EA Offers Fans Another Chance to Beta Test SimCity

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CommanderFrank

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If you missed the opportunity to give the beta of the upcoming release of SimCity a spin, you are getting another shot at the chance for the one hour gameplay. As before, you will need an EA account for registration, which will be open until February 11th.
 
I give up trying to figure out how to "accept" to download. Tried scrolling through everything, checking the boxes, etc. No 'accept.' What am I missing?
 
Did it but probably wont get accepted since i didnt check the box that said they could share my information.
 
Requires origin.. EA can go Fuck themselves. Waited for this game for years for nothing.
 
I wish they'd integrate SimCity and The Sims together so you could build a city and then load it into The Sims so your characters could live there. That'd be awsome...but there's Origin which from my experience with it, has been kinda a pain. Though it is getting better than it was...lots better. It's almost problem-free really.
 
The sad thing is that it's easier to pirate EA games than it is to wrangle through their draconian thunderfuck of a system.
 
Eisenblut said:
Why are people still surprised that EA games require Origin now?
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Because it is single player and shouldn't require an online client?

Wildace said:
u mad bro?
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As a matter of fact I am..sick and tired of this steady push for PC games into DRM systems that console players don't have to put up with. Also sick and tired of PC gamers continuing to make excuses for why being treated like criminals instead of customers is ok.
 
TheFlosser said:
^ Will break down and install Origin to play game
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Nope..Still haven't broken down and installed Steam either despite there being a ton of games on it I want. It's called standards and some of us actually adhere to them.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Nope..Still haven't broken down and installed Steam either despite there being a ton of games on it I want. It's called standards and some of us actually adhere to them.
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Lol poor guy, I've enjoyed steam for years, but im with you on saying no to orgin, EA can go fuck itself!

Fwiw, my cousin works for EA on Sims games, lol.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Nope..Still haven't broken down and installed Steam either despite there being a ton of games on it I want. It's called standards and some of us actually adhere to them.
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We both know you've played them one way or another.

Stop all the downloadin'!
 
The only reason people complain about DRM is so they feel better about pirating a game they were probably going to pirate anyways.
 
kcmastrpc said:
The only reason people complain about DRM is so they feel better about pirating a game they were probably going to pirate anyways.
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I don't know about anyone else, but EA is the only company whose games I pirate anymore. Mass Effect, Dead Space, the Sims...
 
kcmastrpc said:
The only reason people complain about DRM is so they feel better about pirating a game they were probably going to pirate anyways.
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Some people complain about DRM just so they can seem cool to other people they don't know in a forum where complaining about DRM is popular. :D
 
SkribbelKat said:
I wish they'd integrate SimCity and The Sims together so you could build a city and then load it into The Sims so your characters could live there. That'd be awsome...but there's Origin which from my experience with it, has been kinda a pain. Though it is getting better than it was...lots better. It's almost problem-free really.
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And then roll that into Spore, or well, a less gimped version of Spore, so you can mess with people in a city you built in a universe you created.
 
kcmastrpc said:
Well, someone has to fill the role of pariah.

=D
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Pariah Carey always wore those slutty hooker boots. We don't need any of that around here.

Neurofreeze said:
And then roll that into Spore, or well, a less gimped version of Spore, so you can mess with people in a city you built in a universe you created.
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+1! That'd be a fun combination of stuff mashed together.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Nope..Still haven't broken down and installed Steam either despite there being a ton of games on it I want. It's called standards and some of us actually adhere to them.
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Whatever it takes to justify pirating them, eh? :rolleyes:

Because you can't play games on Steam in offline mode or anything. :rolleyes:
 
Strong EA hate in here , did they kidnap your kids or something?
 
kcmastrpc said:
The only reason people complain about DRM is so they feel better about pirating a game they were probably going to pirate anyways.
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That is the mother of all assumptions. Just because you haven't had problems with DRM doesn't mean they don't exists. I'm looking at a shelf of popular franchises right now that died in "part" because of their DRM.
 
TheFlosser said:
We both know you've played them one way or another.

Stop all the downloadin'!
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Nope, I haven't downloaded a game I haven't purchased in at least 8 years.

kcmastrpc said:
The only reason people complain about DRM is so they feel better about pirating a game they were probably going to pirate anyways.
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SkribbelKat said:
Some people complain about DRM just so they can seem cool to other people they don't know in a forum where complaining about DRM is popular. :D
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No, some of us complain about it because we are utterly opposed to it. Not everyone who shuns DRM is a pirate.

Eisenblut said:
Whatever it takes to justify pirating them, eh? :rolleyes:

Because you can't play games on Steam in offline mode or anything. :rolleyes:
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See above. Don't make jackass assumptions.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Because it is single player and shouldn't require an online client?
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I believe their justification is that other people's cities influence things in your city like immigration rates and what not. Kind of like Sim City 4 except instead of you making all the cities they let others make cities and call it an "online experience" so it doesn't make them seem all douchie with the DRM.
 
kcmastrpc said:
The only reason people complain about DRM is so they feel better about pirating a game they were probably going to pirate anyways.
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Well if the person was going to pirate the game anyway then that means they were never going to buy it in the first place, therefore the DRM is entirely pointless.

