SimCity System Requirements, Multiplayer Detailed, More

[xenol]

Reasons why Origin is balls compared to Steam, maybe Impulse (I haven't used it, but it sounds similar) and other digital distributors. And this is from the BF3 initial version.

1. If you quit Origin during a download, you have to restart it.
2. You can't interrupt an update of the game. If you do, you have to restart it. And you can't play the game without the update.
3. You MUST have an internet connection to play the game, even if you aren't playing multiplayer (Steam has an Offline mode)
4. And you don't run the game from the program itself. You run it from a web browser. This has all sorts of security compromise implications.

So yeah. Origin is a piss poor attempt at being a digital distributor on the likes of Steam and Impulse. Even the PSN store does it better (well, that's a bad comparison...)

 

[Filiprino]

SimCity 3000 had historic buildings from all over the world, without any special edition needed.

EA is milking the users as always.

 

[giovanni86]

Can people get over Origin. Honestly, like steam didn't have that issue.... Well at least i am one of the very few that has had 0 issues with it, i must be lucky or just computer literate. The game looks nice, i had SimCity 3000 myself with the big book it came with, but i played it only in the beginning stages of the game and then got bored and went back to CS/SC. I might give this a try, but I'm not spending much to try it out though.

 

[upgrade_1977]

Awesome, definitely getting this game. Love SimCity, bringing back memories of it on the nintendo 64. Great recommended specs, should run like a dream on any modern PC. 😀

 

[upgrade_1977]

[citation][nom]giovanni86[/nom]Can people get over Origin. Honestly, like steam didn't have that issue.... Well at least i am one of the very few that has had 0 issues with it, i must be lucky or just computer literate. The game looks nice, i had SimCity 3000 myself with the big book it came with, but i played it only in the beginning stages of the game and then got bored and went back to CS/SC. I might give this a try, but I'm not spending much to try it out though.[/citation]

I hate origin, keep having sync issues and it seems like it updates every time I log in. Anyways, thats just me though. On a positive note, I just bought sims 3 last night on sale for 10 bucks on steam, and when I signed into the online, it asked for my origin account, and now it's on steam and origin. So thats good. I can play at work without worrying about compromising my steam account.

 

[bloc97]

Support for : Intel 4100 Integrated Graphics or better*

Dang, I hoped for awsome graphics...

 

[eddieroolz]

This keeps getting better. Very excited for this to hit stores.

 

[A Bad Day]

I'll be waiting for a few years for EA or the modding community to iron out any glaring bugs, and for the price to be more reasonable. SC4 has quite a bit, even after all of the patches and bug-fixing mods.

 

[Wisecracker]

Nice, I could dig a computer out of the trash and play the new SimCity on it.

Versions of SimCity will run on (nearly) anything built since 1980 including 'original gaming' consoles and early PCs. It ran on the first original monochrome IBM PCs and really started to 'shine' in 16 colors on 6/8 MHz 80286 computers in DOS.

So . . . fancy hardware does little to improve the experience of SimCity.

SimCity 3000 had historic buildings from all over the world, without any special edition needed.

EA is milking the users as always.

Don't hold me to this but if I remember correctly SC3K was the last version to use 'animated sprites.' Subsequent versions use actual 3D models so importing things like the Eiffel Tower from SC3K just wouldn't work, anyway.

But the good news you can model anything you want and import it with the Building Architect Tool add-on. I have a little tiny model of my old house that I use.

If so inclined, you could model a butt-head neighbor's house and drop a tornado on the sum beech

:lol:

 

[sockso]

I was excited until I heard EA was involved. You're all entitled to your own opinions, but EA has rubbed me the wrong way too much to earn my dollars anymore.

 

[alidan]

o yay, i was happy when i first read about new sim city... but than i forgot what year i live in, and how 10 years ago, we didnt get screwed like this.

so... over a year form launch, and they are already detailing how to screw us...
just when i begin to have faith in humanity again... taken away.

tune in next week, dlc announcement.

i was planning to suffer origin for sim city, but i need to pay 80$ at least for the full game (note how limited and deluxe dont say they share any of the extra content, its possible that you need to pay 140$ for all the day 1 content, not counting any dlc)

safe to say, all excitement for the game is taken away... i am so not buying this till at the very least a game of the year edition.

 

[nebun]

like i said before, consoles are underpowered for this game....PC to the rescue

 

[LongpastPNR]

Not to mention EA games is PRO SOPA and PIPA ! and Origins is just wrong and untell EA apologises to Steam/Valve and puts there games back up on Steam with all the DLC ect then EA games will never see a dollar from me again simple as that Fxxx you EA games you wrecked it for everyone.

 

[Guest]

windows only? does maxis not know it's 2012?

 

[zachusaman]

Electronic Arts has posted a single list via Origin
via origin
origin
day 1 pirate, though if its good im sending maxis 60 bucks.
I wont buy it off that godawful spyware, but i will support good developers.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Hope it'll be available on steam and not just origin then. I don't have ME3 for the single reason that I can't buy it on steam

 

[Guest]

I can not believe that this will not be available as a stand alone on a MAC! Big mistake!

 

[Netuno_SP]

The truth about new SimCity (2013)
SimCity (2013): The Deception Continues ...

sc2013thedeception.blogspot.com

 

[mesis8287]

Will I be ok to have this memory card for the game? :

Zotac
ZT-60603-20L NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 Zone Edition 1024MB DDR3 PCIe Video Card

Doesnt anymore know or recommend I go up bigger? On tight budget and dont want to spend so much. not extreme gamer. Average gamer! But this game does look awesome!

 

[Guest]

"The reason people pirate is because of pricing, and instead of dealing with that like any normal competitive system, every game developer now sales their games at $59.99 and throws in DRM crap. Great competition amiright? "

No. It's a bit more subtle than that. They charge what the "honest" (Well, non-pirate) people are prepared to pay, no more and no less. Then people pirate *regardless* of pricing - see the article below re: Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album being heavily pirated despite the band virtually giving it away. Ok it's music rather than video games but it makes the point. I've also seen "No-CD" hacks for budget games if you want to stick with the video game industry for example.

http://consumerist.com/2007/10/18/in-rainbows-pirated-a-lot-despite-name-your-price-deal/