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S.Peelman on 08 March 2013
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JayWood2010 said:
S.Peelman said:
SIMCITY 2013: 76 with userscore 1.5 (!)
SIMCITY 4: 84 with userscore 8.6

Thank you EA.
Should've just let Maxis do their thing.

I still can't believe the stupidity. It was sooo easy. All SimCity fans were waiting for, including myself, was a SimCity 4-clone with more options for building, modern graphics with realistic effects and more in-depth simulation and statistics.

The sad thing is, metascore will only go down significantly, maybe even ending in the 60's! On one hand I hope this game flops hard, but on the other I know EA will just blame Maxis for this.

itll get better over time (not score) with updates.  Just bad at launch but itll improve over time.

Yes, I would hope so.

But besides the online issues, and the obvious drawbacks it introduces (server issues now, connectivity requirement for what should be a single player game, a player's reliance to EA's goodwill to keep this game alive), the major design flaws break the game.

That's what I primarily meant in the "It was sooo easy" paragraph. Design decisions regarding especially regional play and connectivity between cities as well as personalisation and customization of the landscape while basic functions such as subways and highways are missing on top of a city size which is ridiculously small are all twenty steps backwards compared to SimCity 4. DRM is just the icing on the cake.

I've personally never been so disappointed about any game in my life. It's unacceptable when SimCity 4 was so near perfection.