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SimCity 5 Fun
So this game launched a short while ago and received a fair bit of hype - perhaps negative - around its DRM scheme.

It seems that, increasingly, games are moving to always online DRM schemes as they're probably harder to crack and less of an issue with more people having an always-on internet connection.  EA is certainly no smarter.

Well, to repeat some EA history, their servers got hammered after launch, resulting in:
Quote:Players attempting to play EA/Maxis' new SimCity game are finding that their save games are tied to a particular server, are facing problems with disconnects, inability to track friends or search for specific coop games online and failures to load game, and wait times of 20 minutes per login attempt. The question is, why the online restriction? Does this possibly indicate future micro-transactions in game?
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/05/simcit...ea-origin/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/cl...-problems/

Amazon's reviews averaged at around 1 star from the game, causing them to pull sales from their store.
EA have tried to respond by bringing up more servers and offering a free (EA) game to those who've had these issues.  But of course, they won't be pulling back their DRM, right?

Of course, this isn't particularly new; the Diablo III launch had similar problems I believe.
My personal belief is to never buy at launch - just wait a while whilst others discover all the problems and then make your decision.
(This post was last modified: 09/03/2013 06:15 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)
09/03/2013 06:13 PM
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I didn't think EA would manage to top Diablo 3's launch but they did it.



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I hope this will make people resist buying games with this poo poo.
10/03/2013 03:34 AM
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That's unfortunate. About the 'review-bombing' stuff? That's also unfortunate. Having thousands of people do this just because they dislike the game makes the gaming community as a whole look immature and childish. C'mon people, send them a complaint, make a real review, just do something!
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It's quite sickening really.
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all good now, been fixed last friday, some regions maybe have problems.
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I'll never support games with single player DRM let alone EA.
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(11/03/2013 05:12 PM)1-R Wrote:  I'll never support games with single player DRM let alone EA.

Sounds about right.

I'll go out of my way to pirate games like this.
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(14/03/2013 09:19 AM)lembas Wrote:  
(11/03/2013 05:12 PM)1-R Wrote:  I'll never support games with single player DRM let alone EA.

Sounds about right.

I'll go out of my way to pirate games like this.

Especially when the game works just fine offline when EA said it would take significant work to make it an offline game.
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