SimCity players to get free game from EA

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  so can you buy BF3 end game with that credit? : Foxhawk
  • Willing to bet it's only valid for older discount titles like NHL 09 or Mass Effect 1 : dumb.
  • fwiw, maxis says: Details are still being worked out, but there will be followup post in several days tha... : Foxhawk
• Maybe it'll be SimCity 4. : DianeOfTheMoon
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  Which one? : nwillard
  • I'm sure it'll be a shitty one. : rtrson
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  They give you Aliens Colonial Marines to show you your experience could be worse. : coyoterys
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    This game is still doing worse than ACM. At least ACM is playable. : TheDr7
    • I wish ACM was unplayable. I wouldn't feel as disgusted with it. : coyoterys
  • Haha that'd be great : FreshwaterAU
  • haha : Fooldozer
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  The Sims!! : watcherxp
  • If so, they'll give free copies of the sims 3, that way they can make a few hundred on DLC from a gift. : kwperley
• lol : pyide
• I bet it's Mass Effect 3 : Ellissd
• Aliens Colonial Marines would be fitting. : Wolfanoz
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  Free game Is gonna be Madden 2008. : AxeMan808
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    :((((((((( : Nixx2004
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      OK, YOU can have Madden 2004. : AxeMan808
      • For GameCube. : pgharavi
• Valid only for multiplayer games that they've taken the servers down for already. : harold.johnson
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  So what went wrong? The short answer is: a lot more people logged on than we expected. More people play : pyide
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    More people played and played in ways we never saw in the beta ahhahaha : mobab
    • they played hard. : losder5000
    • I've built things you people wouldn't believe. : DewFuel
    • how could they play in ways you never saw? you control the ENTIRE system! : shaft
    • They played for more than an hour? : hoov1185
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    They knew exactly how many people would log on. It's the standard excuse companies give when they full we... : enyakk
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      This does seem to happen often, which is why I like that Guildwars2 actually stopped selling copies at la... : Borrowed Ladder
      • SWTOR also had a smooth launch because the had a phased launch with preorders getting priority and then l... : rodneystubbs
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      Also, the quote "if you can't get a stable connection, you're NOT having a good experience" needs to be e... : the archvile
      • WTF are you talking about? I have absolutely no idea if you're serious, but the RMAH had so many issues a... : Curike
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      Which is understandable and perfectly fine (to me anyway), but the main issue is that you need those serv... : jonas54
      • Oh, I absolutely agree. Cutting out the offline playmode entirely isn't acceptable. : enyakk
  • They had preorder numbers. The beta was stupid too, you could only play for 60 minutes. Surprise surprise... : Beady
  • I wonder what the reaction would be if they said "we just plain fucked up" : Schnapple
• On the bright side, if I get a $20 game out of this, SimCity would've costed only $25. : mobab
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  EA you pissed me off with the new Sim City. I didnt buy the game because of your $20 off pre order bonus,... : Noorviko
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    IDK if origin had anything at all to do with this mess : watcherxp
    • Highly doubtful. : GreggD
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      It certainly fucked up the initial launch. People couldn't download the game when it was released because... : Beady
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        I suspect this was related to the final code getting patched really heavily until release, so they couldn : LoioshDwaggie
        • I think it was a bit more than that. That might explain the lack of preload (though really you can preloa... : Beady
• would be amazing if they offered a selection of games where they shut down the servers for them : Unleashed
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  Gamer entitlement is when a company gives you a free game from their library in exchange for waiting an e... : 6UnJ9Wn
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    I need to write a greasemonkey script that looks for any variation of 'gamer' and 'entitlement' and hides... : dumb.
