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Reply to EA hands-out a 'freebie' as apology for SimCity problems in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Got Dead Space 3 for free, made me happy so I bought the Digital Deluxe upgrade for ME3 and Crysis 3 and a map for Sims 3 in the sale. I understand the general complaints about the game as it was released way too early IMO (even barring the server issues, the traffic problems should not have made it past launch IMO.) But the game is good. It could certainly use a few more upgrades (bigger cities would still be nice) but I can't complain about anything else anymore.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="133" id="3331105"] For your information... Sim City 2013 is available freely available on the internet... has been since release day if you believe the date of some entries. Even more devastating... it is a working version.... if you beleive the comments on said entries. [/quote] It was a working version! If you have an account with the game already registered to it, it worked great!

Reply to IE 10 Released to General Public Today in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="63" id="3330946"] Microstuff seems to be creating an atmosphere similar to Apple's where the only apps and/or hardware have to be MAC approved and third party stuff gets the boot.[/quote] err...are you in the right thread? 1 What does WinRT have to do with IE10? 2 WinRT has absolutely nothing to do with hardware.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

doubt anyone here cares, but hey http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/15/eas-lucy-bradshaw-acknowledges-simcity-stumbled-out-of-the-gate-with-our-service-interview/

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vamphaery" reply="124" id="3330846"] all that would be required for a single player, offline version of this game - with regional play intact - would be for them to store this data locally rather than in the cloud, and allow local saves.[/quote] Regional play for one player. Sure. Wasn't disputing that. That's what I meant by 'they could've made an entirely different game.' Anyway, I can't wait to see how they

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vamphaery" reply="121" id="3330828"] And therein lies the bold faced lie and the tarnishing of integrity.[/quote] Is it though? The region aspects of the game are significant, even if it isn't quite the way it sounded. Of course, they could've been done with LAN play, but we all know how likely that is lately...considering every LAN party I've ever been to was full of people 'borrowing' games so they could play them with each

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Fair enough, but no. I didn't buy a house building sim. I just want the pathing fixes in cause traffic gets fucking stupid.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="115" id="3330783"] They don't need anything other than power, homes and a few parks to play in. [/quote] Maybe they'll move in, but they won't like you or bring any tax revenue since they won't have any money. Also, I don't even know if that's true. Sims tend to move out when annoyed.

Reply to Surface RT Sucks in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="3330760"] Has nothing to do with ARM. Has to do with the complete inability of SkyDrive to act as a true cloud service and support streaming while at the same time failing to integrate into the file system. Surface Pro won't sole that. Before Microsoft decided it wanted to get into the mobile space, it probably should have thought about making SkyDrive actually function as a...sky...drive.[/quote] Still has a lot to d

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="111" id="3330662"] That said, I'm not impressed with the sync performance. Send a gift of Simoleons to another town, chances are it will get eaten by the server. It's like Homer with a donut, it is.[/quote] It takes ages, but it does get there eventually. That's pretty much the only majorly disappointing thing in the game to me.

Reply to Surface RT Sucks in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="31" id="3330513"] It's just not ready for prime time. Love the hardware but the OS and apps are beta level still.[/quote] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ARM-Windows-RT-Windows-8-x64-Blue,21319.html Even ARM agrees with that. Frankly, I don't know why anyone would expect anything different considering the last time MS did an

Reply to Does PC Gaming have a future? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="58" id="3330365"] PC-gaming isn't going anywhere........it has already gone. [/quote] I disagree on that too. It has its glaring weaknesses at the moment, but given a year or two after the PS4 comes out many of them should be cleared up. Wouldn't make much sense to make multiplatform games considerably weaker on PC instead of using 64 bit code and DX11. PC will rebound...eventually.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

https://forums.stardock.com/440090 I think this applies to sim games as well. They're still at the same kind of evolutionary stagnation that RTSes are, that while they're certainly fun to play they haven't really been impressing people much. 2014 and beyond 64 bit gaming should finally be a thing. I can't wait to see it.

