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S.Peelman on 17 March 2013
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Ledreppe said:

I wish people would stop moaning about this game. I've played it for 84 hours since release day, with minimal disruption. It's a fantastic entry into the SimCity franchise. Just forget all the always online and just take it for what it offers, which is a thourghly entertaining game.

For anyone who thinks this game has microtransactions (I've seen someone talking about them), I haven't come across any so far, and I don't think there are any.

If you don't want to play with others online, then just create a private game when you select your region, it's as simple as that! You can then invite friends, later, if you change your mind. The gameplay is significantly enhanced while playing online with others anyway, but IT IS optional if you don't want to.

A lot of people whining about this game haven't even played it, and don't actually know what it's like. So shutup and play it before spilling your vile online.

What puts me off from this game, besides the online which is an immediate 'no-sale' anyway, is the fact that this game has nothing on SimCity 4.

This game's gameplay options are unrealistic and limited in nearly every field, when you could freely build everything you wanted, the way you wanted in SimCity 4. And 2000 and 3000 for that matter. It does so many steps backwards, it's unforgivable. It doesn't even look as good as SimCity 4! I usually don't care that much about graphics, I do expect there to be an improvement compared to previous entries. In a lot of areas, we're right back where we started with SimCity in the late '80s. If you were going to make a game that focussed on city interaction, you can't sell the fact that there is no real, customizable, buildable interaction in any way. That you are forced to obide by whatever boundaries (both literaly and figuratively) EA's random map generator gives you. All of this it directly accountable to their focus on this useless online aspect, which in turn means you can count on The Sims style add-ons (wether they'd be DLC or not) in the future.

There probably aren't a lot of people in the world who put in more hours into this franchise than me, which means I am thoroughly disappointed and quite frankly, the game ruined the franchise for me. To put it bluntly in response to the thread title; "Well, EA, your so-called vision, sucks."