Sim City 5

[apsham]

The same person who found the "building outside of the city limits" exploit was also able to turn off the disconnect timer so he can play as long as he wants after disconnecting - only having to reconnect to save his game.

Marvelous.

[Dan]

http://simcity-mods.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

[apsham]

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-8

So they're going to fix the traffic issues, but people going to a different house/job every night is intentional - which kind of makes sense. Tracking that number of people and making sure they go to a specific place all of the time would be a pain in the ass as far as processing goes.

[Dan]

Neither of my cities in the EWB region will load, what a load of shit.

[MDK]

Good job its all online, eh?

[Herr Matzat]

Monday is free game day, issent it? I wonder what it will be, Sim City is fairly famely frindly. Maybe it´s The Sims 3 because it´s old, has tons of extras you could buy and was don by maxis. Otherwise maybe an older Need for Speed? What else is there on Origne? >_>

[MDK]

Fifa 95

[Herr Matzat]

Seems legit.

[apsham]

Free game day? Is that an Origin thing?

[King Ellis]

A free game they're offering to Sim City 5 owners to compensate for the launch issues.

I would figure it'd be something like Matzat says in The Sims 3 or maybe a choice of one game of say $10-20 value. Can't imagine it'll be something like Dead Space 3 or Crysis 3.

[Herr Matzat]

Here is the list of games that you will be able to choose from once you are able to redeem. It’s a great list of games across the whole EA portfolio, so pick one and add it to your Origin library on us!

• Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
• Bejeweled 3
• Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
• Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
• Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition)
• Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
• Plants vs. Zombies
• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

http://www.ea.com/news/for-our-patient-and-amazing-mayors---a-free-pc-download-from-origin-

I think i´ll go with Battlefield 3 or Dead Space 3. //Need for Speed MW looks good aswell. //Oh wait, Battlefield is a FPS? I thought it was a third person one... than it´s DS3 vs NFS.

On thursday.

[Dan]

Oh sweet, already got BF3 and SC4. Think I'll go for Dead Space 3 too, although MW is tempting,m I've already got an "offline" version of it.

[Herr Matzat]

It looks like heeps of fun. yep. Since the internet tells me that Dead Space 3 is not nealry as good as its predecesors (which i have not even played) i might go with MW.

But i also can recomend the seemingly smal titles. Bejewelled is one of these games you might actualy play more than all the other games over the comming years. >_> I know my dad dos.

[apsham]

Holy shit - that's ten times better than I expected it would be, and they're even offering up SimCity 4.. not bad, not bad at all.

At the same time, some people are working on a patch that reroutes saves from the cloud to local so... yeah.

[KevinStorm]

Review scores for Medal of Honor Warfighter are...not good.

[Herr Matzat]

Bejeweled on the other hand might entertain you years from now.

[DoubleX]

Question for all you fine folks who already have SimCity and have been playing it.

Do I get this game?

I have heard all kinds of stories, and I don't know if they're isolated things or are things that are affecting lots of people. I have played several SimCity games in the past and enjoyed them, and from watching Youtube videos it looks pretty cool. So do I buy the game, or do I wait until they have fixed everything?

[Crybaby Bunting]

If you buy it soon enough you'll get the best city management game ever created

for free as a bonus for buying this shitty game at full price

[MDK]

Is it patched yet? I'm waiting until the game gets sorted out before I buy it.

[Herr Matzat]

It´s getting patched often. At least once per week i belive. For 21€ this is a good game, it´s just wastly different from what the series was before. You don´t build and grow your city anymore, it´s required to evolve it all the time, tare down things, replace specilisation ect. - That said long term motivation tied to one city might be smaler than with the old games, but it´s not a bad game.

Anno 2070 is on sale right now. Buildings don´t evolve as cool, but it sort of is sim city 5 style at a bigger scale. (production chaines, different resources in different places of the region ect.) So maybe look at this untill SC5 gets cheaper.

http://www.gamefly.co.uk/Download-Anno-2070/5002343/

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