EA: SimCity offline mode 'didn't fit with our vision'

@Daemoroth I know, there was a bit of sarcasm there, but calling Activision saint needs to be called :D

What comes to D3 needing online connection, I don't think that is the case either. They have said the console vesrions come with offline-mode, so what's up with that?

@S4E @Daemoroth @RoadStar1602 Well, at least their games do actually have server-side computations, as opposed to claiming to do so and then revealing that it's just a check every 20 minutes that requires << LINK REMOVED >>.

Also, buying The Sims 3 complete would run me about $500... I can imagine the same to eventually be true for SimCity.

And finally, don't take my post too seriously, I thought calling Activision a saint would make that obvious? :)

@Daemoroth @Aleksa8 @RoadStar1602 No problem.
It worries me, because why would a best selling franchise NEED microtransactions when there are other games out there with microtransactions that are free to play, and are NOT pay to win?

This seems like a ploy to get into Paymium gaming. by the end of the year, the next CoD is likely going to have downloadable weapons. In fact, BO2 included some with a DLC, apparently. Pay to win may be coming soon, as well.

@Aleksa8 @Daemoroth @RoadStar1602 Hahahaha!!!! /headdesk...

Well, tbh, I can live with COSMETIC microtransactions, I never buy them anyway. Will have to see what stunts they try to pull before I look at BO2, thanks for the heads-up!

@Daemoroth @S4E @pwc2 Oh bloody hell, so that's what they meant by fake numbers, I thought fake numbers meant like millions and you got that 100-200K. That's just crap.

And yes, you are not the only one that finds the whole business with D3 appalling.

The fact alone that console versions come with offline is a f**king disgrace, when they said all along that offline-mode wasn't possible to have, because drop rates etc. were done/calculated on the server-side.

You know, I'm afraid those will change (drop rates) for consoles, so that you CAN actually get proper loot a la D2, shockingly, YOURSELF. Not using AH/RMAH.

So prepare to fume, "slightly" :D

...The only reason D3 pc version has to have that crap are the auction houses. That's all.

@S4E @pwc2 Solid points all-round, Blizzard has really lit the fires again with their console announcement (My brain has blocked that, I'll get a bloodclot thinking about that fiasco). Though I don't hold much hope for it anyway, the loot system was designed around the AH, and without access to the AH people will have to grind for weeks in order to get an upgrade (Unless they rework the loot for consoles, in which case *FUUUUMMMEEEEE!!!!*).

I haven't actually had a look at Cities XL, heard very polarising opinions of it, some love it, some hate it, but will check it out in a bit more detail, thanks!

Oh, and be warned, your 200k people in SimCity? Click on the population counter to see the stats, details tab, you'll notice that, in truth, it's only about 10% of that (Your total worker count) - 200k is a fake number... Unless of course 180k people are at home on welfare. :)

@pwc2 @S4E Yeah, it does look good. Any down-sides?

I was looking at the platinum version from their website.

@S4E CitiesXL 12 is a very good game, and nice graphics too.

@Ghetto_ninja @WolfGrey @S4E @kwcarlson This might be true, but I don't think Activision was the reason really, that messed D3 up.

Blizzard had literally all the time in world to make D3 the best game ever. Years to be precise, but the end product just wasn't there. I guess that was Wilsons' fault though, I don't know if he had any connections to Activision?

What I'm trying to say is Blizzard didn't (have to) rush D3 out, they should have done a lot better job with it, instead it was the biggest let-down in recent history of gaming.

@WolfGrey @S4E @kwcarlson Why do you think Blizzard has teamed up with Sony now to bring D3 to Playstation consoles? They should have known better than to team up with a publisher known for money grubbing. Sony does of good job of giving its dev teams enough time and resources to release great games.

@WolfGrey I'm absolutely with you on this one.

Yes, EA has done some very questionable things, and yes I don't agree with quite a lot with what they do, but SC2 has to be one of the biggest FUs ever to a player.

I mean, come on, you only get that one lousy campaign with it.

Blizzard mutilated the game simply to milk money, not just to put out DLCs (like EA seems to have a habit of doing), but completely "new", full-priced games. And this is only to get people to buy, buy, buy.

Well, they can keep their "expansions" and future releases. Unless they make the game-of-all-games in future, I'm done with them permanently.

I would do the same with EA, but alas they are too involved with everything and its just not going to work.

@S4E @kwcarlson @WolfGrey Yup which is why i don't care to typically support EA or Blizzard anymore.

Blizzard has been consumed by their greed(i am sure activision helped with that).After Lich King on WoW they started catering to the masses and WoW became kiddy style/super casual friendly.

Sc2 released without all the campaigns so they can milk a lovely 180 dollars if not more from fans.

And then Diablo 3.Ya screw blizzard.

@WolfGrey @kwcarlson Ditto.

@kwcarlson @WolfGrey Blizzard had the same PR disaster with D3 as well.

It's like, do you actually have to have any qualifications, education, logic etc. to work in either of their PR departments? Any training for the staff in general? It seems to me that they just come out and spew a load of s**t and nobody inside the company does anything to prevent it or censor it in anyway. Nobody cares.

@kwcarlson @WolfGrey Same here.I considered coming back out of curiosity when it went F2P.

Then i went to the support forums....ya....people were demanding lifetime subs back, and it was nightmare in there.

Didn't play again.

@WolfGrey @kwcarlson Oh I know, I played Star Wars last year, what they did to that still leaves me bitter.

@kwcarlson Of course. PR BS at it's best.

EA is one of the kings of terrible PR.Oh and god awful customer service.