There is good reason to hold EA and Maxis accountable for the mess that is SimCity's latest release. It may be a good game, but it is a step in the wrong direction. It needs to be shoved under EA's nose and held there till it realizes it will not be tolerated.
Online only has its place in some games, while other services do quite well with a frequent check-in service. (My feelings for that service were not always that way...) But taking a game that previously was a single player game and cramming in multiplayer not to add to the experience but to act as psuedo-DRM is patently ridiculous and needs to be stopped.
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| This should not be a thing for a SimCity game |
We are already seeing the results of an excited launch day pretty much crushing the under prepared EA servers. But worse, this means that EA can now force upgrades. Simply shut off the server for this version, and you need to buy the next to have access.
This sort of DRM is disgusting at every level. They did this to Diablo 3, one of the major reasons I voted with my wallet and did not buy it. I loved SimCity, and I love the screens and videos coming out of this game. But I refuse to buy it until it has a dedicated, offline only mode. If they cannot offer that, Good Old Games is still out there, so I'll just go relive the days when games were made for gamers, not for investors.
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