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It makes perfect sense- if enough critical parts of the game code run on the servers (and the end-user doesn't have direct access to the code), they can restrict access to paying customers only. But that's not the point.Īs was mentioned several times in yesterday's story, the setup itself was almost certainly designed this way as a form of DRM. There's just no way that these mini-cities have so many calculations that a decent desktop stumbles with them.Īctually, it'd probably run a *lot* better if it was running entirely on the local machine. The servers may be handling the inter-city calculations but that's it. EA has stated that their servers are handling some portion of the gameplay itself. Unfortunately the Oceania server has just filled up and after giving me the longest loading screen in the world, literally 10 minutes, it says my city isn't available right now.Īlegedly it's not "just" DRM. I've got a DVD in my drive that says Sim-CIty on it, and I just want to get back to Myrtle City - my highly successful singleplayer region on the Oceania server and continue work on New Wageslavedom, the adjacent settlement I'm also mayor of. The real kick to the shins is that most of the time the game just doesn't work.
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Now granted, I didn't go into this with a full origin friends list so it's been all pubbies, but in 7 games with 20+ players I've gotten one response to a basic greeting, that's a terrible ratio and I'm pretty charming.
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Because literally every game is hosted online (single player regions are just locked games), EA had to use asynchronous communications - Functionally when you send a written chat, it has to be delivered to the other regional players in a periodic region update so chat messages can sometimes lag 2 or 3 minutes before showing up. I was expecting voice chat, as is normal in multiplayer-emphasized games but rarely have I gotten so much as a chat response. I did not play Sim City as a child and so don't have any sentimental attachment to it - I enjoy the game but find the multiplayer experiance oddly silent. By day 2, West Coast #2 was stuck on "Busy" so I switched to OceaneaĮA has been promoting the fact that the servers aren't region locked, but it seems like a stupid move given the game releases in those regions today and tomorrow, but they're already full with overflow players from north america. I signed up for West Coast, US #2, correctly guessing it would be available more often than US #1. There are only two servers per most regions, and only one for Oceania. Once the server is up, you get to launch the game. What you need to do is alt-F4, and then try again until the server is back up.
If you just let it sit there, nothing happens. Half the time the game won't even launch - It briefly flashes "Servers not available" then the text changes to "checking for update" with a progress bar 100% full.
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I would love it if companies who start their game design by including DRM left the PC market, it will become a bigger market for the developers that want to make great games.Īs a sucker who bought this game, let me share my two days experience with it. PC gaming will succeed in spite of companies like EA, not because of them. PC gaming will succeed because of companies like Valve, and because of the developers and fans who use things like Kickstarter to get their games funded (speaking of which, where the hell is Star Command?).
EA is not a friend to PC gamers, we don't need them. Hopefully EA withdraws from the PC gaming market and focuses on only producing console titles, that would also be a win. The best outcome of this would be EA losing a ton of money on SimCity. This is good for PC gaming, because it means strategies like this will not succeed in the marketplace. It's bad because I like PC games, and want the industry to focus on PC games again. It's good, because games with bad DRM shouldn't succeed. Not sure if this is good for the PC games industry, or bad.
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