@weizegger8 I will buy this game when it has an offline, single player option, which it should have and easily could have. Until then, giving EA money for this sort of misbehavior and customer abuse strikes me as morally wrong. I can't give them any money for it. Not even if they only charge me $5. Doing so would encourage them and others to shit on their customers again in the future.
@Cloud_imperium I would say it's like having to go to the dealer to fetch the key every day and return it at the end of the day. You want to drive but the dealer is on a coffee break? Tough luck, try back later. The dealership went out of business? Looks like you're shit out of luck!
Oh, and by the way, for your trouble you are charged 20-50% more than other cars out there. ($60 for a game are you fucking serious?)
@Gomtor The problem is the mindless masses fork over so much money to game publishers who do stuff like this, that they can afford to do it. Only when enough people decide they aren't going to put up with getting shit on in exchange for their $60 will this sort of thing stop.
I played Simcity on my Windows 3.1 computer way back in the day and was hooked from day one. Back then the only copy protection was a red card with black printing on it (so that it couldn't be photocopied) that you had to enter a code from every time you started the game. I'm so sad to see such a great franchise turned to utter shit through nothing less than pure greed. Keep shitting on your honest customers, game publishers. Pretty soon enough of them will stop acting like sheep. Pretty soon they will stop paying full price for a game that you are only renting to them.
Good luck playing this game in 10 years when you're feeling nostalgic, folks. It won't work.
$60 for a single-player game that you can't play when the servers are down because you are unnecessarily required to connect to said server to play at all? I'll pass. I wish people would stop putting up with this nonsense because doing so causes it to proliferate.
@Baldurs_Gate200 Thumbs up. I'm building my collection of single player, physical copies of games and systems a little more each week. I'm preparing for the gaming apocalypse.
@modreta @Neo_Sarevok They make revisions to the rules every year in the NFL. And the players do speak their minds via the players' union. The public just doesn't get to hear that stuff because it's done behind closed doors, unlike in the video game community where everything is posted on the internet.
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