It's an interesting dilemma that goes outside of just Hardcore gaming.
EA has made it so that you can only play the £45 game if you connect to it's servers, it also didn't make enough servers. So for the first three days after buying the game most people couldn't use what they bought.
This sort of buisness practice shouldn't be encouraged... but I wanna play it.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:05, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

It's people like you and me that're letting corporations get away with shit like that.
On the one hand that whole "you don't get to keep what you have bought unless we can watch you" thing is well shit. On the other hand, it's a new SimCity game :(((((
( Kroney, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:07, Reply)

If I could be bothered with all the shit involved in repacking etc
I'd pirate it. I pirated spore due to that.

Maybe I should just ignore everything sim city related and forget about it for a month or so.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:10, Reply)

No subways in this one.
Bendy roads, though.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:12, Reply)

I quite want to have 16 little cities in an area all specialised in different things.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:14, Reply)

Subways will be paid for DRM within a month.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:19, Reply)

I really dislike DRM. Fine, if it's expansions or whatever.
But it usually isn't. It's usually stuff that should been in the game on fucking release.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:22, Reply)

Or is in the game, but they deliberatly block it.
The amount of DRM that is already on the disk is ridiculous.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:24, Reply)

So you can't play the game offline at all?
This is why I stopped playing computer games entirely years ago.

that, and actually interacting with real human beings is much, much better use of the pathetically short time we all have on this planet, but meh.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:11, Reply)

Nope, and if EA decide to turn off the servers in 2/5/8 years time
you'll never be able to play it again. It's a right cunt.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 10:13, Reply)