Wow, after the whole Mass Effect 3 fiasco and it's forced multiplayer, now, i am forced to deal with other people in the new Sim City.

Okay, pass for me. Please, for gawd sakes, not every single game needs some sort of multiplayer. To be honest, this sounds like a glorified farm ville or city ville with a fancy engine. Sometime, i want to be forever alone, so, let me be forever alone then.

EA is definitely the new Ubisoft, they are trying so hard to put people off from buying their games.

Dont think i'll get this. This is very much a fancy version of farmville.

Seriously, let me play the game on my own. Not forcing me to interact with some random douchebag.

Seriously, always online and cloud save. Did EA missed the memo from Ubisoft and Blizzard that always online doesnt work?

I was looking forward to this, but when i saw always online, then, i was really put off.

I'll be playing Anno 2070 then, at least they backtracked from their always online crap half way. You still need internet connection to get all your Ark bonuses.

I kinda like it, cause it has the scale model city sort of feel.

Probably around RM150, i guess.

Please support original. If you can afford a decent PC, you can afford some originals. No one is asking you to buy every game on day 1.

From what i had found, no modding for the new Sim City. If you want new buildings or features, buy EA's well priced DLCs.

After what happened with Diablo 3's awful always online system and also how bad were Ubisoft's always online systems, i wont be buying this game, knowing that this will not turn out well on release too. EA has one of the worst server stability among other devs, as i heard rumors that they used a lot of those cheap low performance servers to run their games, which result a lot of down time and low stability.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jan 3 2013, 03:43 PM

The best bet is Anno 2070. That games does city building incredibly well, while there are some minor RTS element. And Ubisoft backed off from always online DRM, mostly.

Considering that EA has screwed up NFS, Battlefield, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and so on, I doubt they wont screw up the new Sim City.

Also, expect to see microtrasaction shops in the game too, like pay 5USD for some in game money as financial "aid" for your city.

I dont mind if its comestic items, but knowing EA, they will probably give players advantages if they decide to pay up or make those random, gambling like packs that gives you random stuff each time you pay, just like those in ME3 multiplayer.

Microtrasaction is ok, if the items are cosmestic only or it speeds up process, but when you start altering gameplay by giving massive advantages or putting exclusive paid only gameplay affecting content, that is when you cross the line, while the game becomes pay2win.

Just a note about the wonderful always online DRM.