Originally posted by majinant
Fundamentally, SimCity has always been a 'software toy'. That means that there's no real end state, no way to win. It's just a thing that you play and experiment with. You build, and tinker, and mess around. It's a toy, not a game; it's a sandbox, not baseball.

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But buying this game? In my opinion, you would be wiser to take three twenties out of your wallet, and light them on fire.

Well, I'll be. I thought I was going crazy and having déjà vu but is this your review or...? If it is then 

Originally posted by NBlitz

Originally posted by majinant
Fundamentally, SimCity has always been a 'software toy'. That means that there's no real end state, no way to win. It's just a thing that you play and experiment with. You build, and tinker, and mess around. It's a toy, not a game; it's a sandbox, not baseball.

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But buying this game? In my opinion, you would be wiser to take three twenties out of your wallet, and light them on fire.

Well, I'll be. I thought I was going crazy and having déjà vu but is this your review or...? If it is then 

Great review. :)

Originally posted by birdycephon
I would go a step further and say that not only is there no way to win in SC5, there is noway to avoid losing in the long run. Since all buildings require water, which is non-replenishing, in the end, you will fail. It's only a matter of time.

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If you put the pump next to the sewage treatment plant you won't run out of water. The sewage endlessly supplies water.

The head of EA hasn't been shy about letting people know he won't green-light any project that doesn't have multiplayer, so it really isn't a surprise if the dev's actually did design it from the ground up this way.

EA ruins games.

Originally posted by Ryowulf

Originally posted by birdycephon
I would go a step further and say that not only is there no way to win in SC5, there is noway to avoid losing in the long run. Since all buildings require water, which is non-replenishing, in the end, you will fail. It's only a matter of time.

 

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If you put the pump next to the sewage treatment plant you won't run out of water. The sewage endlessly supplies water.

Now that, is something I need to investigate. Last city I built was a 'clean' city, so I exported all of my sewage, and so my city ran dry, even though I was importing a lot of water from other cities. 

NOBODY wanted that. Sure, an OPTIONAL multiplayer feature. That would have been interesting. But what the fracking devil did they smoke to transform SimCity into a Zynga Farmville variant?? Was this decision made by the Bad Idea Bears? I can't possibly fathom how they ever, ever came to this idea.

People love games like Sims, Sim City, Civilization, because they are GOD in their small world, and for once they DON'T have to make compromises with noisy neighbours and for once DON'T have to bear the shitty behavior from next door. To escape reality for a few hours to a place of entirely your own making. How any game developer could possibly think it would be a good idea to toss that out of the window is as alien to me as why anyone would drill a hole into his knee for fun.

"Right now, if you look at The Sims 3, the game costs $30. But if also you buy all the DLC for it, it's *four hundred and seventy dollars*. This is what they are doing with SimCity 5; locking you into their server infrastructure, and then exploiting the heck out of your wallet."

Lol. Just lol.

Riiccitello steps down.

Sims "MMO" announcement.

There's a connection here somewhere.. or maybe not.