Reply to Does PC Gaming have a future? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="55" id="3330274"] It is no big secret that Windows 8 sucks. People don't like it. PC makers don't like it. PC sales are plummeting largely because of Windows 8. I don't need to post articles about it. Just google it up, and see for yourself.[/quote] That's highly debatable. Even it's biggest critic among the OEMs (Acer) has been doing an about face on it, and PC sales are plummeting because people don't need new

Reply to Does PC Gaming have a future? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vamphaery" reply="51" id="3330000"] The U.S. actually has quite good internet infrastructure. The problems are 1) Last mile infrastructure makes that largely moot (no glass to the curb; last mile is usually old copper everywhere I've ever lived,)[/quote] The problems are companies that can't be arsed to expand, IMO. Our phone company has stalwartly refused to give us service between three or four different companies (Sprint, someone I don't recall,

Reply to Does PC Gaming have a future? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="42" id="3329046"] To be fair, I think it is quite apparent that internet quality and ease of access is increasing quite rapidly...10 years ago, we had dial-up internet in my house...now we have broadband internet and a wireless router that gives us internet almost everywhere in the house (excluding basement)...I think that many people have similar stories, and I think that 10 years from now the idea of being in any sort of civilized building without go

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="87" id="3329475"] Well, enough don't buy it--as I'm not going to--then yes, it might have an effect on EA. But honestly? Probably not. [/quote] That's kind of my point. If people who weren't in your target audience to begin with don't buy your game, it's not a loss. I suspect sales beat expectations on this one, which is why the capacity issues.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="84" id="3329448"] Hence, the recent server implementation issues, I referred to above. [/quote] I wasn't just talking to you. I just didn't feel like quoting everyone in the thread [e digicons]^_^[/e] I find all these people yelling 'vote with your wallet!' at the top of their lungs pretty funny...cause that's exactly what people are doing when they buy it [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="80" id="3329304"] I'm glad you enjoy Simcity V--seriously. If you like the new direction the brand is taking, and can make allowances for the recent server implementation issues, then that's great.[/quote] The server issues are practically over. There's still some minor glitching but the new servers perform amazingly and the old ones were being taken offline to update them, I assume that already happened. I'm sure

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="boshimi336" reply="76" id="3329248"] Maybe! But at least I'm happy ... well ... when it's not loading or crashing. Hmmm ... let me rethink this. [/quote] Hey $60 for several years of fun (assuming they're correct) or I could go to the movies and spend $10+ for two hours.... Yeah, I'll take the $60 too. I've already played far more than twelve hours, so...

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="73" id="3329200"] But WTF is that shit with the size of the cities? Apparently its limited to 2x2 km, now my hometown of mighty 5000 inhabitants is surely bigger than that! I realize the scale was never going to be real-like, i remember reading somewhere that entire New York City is about 1200 km2, obviously that was not going to happen...but 4 km2? Seriously?[/quote] A region is up to 16 cities, and is more analogous to a real city. You&#

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="70" id="3328839"] After having some time to actually play the game, I have to say, I'm not very impressed. The cities are just too small and the economy is just too easy. It's not bad, but it's just not that great either. [/quote] It's easy until it isn't. I've run into several situations where things devolved quickly, and when you get into the specializations they tend to cost money to run without guar

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

On that note, for anyone who cares, new servers are up worldwide.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I wasn't commenting on what is or isn't acceptable to you for a reason. But fair enough. I still haven't seen anyone talking about it, but I'll accept that it is occurring to some.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vamphaery" reply="60" id="3328550"] seriously, the number of people talking about losing ten to fifteen hours of progress makes my head hurt[/quote] Seriously? I haven't seen anyone talking about that that actually experienced it. In fact I think I've only even heard about it once and that was third party. I question if that's even a legitimate complaint rather than anti-EA trolling.