SimCity

EA's Online DRM has ruined everything.

User Rating: 1 | SimCity PC

By cptsparrow01 | Review Date: March 6, 2013

EA's Online DRM has ruined everything. Its ridiculous to require an Always Online DRM. When will EA ever learn. 3 hour wait times just to play a game? Once in, I saved, and had to run to the store. Got back 7 mins later and had to wait another 3 hours.
I bet this will be one of the top pirated games of all time. Will it surpass Spore?

Aside from these issues, the game is lacking many standard features: subways, arcologies, airports, and by far the biggest issue: Within 45 mins of playing I had used all the land available. EA says there will be a future DLC for larger maps? So now we have to pay for something that should have been standard. I wonder what more we will have to pay for? If we users dont voice our opinions about these gestapo tactics, EA will pretty soon start charging us to use their servers, for this forced online DRM. Oh, more money huh...

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