Free SimCity DLC offers sponsored Nissan Leaf car dock

Wow it's so easy to piss you guys off. Add an in game add and all hell breaks loose

Hang on a minute...so now inserting ads into a game is considered 'free DLC'?

Haahahahahahahaha!! :D

"free from Origin or the in-game store. The content will be available for the next six months."

so, free DLC but only for six months...EA YOU FUNNY...

Who are these people that actually buy Datsuns...err, Nissans?

Gimmie a GM car any day over some crappy japanese one.

HAHAHA EA Strikes again.....i hope this issues with simcity didnt not render the EA SKATE SERVERS TO SHUTDOWN at the end of this month.....That Would Be SO PATHETIC.

A FREE dlc from EA? Oh wait, it's just in-game ads....

So when will EA throw in their own offices for a real authentic experience?

In game ads? Free DLC? EA? **** no.

whats the problem? its advertisement, Facebook does it all the time, no one cry's about it. Give me a break, this is far from brain washing, look up the definition. It is a marketing plan, and EA is getting a slice, so chill out. Your brain wont turn to mush from advertisement, just because a game does it, doesn't make it evil or wrong. so grow the hell up you noobs.

Edit: Kinda sad.

Very subtle EA.

For god's sake EA.

remember when youtube had no commercials? the leeches come in after a product is proven to be successful and jam their brainwashing down everyone's throats...no thanks.

Because they have a Nissan Leaf charging station doesn't mean that they EA will get away from the award

Whoa! This is amazing! A free car dock from Nissan! I'm pumped!

Forget about everything else, this shit is the best thing to be released this year!

- Said no-one ever

EA has been amazing...at kicking their supporters in the balls, monetizing everything they develop, and ruining their own game series.

If only it was a Free to Play game, it wouldn't have so much criticism.
But come on!! Adding ads with 1 month of release (and what a rocky first month) is just stupid.

@i_like_pie223 @northArrow Nutty would be too much of a treat for those guys.

Let me hear you say make money, moneyMake money, money moneeeyyy...

I can't be the only person in the world that wants to walk into the Maxis office and take a dump on someone's desk.

You know, kind of like what they did to me when I installed Simcity

How about fix the game before looking to cash in from advertising.

I don't mind product placement in games so long as it's not overly intrusive. This is an interesting way of implementing it.

Indifferent.

I never really minded product placement in my sports or racing games. It adds a great sense of authenticity to the games.

Free DLC is always nice, but I just dont want it thrown in my face too much; have it optional, where if I want the DLC for free, I'll make the commitment knowing that the content is ad supported.

out of all the EV's on the market, they chose the ugly leaf.

Well...I Have Very Mixed Reactions with this, on one hand it's a really...disgraceful thing to do when i first heard it, Mini Ads in your game?

But it got me thinking a little bit more, Ads in game like this is actually pretty good, it makes your city more, normal. But hey... it's free i won't complain and it does not really change the game very much "Cough" DRM"

This game blows :D

And now we see what EA's plan for SimCity has been all along - to monetize the game in such a way that those who paid full price for it are treated like products for advertisers rather than consumers. (And OF COURSE adding in an advertisement in the game for the Nissan Leaf would have no costs or downsides!)

Yet another reason I won't be buying SimCity. I don't mind in-game advertising in freemium/f2p games where the advertising is subsidizing the fact that you're not paying anything to play. But I also feel that developers should give players a chance to pay full price to have a "deluxe edition" that removes those elements (and adds in anything that's monetized).

Perhaps the biggest problem with SimCity is that EA clearly intended it to be an MMO Strategy title, but sold it through a traditional model. It's infuriating to those who just wanted a SimCity 5 rather than a SimCity Social.

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LOLZ

Also RANDOM disasters my ar..s.. When I get strange roll backs the exact same disaster takes place and does the exact same thing all the time... WOW

I like how it doesn't use power, the greenies must love this stuff, it doesn't take power away from your city, so it must be powered by love.

Wow, isn't that nice? They're giving us a free in game advertisement for the game, that makes up for the botched launch right? :)

i wonder how long untill they will also make you pay for in game adds

Also have they turned on the region chat yet? or is the game still gimped to help their hampster wheel driven servers?

Now they're adding in-game advertising?!?!?! Nothing breaks a game's immersion more than that!!! In the case of SimCity a created city wouldn't belong to me anymore, it would feel like EA owns it if they can edit and change it with real life advertising.

of course it's free, Nissan paid them for this commercial

its pathetic that this is considered a "free DLC" by EA when you can find 1000's of "sponsored" mods feauring real life companies on the STEX for sc4 at no charge what so ever.

and this is pretty much a cheat building since it has no negatives and requires nothing but an upfront construction cost.

THANKS EA. YOU ARE SO KIND AND GENEROUS.

im really glad Maxis/EA ripped of Cities XL. it makes me hate Simcity even more.

"-advanced social features-"
Now I get it...

@i_like_pie223 The age of user created mods is going along quite well, it's just not in the land of AAA games.

That's okay, since EA's stuff is overpriced junk anyway. Spend your money elsewhere.