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Eric the Mauve posted:

Posting this here because it really is a perfect summary of what happened with this game and deserves to be in the OP or second post:

See, at first I thought all this constant hullabaloo in my newsfeeds was simply to do with the servers crashing for the first few days. Which more or less seems to happen to every AAA game that requires an internet connection anymore. It really seemed like the typical thing where gamers make a huge fuss over mostly nothing, such as that recent time where everyone pre-ordered Colonial Marines without reading reviews and now think that they can sue SEGA for releasing gameplay videos. (I predict that getting Dikembe Mutumbo'd out of court pretty quickly).

Now we get down to:

-SimCity is not a AAA game at all
-Does nothing with its internet gameplay components except make you wish there were none at all
-Continues to have server problems

Coincidentally, I dropped $5 on Spore the other day, that other infamously underwhelming Maxis game ($5 is a fair price and the first time I had ever seen it on sale in five years). For the first two days after the Steam sale, the servers were down.

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What am I supposed to be observing over the course of this video?

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Broken Loose posted:

The city you are watching is literally just a big mass of residential zoning. No utilities. No commercial. No industrial. People move to this suburban hellhole so they can never have running water or get a job, but it's fine because the taxes are at 0%.

Oh, so this is SimCity: Ron Paul Revolution Edition.

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