SimCity for Mac launches August 29

If you enjoy butting your head against the wall, if you love paying a lot for very little, being restrained when you want to play, being constrained by millions of other strangers on how you play, ignore the existing buyer's remorse and screams and complaints, ignore EA's broken promises and bad PR, go for it, sign up, marry EA.

Otherwise spare yourself the expensive grief and wait for the offline version.

Gimme BIG cities with trains and a monorail and buses, and an underground. Ah to hell with it lets play Sim City Rush Hour. I do not want mining or drilling for oil. That is not city specialization. Mostly I want BIG. But nobody is listening. Nobody ever listens.

Who in their right mind would buy a Mac? Pay more for the same thing. Apple is for hipsters.

What do you call a Mac-user? An i-DIOT.

Gimme big cities!

Cheers for reminding me that I own this game, Gamespot... That's my day ruined!

EA and the by EA corrupted Maxis doing what they're doing best - broadening their potential victim audience to make money off a still broken product that's been confirmet to never be fixed or made playable. (all customer feedback has been and is still being completely ignored and instead of fixing the game they're working on overpriced DLC)

It will be over soon if they can't find enough stupid customers anymore.
At the moment they seem to be targeting the "oh, shiny" MAC crowd because the UI is actually "ok" (and "pretty") and that seems to be their selling point for the MAC version.

When they can't milk that audience anymore either and the flow of money stops, then the servers will be shut down, a stupid excuse will be found and nobody will be able to use their bought product anymore (and developing one last patch to make it playable offline is too "costly") - happened before, will happen again.
Then development on SimCity >insert next version< will start and the cycle of ripping off and disrespecting customers repeats. (if they can still find stupid enough people then)

Anyways, the news that this "SimCity" is entirely broken have been out long enough and I agree with what was said already - If anyone still buys this product despite all the evidence out there, it's hopefully at least a learning experience for that illguided customer.

Don't buy this crappy game Mac users! You have been warned!

Macs are dead and pc's are dying. Too bad they don't make it for the PhonyStation 4 or the LOL Vita.

Finally, Mac users get a game they deserve.

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

That about sums up my thoughts on this subject.

everyone's already been warned. anyone who buys this game now deserves what they get.

and it requires not only AODRM but the just in time origin for mac?

Even Mac users don't want this game.

Buyer beware.

Seriously, instead of foisting this mess on a whole new platform, how about fixing the game?

I like hugs!

for mac book pro ?

Heh, we'll see how strongly Mac users react to always online once they discover it has it.

oh yay now they can enjoy the trainwreck too!

Yay! Now more people can play their broken game! Seriously Mac users, steer clear of this one. I desperately wanted to like this game. I accepted the small plot size thinking that I could just play a whole region myself and get the same basic feel of the sprawling city.

But the core design is broken. At a point in every city, no matter what you do, the traffic will disable your town. As there is only one way in and one way out of your city and the design of the game is to keep it this way. There's an occasional plot that has a highway that runs through, but even that will end up broken.

This is not a good product, and adding more servers was the start of fixing the problems, not the end. And patches have done little to help the core broken design. They've put out a few fires, but the inferno rages on. Adding more servers was like using a fire extinguisher on a burning table while ignoring that the walls are also engulfed in flames.

Look at all the people cheering for this amazing news.

Is it still a "Must be connected," game?

Well Apple users, be prepared not to be able to play it on day one!

"I can't wait!" - Said no MAC user ever.

@walidras mac os is cool

LOL! Money grab! Are Mac users as gullible as the PC users that are still buying this unusable POS?

Now all they need is an iOS version and the circle of crap will be complete.

Maybe you should finish fixing the PC version first

This is a good move on their part, seeing that Mac users actually like being screwed by product companies, so they'd probably welcome this game with open arms.

Welcome to The Nightmare, Mac...

I see that fair ground image, but all my cities end up looking like Soviet Russia.