SimCity [Megathread]

[Ben Grapevine]

can someone explain why a largely single player franchise needs always-on DRM?

if you can actually answer this question you're probably an starfish.

Preventing piracy


I can get into the launcher but when I launch the game it plays music but no .exe appears.  I checked task manager and it says it is running (LIES).

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[Operator¹]

can someone explain why a largely single player franchise needs always-on DRM?

if you can actually answer this question you're probably an starfish.

because EA doesn't want their game pirated (even though it's stupid to have drm in the first place).

[Ben Grapevine]

because EA doesn't want their game pirated (even though it's stupid to have drm in the first place).

The amount of people that actually pirate games are so small they aren't even losing that much money

[Comatose]

Preventing piracy


I can get into the launcher but when I launch the game it plays music but no .exe appears.  I checked task manager and it says it is running (LIES).

That happened to me on first launch. Let it sit and run its course.

[Ben Grapevine]

That happened to me on first launch. Let it sit and run its course.

How long did it take to "run it's course"?

[Comatose]

How long did it take to "run it's course"?

About 5 minutes.

[Nickelob Ultra]

can someone explain why a largely single player franchise needs always-on DRM?

if you can actually answer this question you're probably an starfish.

Fluid multiplayer mostly, with "online market" used as well to make it seem less like DRM.

[Ben Grapevine]

About 5 minutes.

Okay because if it takes longer than the 210 minutes remaining to talk to someone from origin ima bust a nut

EDIT: It's hasn't worked and it's been almost 10 minutes

[Nickelob Ultra]

Looks like launch problems are still plaguing and probably will for a good portion of the night.  Maybe tomorrow/Thursday things will get better.

[tails]

Looks like launch problems are still plaguing and probably will for a good portion of the night.  Maybe tomorrow/Thursday things will get better.

Haha, Nope you've still got the rest of the world that isn't america waiting to get in, This isn't ending until at least friday NEXT week.

[Comatose]

Okay because if it takes longer than the 210 minutes remaining to talk to someone from origin ima bust a nut

EDIT: It's hasn't worked and it's been almost 10 minutes

Restart Origin once more.

[Ben Grapevine]

Restarted Origin, launched SimCity (got the same result as last time), and then waited for 7.5 minutes to no avail.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Haha, Nope you've still got the rest of the world that isn't america waiting to get in, This isn't ending until at least friday NEXT week.

From what I hear the EU servers aren't having as bad of a problem unless there's a stuffload of Americans still trying to play on them.  So yeah you're right.

[AvailsMew]

"Unable to create city at this time"

forget you EA

[tails]

I read again and erm. I don't know, Have a picture.