SimCity is back, gaming is dead, RIP gaming.

[Sjofn]

I don't remember any pet shit at all, in any version of the Sims.

There is a lot of optional advertising shit (like the Prius), but unless the stuff packs are all advertising, all the time (and I know the Sims 2 definitely had stuff packs like that, there was some clothing line stuff pack (H&M I think?) and Ikea had one too), the Sims proper is actually surprisingly advertising-free. Too busy pimping their overpriced Sims Store shit, I think. :P

[Fordel]

Sjofn knows her Sims, trust me.

Take her DA:O play time counter, now multiply it by lets say, 7. 

[rk47]

"I can't overstate how completely evil complexity is, especially in a sandbox game," he said. "Constantly ask yourself: What can I remove from the game?"

Good god.

 

You know what, why have a game at all?  Think of all the complexity you could remove by just not having a game.  Someone call EA, I think I'm the perfect design lead for one of their projects.

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupry

[Sjofn]

Honestly what I get from that quote is the next SimCity is just going to be a screen saver.

[jakonovski]

I don't remember any pet shit at all, in any version of the Sims.

There is a lot of optional advertising shit (like the Prius), but unless the stuff packs are all advertising, all the time (and I know the Sims 2 definitely had stuff packs like that, there was some clothing line stuff pack (H&M I think?) and Ikea had one too), the Sims proper is actually surprisingly advertising-free. Too busy pimping their overpriced Sims Store shit, I think. :P

It was pet food actually, Iams.

Sjofn knows her Sims, trust me.

Take her DA:O play time counter, now multiply it by lets say, 7. 

My GF also knows her Sims, all the way from Sims 1. To question her is madness!

 

[tgr]

My GF also knows her Sims, all the way from Sims 1. To question her is madness!

Surely this isn't limited to only The Sims.

[jakonovski]

My GF also knows her Sims, all the way from Sims 1. To question her is madness!

Surely this isn't limited to only The Sims.

Indeed. 

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In Simcity related news, the Nissan DLC doesn't seem to work. Sims never visit the place.

[tgr]

New DLC: "make sims actually visit the previous DLC we released in an unfinished state: €5"

[Sir T]

I, for one, am completely satisfied with this thread.

[Paelos]

In Simcity related news, the Nissan DLC doesn't seem to work. Sims never visit the place.

That's actually perfectly designed to match reality

[Yegolev]

A quick google will reveal plenty of product placement in games.

[Ingmar]

In Simcity related news, the Nissan DLC doesn't seem to work. Sims never visit the place.

That's actually perfectly designed to match reality

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/03/nissan-leaf-has-best-ever-sales-month.aspx

[Paelos]

They sold 7000 more pathfinders alone than that car, and they cut the price to get it off their hands.

I stand by my point, despite what you see people driving in Cali.

[Merusk]

Per that article, the Leaf was 1.7% of Nissan's total sales last month. That's not exactly impressive and really goes by the monkey's statement.  If you compare it to total auto sales it becomes much, much smaller when Nissan only has 9% of the market.

[Sjofn]

Sjofn knows her Sims, trust me.

Take her DA:O play time counter, now multiply it by lets say, 7. 

My GF also knows her Sims, all the way from Sims 1. To question her is madness!

Yeah, I've played 'em all, that's how we roll, as I'm sure you know. But that stuff your lady is talking about is like the Prius I was talking about. You had to specifically download it to get it into your game. It does not come natively in the game or expansion packs, it isn't automatically better than any equivalent you have in the game (the Prius is nowhere near the best car, for example). Even the Stuff Packs seem to avoid it this go around (the only one that's really BRANDED this go around is the bizarre Katy Perry one), I assume because the branded stuff packs of Sims 2 didn't go over well or something. Anyhoo, point is, while you can have a bunch of product placement in the Sims, it's also 100% avoidable. You don't have to pay for it, but there's not much reason to download it either, unless you really want the branding in your game (I happened to want my Sims tooling around in a Prius sometimes, because shut up, that's why.  ).

That sort of seems to be the case here, except it sounds like the Nissan shit is, if it worked, supposed to be more-gooder? To make you kinda feel like you "need" it? I dunno. Still, the game itself is clearly still so broken at this point, I can't get too riled up about the branded free DLC, y'know?

[jakonovski]

Man, Sim Fucking City.

They enabled cheetah speed again, and now for the first time I suffered a corrupted city. Built it for an hour on cheetah speed, screen went black all of a sudden and it booted me to main menu. Loaded the region back up, region view didn't show anything I'd done. Tried to load the city and it hangs on the load screen.

