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Topic: SimCity is back, gaming is dead, RIP gaming. (Read 211923 times)
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Fabricated
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~Living the Dream~
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This is the best launch.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Hutch
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I'm making a note here.
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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luckton
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HUGE SUCCESS FAIL!
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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koro
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tl;dr: EA press release says "If you really feel that you've been let down, please request a reund from us." Guy attempts to do so, gets told "No refunds. If you contest this, we'll ban you from Origin."  |
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Hutch
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"we'll ban you from Origin."
Oh no, Br'er Fox, pleeeeease don't throw me in that briar patch! |
Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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koro
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Oh, and by the way, if you perform a chargeback on Origin because they wouldn't refund you? They'll ban you anyway.
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Kail
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I'm saying that if you actually dig into releases of each year, you'll see exactly how rare a new idea or series actually was.
If you look exclusively at AAA titles, maybe, but there's still tons of small studio or indie releases with new franchises. It's just big money that's hesitant to roll the dice with an untested IP. |
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jakonovski
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I have graduated to a 20 minute queue. 12 minutes left. Any bets?
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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I bet you could spend your time more wisely.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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jakonovski
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Network error.  fake edit: I'm actually watching Giant Bomb videos and sipping on coffee, not expecting Sim City to work for at least a week. |
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Phildo
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What's kind of funny is that I know numerous people (at least 5) who went to Full Sail...none of them work on games, though at least some of them work in other programming fields.
School always seemed like a massively-overpriced mill school to me, like a glorified ITT Tech or something.
It absolutely is, although they let you play with some neat toys while you're there. |
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Sir T
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Wat? Are you trying to say there's been no original, great games in the last 5 years?
I can't really think of any besides Minecraft and Portal. Psychonaughts sprang immediately to mind. But that was in 2005 and no-one bought it because it was original and new. PS I hate gamers. Arkham Asylum I suppose counts as somewhat original. |
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2013, 12:11:02 PM by Sir T »
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Mithas
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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On the Amazon detail page: Important Note on "SimCity" Many customers are having issues connecting to the "SimCity" servers. EA is actively working to resolve these issues, but at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed. Please visit https://help.ea.com/en/simcity/simcity for more information. That's almost a PSA warning  |
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luckton
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 Important Note on "SimCity" Many customers are having issues connecting to the "SimCity" servers. EA is actively working to resolve these issues, but at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed. Please visit https://help.ea.com/en/simcity/simcity for more information. Yessss...let the retailers start swinging the axe, and that miracle patch will get here slightly quicker 
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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That literally just happened. And that wasn't done lightly. Edit: clarification, the Buy Box is still up for the physical version. So not totally pulled. |
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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You're here because the FB group reminded you this site existed, yeah? |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Mithas
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I didn't jump into D3 at launch, is this worse? Worst launch of all time?
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Malakili
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I didn't jump into D3 at launch, is this worse? Worst launch of all time?
I'd have to give that title to BRINK. I guess Diablo 3 wasn't a great launch, but I played most of release day with only a few problems. |
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luckton
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I didn't jump into D3 at launch, is this worse? Worst launch of all time?
I dunno, Anarchy Online is still king of the mountain in my book. But then FunCom didn't have an army of stockholders ready to start spilling blood either |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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K9
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I wonder what the "26 Gaming Awards" it apparently won were. |
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Yegolev
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They took a e-mail survey in the marketing division, each positive reply counted as an award.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Phildo
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You're here because the FB group reminded you this site existed, yeah?
Nah, I just haven't felt like posting in a while. I mean, I found out about the FB group from here in the first place. |
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Miasma
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Stopgap Measure
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I have graduated to a 20 minute queue. 12 minutes left. Any bets?
That's not actually a queue by the way, it has no intelligent queue system where the first person in is the first person to get a spot. That just means it will try to connect again in twenty minutes. You may as well restart the client over and over until you get in (if the servers are up), (if your city hasn't been deleted) (etc.). |
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2013, 12:46:08 PM by Miasma »
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kildorn
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Oh, and by the way, if you perform a chargeback on Origin because they wouldn't refund you? They'll ban you anyway.
I think that's what he was actually trying to say in the conversational flow. No Refunds, and if you tell your bank to refund it anyways we'll ban you. I believe steam has the same policy towards using chargebacks against them. That tech support dude missed a memo or the EA dude did, because it's pants on head to say "yeah, ask for refunds" followed by "we said you can ask, we didn't say you'd fucking get one. Piss off!" |
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luckton
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I'm gonna take this thread back to '00s!  |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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jakonovski
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2013, 01:11:08 PM by jakonovski »
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luckton
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So EA has removed the fastest game speed, because apparently they log everything and if people play too fast their servers can't keep up.
No, really.
Good god, just Madagascar this shit already. Or start the Fire Sale. |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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kildorn
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SimTrainWreck is kind of fun to watch.
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Modern Angel
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Even by the standards of bad releases this is turning into something singular.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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EA: The Best Ineptitude Money Can Buy.
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Mrbloodworth
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Kinda sad, some friends were thinking of getting this and making a region together, but this is all sorts of silly.
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luckton
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IGN's " liveblog review" of the game is starting to shame the game: More Server Woes Let the record show that even though I've been able to log in to my server of choice (US West 1) without a wait tonight during peak hours (it's now 9pm Pacific time), I am unable to load the cities in my saved region. So I might as well be locked out. A Wasted Day At this rate I'm going to have to change the title of this post to "SimCity Review Without Progress." On the plus side, I never saw a log-in queue, but what I did get was even worse: it let me log in, but I couldn't load a city. I'd either be told it was unavailable at this time or simply hang on the loading screen until I Alt+F4'd out. I did manage to get in for a grand total of about 5 minutes last night, but everything was so broken (social features weren't working at all) that I decided sleep was probably a better use of my time. When I attempted to load my biggest city, here's the choice I was given:  Not much of a choice, is it? Either lose an unspecified amount of progress, or lose all progress. So I picked roll back and braced for the worst... but nothing happened. I couldn't even do that much. Then I tried to load another city, and hung on the loading screen again. All I could do was claim a new city in my region, and I didn't feel like starting from scratch again, especially knowing that my progress would likely be lost. I still have to recommend that you stay away from SimCity for the time being. The latest word is that "non essential services" are being disabled to lighten the load on servers (I can't imagine the leaderboards and achievements were getting a lot of use anyway when many people can't even play), so we'll see how that shakes out today and tomorrow. Update: Holy smokes, EA and I have very different definitions of "non-essential services." Even if I could get in right now – which I can't, because I'm stuck in yet another loading queue – I don't think I even want to play without Cheetah Speed, the fastest time acceleration. There's already quite a bit of waiting around before you can gather enough cash to buy something like your first $30,000 police station or a coal mine, but this will tip the balance of the pacing drastically in favor of tedium. It's now basically futile to play. Also, Amazon.com has pulled SimCity from its download store. To any Europeans reading: just stay away. Save yourself the frustration. Who'd have thought things would get worse before they got better? Emphasis mine. |
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2013, 01:33:01 PM by luckton »
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Paelos
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Even by the standards of bad releases this is turning into something singular.
And spectacular! |
CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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