@Ladiesman17 Because of piracy? LOL

Talk about misinformed or selective information.

You sound exactly like gaming industry representatives, blame piracy, when your product stinks or company itself is crap.

Fact is quite the opposite actually. Someone here posted about it actually, stating that studies have shown piracy actually does the opposite. People who pirated a game have liked it so much they have went and bought it, whereas otherwise would had just ignored the game altogether. In the first instance the company has made a sale, simply because someone "tested" the game first and on the second instance, they didn't lose anything, because there was nothing to be gained in the first place.

Piracy has been made into a huge scapegoat, which can and will be used in every situation possible to blame, when something doesn't go right, e.g. sales not quite what was expected.

Plus, and I do keep repeating myself, anti-piracy always hurts the paying customer only, thus have turned quite a few to use pirated products, if only as a protest.

Get your facts straight.

@albusfr @OldKye What is also sad, is the fact that they deleted his forum posts, and at the same time, claimed they support modders blaa blaa...

I don't really know what to think, this whole thing is growing to be a major PR disaster. Not just the launch, not just the obvious poor design choices, but the fact that Maxis and EA are constantly doing more and more to f**k things up even more than they already are.

I felt the same way with D3 and Blizzard to be quite honest. I thought the people working there had 0 knowledge of PR, in fact it felt to me that they had NO PR department whatsoever.

Seriously, who "teaches" these people, who are supposedly working in the PR dep. etc? It seems to me, no one.

@yob711 I'm leaning heavily towards this as well.

I'm so torn with this game, I've said this many times. I really want the game, but not how it is now, and not wanting to support this crap what Maxis and EA are doing.

@mikesla11555 @Suikogaiden Ignorance is a bliss, eh? :D

Seriously though, what Suiko is impying is that because HE likes online-always crap, everyone else should too, lovely :)

Baa baa little sheepie :)

@asjflask @Sharebear420 It is as bad. What is the difference here then, if comparing the two?

They both are exactly the same, no point trying to make Blizzard sound any better than the "evil" EA.

I do, however, agree completely about what you say about piracy.

Anti-piracy never works.

It only hurts paying customer and puts extra cost on the products as well, which are also paid by the legit customer.

Piracy will always exist, no matter what the industry does.

They will never learn.

Ok, while I think this is good in general, it is too little way, way, way too late.

Partially why D3 was such a failure to many, was because bots ruined it, the whole economy was screwed up by botters overloading it with farmed gold etc.

Mind, I never liked the whole idea of AH/RMAH, but that was basically completely destroyed by letting botters/farmers/etc run riot. I think someone said back then, that Blizzard actually allowed them to do so, to boost the economy and to make more money from gold sells and whatnot.

I don't even see the point anymore to be perfectly honest. With D3 damage has already been done. I personally gave it a decent shot, levelling all the classes to high enough levels and about 3 months playing. Now, I just can't see myself going back to it. No appeal whatsoever, unlike D2 had for example.

@Pierce_Sparrow @hXcShock I hate to say it, but I do agree with you Pierce. I've said this myself, EA is too wide-spread to avoid. If you are into gaming a lot, denying yourself all of the titles they are involved would be impossible.

And, I do have to say, and this might sound "bad", but its not EAs fault alone. Nobody has forced anyone to sell to them or work with them or anything. This disccussion about greed goes the other way as well. Have all the companies that are now either owned by EA or working under them done this for the hell of it, of course not.

They have wanted more money, and thus sided with EA in hopes of doing so.

@shoaibasghar_s I have to admit, I'm still contemplating this, buying I mean.

It's SimCity, that's all there is to it. Not wanting to support what Maxis and EA are doing, but a new SimCity game, arrggh... I was so going to buy this, but I'm torn.

I suppose its just one of things, need to "let go", like with SC2 HotS, after SC2 and D3, I said to myself, I'm done with Blizzard, and have kept that one.

I don't know though, avoiding EA completely these days, is near on impossible, if you play games constantly. They are involved in everything, well nearly. At least that's how it feels like anyway.

@Daemoroth Exactly, trying to feed players some crap about SimCity being an MMO has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a awhile.

Either, she has no clue what she is on about, not knowing the basic principles of online gaming, or she is just trying tell everyone load of bull, I guess both are equally bad.

@Landsharkk That has to be one of poorest attempts to, uhm, answer "stuff"?

I can't believe what kind of answers she has given, well, not given in this case.

Oh my word, does she think that players are retarded or something? Does she think that by, for example, branding SimCity an MMO, people actually believe it to be so? Bloody hell... PR disaster and f**king huge one.