Author Topic: SimCity  (Read 1868 times)

In one of the videos a developer says that a large part of the city simulation is done on EA servers and the data is then sent to your computer.
It almost appears as if EA doesn't trust the individual consumer to handle city simulation. I understand that some people may not be able to handle it, but couldn't there be an option to disable that? It is sort of looking in my opinion as an excuse of EA to take control out of the player.

It almost appears as if EA doesn't trust the individual consumer to handle city simulation. I understand that some people may not be able to handle it, but couldn't there be an option to disable that? It is sort of looking in my opinion as an excuse of EA to take control out of the player.
It's more against pirates than the players. What you just said is just stupid.

It won't stop pirates. Assassins creed 2 needed a connection to the ubisoft server, So they made a server emulator.

It's more against pirates than the players. What you just said is just stupid.
My apologies.

Not if they eventually charge monthly.
uhhh
i would cry if that happened

It won't stop pirates. Assassins creed 2 needed a connection to the ubisoft server, So they made a server emulator.
Except EA servers are doing calculations not just making sure your game is legit. Theoretically you could make a pirate server where the game connects to but then you'd need to hack into EA servers and clone them to get the code to simulate the cities and whatnot.

I'm not liking this "EA calculates the game for you".  I understand it's for the whole global economic idea but really I don't want to partake in the whole world's economy.  This is just balony.

I'm not liking this "EA calculates the game for you".  I understand it's for the whole global economic idea but really I don't want to partake in the whole world's economy.  This is just balony.
bologna*


Well this died down quickly

The always-online thing is dumb as hell, but it probably won't bother me too much. SimCity has got to be my second most anticipated game of 2013, next to Starbound.

Why should I care about this "always online?"

I don't care.


Will this run on my not-so-you-cant-play-skyrim-and-shaders laptop?