stable internet connection in the first place?

That's what I'm wondering. Everyone is complaining about this but in reality it won't affect any of you.

#4484391

PhazeDelta1

2012-12-21 13:37

My life will officially be over with when this game gets released. 😀

#4484396

iancook221188

2012-12-21 13:43

this is why i don't play many new game any more im no longer going to buy this, **** off EA

#4484399

Denial

2012-12-21 13:47

That's what I'm wondering. Everyone is complaining about this but in reality it won't affect any of you.

Why? What if I want to play on my laptop while traveling? What happens in a few years when they shut down the servers, like "The Saboteur" which rendered the entire game useless? What then? Plus there are tons of people here who talk about how their ISP's have data caps, which this just helps reach. It's bull****. It does absolutely nothing other then be another barrier I have to face when I go to play a game. I don't want it and I'm not going to play the game for it. Even if a pirated version comes out, I don't want to even give them an excuse in the future, I just don't want to deal with that bull****.

#4484405

russ1

2012-12-21 13:53

What kind of pc gamer doesn't have a fairly stable internet connection in the first place?

Most countries outside the western world.

#4484408

daffy101

2012-12-21 13:59

If the game is decent then yes i will buy it. I am not concerned if you need a permanent internet connection, you need one for MMO's so why not this? If it limits pirating and convinces EA its worth doing lets hope they do it with all new games if it gives us better games.

#4484421

Denial

2012-12-21 14:09

If the game is decent then yes i will buy it. I am not concerned if you need a permanent internet connection, you need one for MMO's so why not this? If it limits pirating and convinces EA its worth doing lets hope they do it with all new games if it gives us better games.

You seriously don't see the difference between an MMO and SimCity? You need one for MMO's because it's integral to the game design. Sim City has and should always be a single player game. If it has a multiplayer component, then obviously it's going to need an internet connection for that. But why is it required for me to build my city by myself? It doesn't limit pirating, all it does is create bull**** for me, someone who buys the game. The whole thing is retarded, their company just got

http://www.edge-online.com/news/ea-delisted-from-nasdaq-100-activision-blizzard-last-remaining-game-company/

from the NASDAQ 100. Their growth is going backwards. Their profits have been garbage. And yet they still insist on going against their own customers. There is a reason why this happened: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14umm1/we_are_the_simcity_dev_team_from_maxis_amaa/c7gnxdy

#4484423

TheDeeGee

2012-12-21 14:11

Maxis is the new Ubisoft?

#4484425

Denial

2012-12-21 14:13

Maxis is the new Ubisoft?

You mean EA is the new EA? EA owns Maxis and has for like years now.

#4484438

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2012-12-21 14:41

Yes its really crap, perhaps they will reconcider and make it a cloud save or something. Dont know if people werent expecting to play this game in single player mode though since its built for multiplayer.

#4484451

Loobyluggs

2012-12-21 15:00

What happens if you're in the middle of a game and your internet genuinely drops a packet or two. Now, I've got a pretty good connection less than 600 meters to the POP, but for some reason I get the occasional period of packet loss or even internet dropping out completely for more than a second. It's rare, but still, it's there - so if I'm playing SimCity and am in the middle of a session, the game will kick me out without warning and without saving the game? Glad I still have SimCity2000 - oddly enough, I kinda still annoys me to this day that I need to keep the CD in the CD Drive to play it. Always found it funny when I'd play SimCity2000 last thing at night and then boot the PC the next day only to have the message on the screen that says 'the CD in the CD Drive is not bootable media, you idiot - L2Boot'

#4484479

mackintosh

2012-12-21 15:23

Welp, there goes my preorder. Thanks EA, but no thanks. I've had my share of horrid experiences with Ubisoft, whose servers kept on dropping connections (that's right their servers, not my ISP), which in turn ruined all the fun of playing. I refuse to buy games with such restrictions on principle. I love Simcity, it was the first game I ever bought for my PC all the way back in 1989 and have owned every iteration since, but this bs is just too much for this old fart to handle.

#4484493

nhlkoho

2012-12-21 15:40

What happens if you're in the middle of a game and your internet genuinely drops a packet or two. Now, I've got a pretty good connection less than 600 meters to the POP, but for some reason I get the occasional period of packet loss or even internet dropping out completely for more than a second. It's rare, but still, it's there - so if I'm playing SimCity and am in the middle of a session, the game will kick me out without warning and without saving the game? Glad I still have SimCity2000 - oddly enough, I kinda still annoys me to this day that I need to keep the CD in the CD Drive to play it. Always found it funny when I'd play SimCity2000 last thing at night and then boot the PC the next day only to have the message on the screen that says 'the CD in the CD Drive is not bootable media, you idiot - L2Boot'

They've already said that occasional internet drops will not affect the game.

#4484498

bobdude

2012-12-21 15:47

cant wait to play been looking forward to this game

#4484502

Sash

2012-12-21 15:50

What kind of pc gamer doesn't have a fairly stable internet connection in the first place?

Yea, wait when their servers are down and try to play your beloved city then