Since we've just concluded logically (form your assumption) that DRM is pointless, the people legitimately buying games have a decent reason to be kinda pissed about being tethered to an internet connection to play their single-player game.
 
RealityCrunch said:
That would certainly be nice. Seems here at [H] you're simply assumed guilty.
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There are several high-and-mighty anti-piracy types around here that come out of the woodwork to jump on stuff like this. It's pretty sad, actually.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Nope, I haven't downloaded a game I haven't purchased in at least 8 years.

No, some of us complain about it because we are utterly opposed to it. Not everyone who shuns DRM is a pirate.

See above. Don't make jackass assumptions.
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So, I guess you never played a single game that had SafeDisc or SecuROM on it, either.
 
I just preordered a dvd version

i get to wait for the ups truck with that happy face and wag

then install and play

been a while since i was interested in a sim city game.

this edition looks wicked !!
 
Eisenblut said:
Why are people still surprised that EA games require Origin now?
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Because it has the word EA in the title... this makes people angry, because EA are the worst company in the world ever! Worse than those banks who destroyed the economy and companies who pillage pollute the earth with toxins and murder third world villages for profit and stuff. I know that Origin is the exact same thing as Steam, (apart from offline mode works and you don't have to even sign in to load most the games and then have more than 1 support guy who owns a phone and checks his email more than once a week) and Valve do almost every single thing they do, but, it's bad dude, because it is damnit!!!
 
Installed Origin for BF3, can't say I cared then and still don't care about having to use it now either.
 
jfolds said:
I just preordered a dvd version

i get to wait for the ups truck with that happy face and wag

then install and play

been a while since i was interested in a sim city game.

this edition looks wicked !!
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still need Origin to play. :D
 
I actually tried a few of The Sims games for a while several years ago. I really wasn't too impressed by them. The only thing that made it even mildly interesting was the nude patch. But even that got boring after a short time. In the end, it all made me feel as if I were playing with dolls (like a little kid). The install disks just sit and collect dust now.

The game might have some potential if certain things were changed. It might be more interesting if were all setup like an interactive chatroom kinda thing with REAL english and all the characters representing REAL people. Perhaps maybe a VR sorta thing like in The Lawnmower Man.

Such as it is....it's just not any fun to me.
 
Eisenblut said:
So, I guess you never played a single game that had SafeDisc or SecuROM on it, either.
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Grasping for straws a bit much there? Apples to oranges but I'll explain anyhow.

First That was many years ago and I was much younger and didn't understand DRM like I do today. Also, it doesn't really compare. I would still buy a game with that on it today for a very simple reason. I purchase the game and then download whatever no cd crack is applicable. I therefore have Legally purchased the game and as such am not pirating it and I am disabling the DRM that I so abhor on a product that I legally own. However the two still hardly compare and if that is the best argument you can muster, this conversation is effectively over.

I don't support DRM schemes that treat paying customers like they are pirates. I fail to see what is so hard to understand about that. Forcing the use of something like Origin or Steam on a completely single player game like Sim city is as thinly disguised DRM as it gets. If you want to use platforms like that, more power to you. I simply took a stance years ago to not continue supporting anti consumer practices. As for Consoles themselves being DRM, well that is so easily circumvented it is laughable to compare. But again, apples to oranges as I never have to connect my console to the internet to make single player games work, so yea not the same.

prndll said:
I actually tried a few of The Sims games for a while several years ago. I really wasn't too impressed by them. The only thing that made it even mildly interesting was the nude patch. But even that got boring after a short time. In the end, it all made me feel as if I were playing with dolls (like a little kid). The install disks just sit and collect dust now.

The game might have some potential if certain things were changed. It might be more interesting if were all setup like an interactive chatroom kinda thing with REAL english and all the characters representing REAL people. Perhaps maybe a VR sorta thing like in The Lawnmower Man.

Such as it is....it's just not any fun to me.
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To be entirely fair, Sim City and the Sims have virtually nothing in common. I am a huge Sim city fan and have never liked the Sims. Really The sims are nothing more than a more involved farmville for middle aged women. Though I won't bash it too hard as at least unlike farmville it is a real game.
 
Why are people still complaining about Origin? It works fine, loads faster than Steam. I even had Steam crash on me about a month ago. Had to use task mangaer to kill it.
 
Silverghost said:
Why are people still complaining about Origin? It works fine, loads faster than Steam. I even had Steam crash on me about a month ago. Had to use task mangaer to kill it.
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Some aren't so lucky? I have to kill origins processes almost daily.
 
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