@Granpire It doesn't prove that voting with our wallets doesn't work. It only proves that people vote with their dollar the same way they vote on elections: without thinking it through.
@airboard360 I don't think it's that. We're used to visiting gaming sites and therefore grow accustomed to the idea that this is par for the course for any gamer. It's not. Not even 10% of regular game buyers access gaming portals. They just see the regular advertising elsewhere, think "What? FINALLY a new SimCity? Man, I love this back in the day!" and go buy it.
It may be the best for the series *at launch*, but with the marketing involved, the 10-year waiting period and all, it's undoubtedly WAY less than they expected.
And most important of all, it will sell *way less* over time, while I'm sure previous SimCity entries sold well on word of mouth for months and years later.
@Leboyo56 One day later AND with a 20% discount. I'd jumped all over it if I hadn't preordered it on Steam in a special bundle with the soundtrack (which will be, I'll bet, the best gaming soundtrack we'll hear this year).
People need to understand that this SimCity with always-online DRM is COMPLETELY different from a MMO or an online multiplayer-based game. On these, you WOULDN'T want to play them alone even if you could. The whole point is to interact with people.
In Diablo and SimCity, social online interactivity may be added to the developer's content but the games still are fundamentally single-player, or at least perfectly playable alone. If they had done "Diablo: Co-Op Mayhem" or "SimCity Social" as online-only spin-off games, no one would complain (save for the odd unaware buyer). But Diablo III and SimCity STILL are games you CAN play alone, so it's infuriating if you can't do so because of an internet connection problem - even moreso if it is not on your side.
@Deon101sky @bluefox755 If I could show you a track record of all the comments I've made here and on other sides, you'd know that not only I hate to side with overtly negative comments, but I also despise the gratuitous hate against EA. I don't think it deserves a fraction of the flak it gets. There are way worse companies, both inside and outside the gaming industry.
That said, there's no denying this: you buy this, you're voting with your dollar, don't complain later. It's this simple. Just because I don't want to jump on the anti-EA bandwagon, it doesn't mean they can make mistakes, and terrible ones at that. This is one of them.
@Daemoroth @MXVIII @jack00 Don't take my word for this, but I have the distinct impression Ubisoft has removed the DRM on that game a while ago. But it *may* have just be the always-online requirement to play. Not sure either way except that they DID remove something due to the backlash.
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