Simcity 2013

Subtitle: Online only? WHY?!?

This isn't a review; just a quick discussion. I heard a few months back about a new simcity game coming out. I was interested, I liked simcity back in the day. I have fond memories of several games from the sim series.

Simearth.
Simant.
Simcity; on the commodore 64 and PC
Simcity 2000

Great games. I wasn't terribly excited about the new simcity, I've simply played too many of 'em to expect something amazing or revolutionary... but I was interested.

Then... I heard it was online only.

Yeah, no.

I mean, come on! Simcity is a big sandbox game, literally! What's the point of being online while you build a city? Where's the need for the multiplayer aspect? The only reason I can see it happening is the stupid move to more 'social' systems in games. There's already a simcity style game on facebook, and it's free! NOT EVERY GAME NEEDS SOCIAL INTERACTION!!! More than likely it's just a façade, a lie to cover up the main goal of DRMing the game via a login screen.

THEN! Oh boy, then... the release was utterly bungled to the point where they've started to rip out features in an attempt to  keep the servers online.

I wish I could say I wasn't expecting it, but let's face it... when was the last time one of these online only games that are really single player experiences actually came out without having an awful release?

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. No fucking way I was going to buy another game with a completely unnecessary online component. And everyone that did needs to wake up and realise their mistake.

It's time to demand our money back, fuck EA and fuck this trend of forcing us online to play single player games.

Keeper3, Fuck EA; it's just that simple.