Not only was this the first SimCity in several years, allowing for massive development time, it also had the enormous resources of EA behind it. The scope and reading the fine print promised to be amazing. You could stick to every person in your city around since they went through their daily lives, you can interact with other cities in the area via trading, gifts, as well as cooperation on Great Works, and you may also play an antagonistic version against other people by transmitting criminals and pollution into importance (via indirect methods of crafting your own town).
The company claims it's because of several unique and important features in the game. It's a good story, but we all know it's their attempt to battle piracy. Like most good mass media companies, EA has taken the attitude that the paying customer must suffer if it implies piracy may be diminished.
In this case, buyers have discovered it impossible to play the game. Open the software program, and try and reach the main menu? You're placed into a " server queue" of 20+ minutes. And once you load up your current region? Several have found themselves kicked out of the program when they try to enter their own city. Worse, once inside, after an hour of work, many have found their advancement was not saved. Others have found the program telling them if they want to revert to an earlier save or to let go of the city and start again. Bug are rampant also.
It's difficult to divine virtually any explicit political motivation from the founding of SimCity. The game's maker, Will Wright, simply wanted to create a model of precisely how infrastructure systems interacted with each other as cities grew. Because it's a single-player video game, though, he built a world that's essentially statist: The Mayor, not individuals or the private industry, decides the shape of his city. The administration owns the utilities and all major commercial infrastructure, and cities are built from the ground up, more like they typically are these days in not-terribly-democratic locations like China and Saudi Arabia than in the already messy landscape of city America. Social movements—religion, racial justice, rights for gay people—are fully elided. That choice might have been important to avoid incalculable difficulty, but it's also given rise to a Marxist fantasyland, in which all earners can be manipulated by altering the situations of their habitat.
Not merely did the game not add blended use, but now strength is tied to the kind of path you build (not transit or zoning). Desire a modern subway system? Nope, disconnected, even though every video game in the series has let you build one. Streetcars? They’ve been added – but only functioning in the middle of a 6 lane “avenue.” Pedestrian department shops? Of course not, and don’t even ask about bikes.
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