EA fumbles Sim City launch

[Boomer]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/05/gamers-line-up-to-play-simcity/

Oh, man... this is too good. From the perspective of a diehard anti-DRM gamer, this sort of news just rings like music to my ears. Can we all at some point have a decent, logical discussion about the future of gaming without the priests of industry having to bash us over the heads with their ambitions and desires for glory? Always online gaming is meant for one thing... multi-player. Designing all games to be played all the time online is such a foolish idea I don't even know where to begin with countering it. Can we say 'planned obsolescence'? Design a game, market the hell out of it, release it to a waiting public, shove them all into a bandwidth leeching and hacker prone hell for 2 years, then abandon all support for game, move on to next franchise, rinse and repeat.

This is not how the gaming industry should be run. This is not how games should be designed or released. And these are not the people (I'm looking at you, EA) who should be in charge of making 3D textures for games, let alone being industry giants directing the entire gaming market.

If online all the time is the future for gaming, then news like the release of Sim City-'Online' should be a dire warning to all. If always online turns into 'online when the company feels like it' is the future, I say let the future burn. After all, CDs and DVDs might be obsolete to the tech nerds running things, but you know what, a CD or DVD will install 10 years from now on an old PC just as well as it will today. Try naming a gaming network that claim that honor. Fast food for slow brains... that's all it's becoming. Garbage in, garbage out. No thanks, EA. I used up all my gullibility points in high school.

[ERISS]

Can we say 'planned obsolescence'?
If always online turns into 'online when the company feels like it' is the future, I say let the future burn.

No future! Tabula rasa, we shall raise from ashes lol

CD or DVD will install 10 years from now on an old PC just as well as it will today. Try naming a gaming network that claim that honor.

Not sure, CD/DVD plastic is even obsoletely made to decay (old vinyl is better for the future!).

[Prussian Konig]

Have had no problem until now. Played for about 5 hours and then the servers went down. Good game if I could stay connected. This is becoming a problem for me...always on Internet to play. Making me change my mind on how I buy games.

[Franciscus]

Not sure, CD/DVD plastic is even obsoletely made to decay (old vinyl is better for the future!).

Well, in the end, also the carbon-based life forms (like us) are also made to decay...

Anyhow, all we can do is vote with our wallet - support and help the guys that keep making the games we want to play the way we want to play them !

[Boomer]

Well, in the end, also the carbon-based life forms (like us) are also made to decay...

Anyhow, all we can do is vote with our wallet - support and help the guys that keep making the games we want to play the way we want to play them !

That's why I'm here. I don't want to have to invoke bans or boycotts, I simply want to be able to play games without logging in to a network each time and submitting a blood sample to authorize my account. So long as the industry pushes itself in the 'online all the time' direction, I will continue to throw my support and my money at companies that do the opposite. So, thank you AGEOD, Slitherine, Matrix, and any others that stay away from the networked behemoth.