The Gaming News Thread

[Lemur]

Looks like the new Sim City is exactly as crippled as we expected.

So many news items about this mess, hard to choose one, so instead I'll link to the Google News feed.

[Fragony]

Most issues have been fixed, they are working on it and give buyers a free game as a mea culpa. Have been treated worse.

[Monk]

Looks like the new Sim City is exactly as crippled as we expected.

So many news items about this mess, hard to choose one, so instead I'll link to the Google News feed.

I didn't post anything about this because it's been everywhere, I don't think there's anyone satisfied with how the launch has turned out. It's gotten so bad EA is now limiting game features to lighten the load on their servers. It's a goddamn disaster.

I was involved with a number of the beta versions of Sim City. It really didn't take a fortune teller to predict some of the problems the game was going to have but EA (or Maxis, it was hard to tell) didn't seem too interested in taking feedback in regards to the always on DRM or the city size limits, which have turned out to be the two biggest negatives for the game.

Though, if you would have told me Sim City would have a worse launch than Diablo III, I would have said you're exaggerating. The deed and the damage are done, unfortunately.

[Fragony]

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/0...coming-in-2014

A reboot huh. I can't shake of the feeling that Thief 4 is going to piss me off even more than Thief 3 did. Ah well, I am going to buy a ps4 for it, as I bought an xbox to play Thief 3. I demand HUGE levels with these 8gb of RAM provided with no loading times at all and flawless AI and physics. Deliver.

[Husar]

Looks like the new Sim City is exactly as crippled as we expected.

So many news items about this mess, hard to choose one, so instead I'll link to the Google News feed.

On that note I'd like to share these if you haven't seen them yet:

https://i.imgur.com/rUvSn7L.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZEFfs4q.jpg

http://www.krawall.de/web/Sim_City_/ktopsy/id,64545/

Last one is a german joke (short) review where they rate the graphics and controls of the error messages because they couldn't play the game.