[Mithas]

Man, Sim Fucking City.

They enabled cheetah speed again, and now for the first time I suffered a corrupted city. Built it for an hour on cheetah speed, screen went black all of a sudden and it booted me to main menu. Loaded the region back up, region view didn't show anything I'd done. Tried to load the city and it hangs on the load screen.

You could just revert to an earlier save...oh wait.

[Merusk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0

[jakonovski]

My broken city popped back into existence late last night, with the 200k simoleons I transfered from another city 12 hours earlier. I then proceeded to wreck the city by building expensive casinos, because they're still broken and sometimes just get no visitors.

[Fabricated]

My broken city popped back into existence late last night, with the 200k simoleons I transfered from another city 12 hours earlier. I then proceeded to wreck the city by building expensive casinos, because they're still broken and sometimes just get no visitors.

Casino visitors are classified as shoppers, so if there's other commercial buildings that are quicker to get to, they go to those and not your casinos.

[jakonovski]

My broken city popped back into existence late last night, with the 200k simoleons I transfered from another city 12 hours earlier. I then proceeded to wreck the city by building expensive casinos, because they're still broken and sometimes just get no visitors.

Casino visitors are classified as shoppers, so if there's other commercial buildings that are quicker to get to, they go to those and not your casinos.

Well that's weird, my worst performing casino is next to a muni bus terminal and an airport.

[eldaec]

Quality of drama in this thread is definitely tailing off. All good things and all that.

[Mithas]

I assumed people stopped playing because it was pretty much unplayable. Maybe since no one is playing, stability is better? I wish we could get sales numbers and compare them to active players. I think that would be interesting.

[jakonovski]

It's because we're all busy buying Crest and Oral-B products to collect the complete Simcity Attractions Set!

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-attractions-set-faq

[Mithas]

It's because we're all busy buying Crest and Oral-B products to collect the complete Simcity Attractions Set!

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-attractions-set-faq

 

This was my ultimate fear. Simcity has become The Sims.

[Hammond]

Fucking EA I can't wait to see what other atrocities they are going to bring to the table with this one. With this news and the other news from EA about shutting down a bunch of the social media games we may see a major shakeup going down the pipe from them.

[Sjofn]

It's because we're all busy buying Crest and Oral-B products to collect the complete Simcity Attractions Set!

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-attractions-set-faq

 

This was my ultimate fear. Simcity has become The Sims.

You should wish it was the Sims. I can play the Sims offline and it actually works as advertised.

[Sir T]

What is included in the Attractions Set?
There are five attractions: Giant Garden Gnome, Dolly the Dinosaur, Llarry the Llama, MaxisMan Statue and the World’s Largest Ball of Twine.

Fuck yeah!!

[Merusk]

It's because we're all busy buying Crest and Oral-B products to collect the complete Simcity Attractions Set!

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-attractions-set-faq

 

This was my ultimate fear. Simcity has become The Sims.

You should wish it was the Sims. I can play the Sims offline and it actually works as advertised.

Just you wait until Sims4.

[Hutch]

It's because we're all busy buying Crest and Oral-B products to collect the complete Simcity Attractions Set!

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-attractions-set-faq

 

This was my ultimate fear. Simcity has become The Sims.

You should wish it was the Sims. I can play the Sims offline and it actually works as advertised.

Just you wait until EA collapses into itself, pulling all of Maxis' IPs down the litigation vortex with it 

[Gets]

So EA canned some Facebook games and fired a bunch of people around the globe.

http://www.geekosystem.com/ea-kills-simcity-social/

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/04/17/report-ea-lays-more-staff-india-and-playfish#.UW8HY7VbluA

[jakonovski]

At this rate I won't be able to build a working gambling city before EA implodes.

[Mithas]

I love comments. From the geekosystem one:

"during all these years I've spend more than 700 dollars buying pet society cash coins"

 

[Paelos]

The things Consumerist says EA fails to do are to provide a product people want and like, to sell their products at reasonable prices, and to support the products they sell.

The fact that Consumerist gave EA the worst company rating for 2 years in a row speaks volumes. BP after the spill won that award last.

[Ingmar]

Consumerist didn't "give" EA the worst company rating, internet sperglords voted it to them, ignoring people like the architects of the financial crisis and such to do so.

They could be the worst video game company ever - hell, maybe they are (but my vote goes to Stardock and will for all time) - and it would still be 100% stupid to give them that award.