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      No, entitlement from gamers is just more obvious and obnoxious. Count how many facebook groups/steam comm... : 6UnJ9Wn
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        Count how many other products are sold at retail that DO NOT FUNCTION. : AxeMan808
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          If you cherry-pick out problems that are unique to video games it will be impossible to accurately compar... : 6UnJ9Wn
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            Who said anything about continuing to throw money? What even is your argument anymore? BROKEN PRODUCT DOE... : AxeMan808
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              Why don't you read my original reply because I already addressed and refuted that exact point. : 6UnJ9Wn
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                You refuted the fact that the product is broken? Amazing. Or did you refute the fact that people are not ... : AxeMan808
                • Hint: Refuting facts makes you look like an idiot. It is written. : AxeMan808
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            Haha, what? A lot of people who go to restaurants would complain to the manager for sure, what the fuck ... : Wheatloaf
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              Here's a nice big pill you may have difficulty swallowing: every time you pay for a product after purchas... : 6UnJ9Wn
              • So you're giving up the other argument then? We're not entitled now, we're enablers? It's actually OUR FA : AxeMan808
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                You're making a massive generalization. EA's profits have been falling because of the issues they've been : LoioshDwaggie
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                  Bad Company 2 and Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate (on massive sale) were my most recent. So, there's that. : AxeMan808
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                    BC2 was good stuff :) Still a bit buggy at launch, but at least you could play it, and could totally do ... : LoioshDwaggie
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                      I bought it because I'd played that beta map so much! I just recently reinstalled and played a few games.... : AxeMan808
                      • BC2 is still my only actual Preorder, too! I'd get BF3:GOTY with all the DLC at a decent price, but who k... : AxeMan808
          • Really? Look up the number of class action lawsuits out there. I believe EULA typical waive your right t... : kwperley
      • Holy effin' Stockholm syndrome. : Rice-Rocketeer
      • Ugh, just fuck off already. : Conan
      • I don't think expecting the product you purchased to work from the time you bought it is being overly ent... : Galadriel07
      • Dumbest post ever. : wytefang
    • I dont know about you buy spending $60+ on a video game that doesnt work and then being given a random o... : Noorviko
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      I'm going to punch you in the face, but I'm going to give you a slice of cake in exchange. What, you don'... : TrptJim
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        Meant for troll, not for dumb. : TrptJim
        • word up : dumb.
  • An extra week, so far. And people paid for SimCity not "buggy SimCity + random game they don't want" : d fluke
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    i love it when people whine about whiners. gamer entitlement! : Unleashed
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      Sounds like you feel entitled to feel entitled. : 6UnJ9Wn
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        Entitled to use a product customers paid for, weird, right? If this were anything other than a video gam... : Wheatloaf
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          Thanks! I spent a lot of time carefully pressing the "generate random password" button to craft this user... : 6UnJ9Wn
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            "unforeseen bugs that all online games tend to encounter"...I don't have words for this. : Conan
            • hahaha that is genius. : xxx2xxx
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            Unforseen bugs like playing the game? Please. If this was a browser or an Office program people couldn'... : Wheatloaf
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              Because it's easier on his ego than admitting he's taken an indefensible position. : Conan
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                But why? He's just a random front pager with a username that looks like someone puked and passed out on ... : Wheatloaf
                • I guess we're just that lucky. Yay. : Conan
                • I guess we're just that lucky. Yay. : Conan
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              I could cite hundreds, if not thousands of cases where a popular program was rendered inoperable by an up... : 6UnJ9Wn
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                Thousands, really? Please list them, I would like that. What fucking planet are you on? QA is ... : Wheatloaf
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                  I'm not talking about DRM, I'm talking about server issues and bugs. Complaining about DRM is not gamer e... : 6UnJ9Wn
                  • They made a city simulator always online as DRM. News flash. This is a giant QA failure that would ... : Wheatloaf
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                Give me ten examples of a paid software service that was down for 5 days. : singlespace
                • Op Flash Dragon Rising, Red Orchestra 2. Both games promised stuff that still have not been put in the ga... : Noorviko
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                  Playstation 3 : Noorviko
                  • Did PS+ even exist at the time? : Vincent Grayson
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                Please name a few for us. I know of, for example, AWS East EC2 failing for a number of days do to a bug i : LoioshDwaggie
                • For example: EC2 failure in one East EBS for 1 hour 55 minutes: http://arstechnica.com/information-techn... : LoioshDwaggie
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                  After 30+ years of software development do you really think it's inconceivable that thousands of software... : 6UnJ9Wn
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                    You're the one who mentioned thousands of cases. I asked for specifics, so please provide. To assist y... : LoioshDwaggie
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                      Off the top of my head I can think of Diablo 3 as well as various WoW patches. Both of those games had is... : 6UnJ9Wn
                      • "conjecture'. Yes. Exactly. : AxeMan808
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                        Diablo 3 was resolved in under 24 hours (specifically 11:50PM PST on May 15th was the final fix) Source:... : LoioshDwaggie
                        • 4.0.3a downtime: http://www.wowhead.com/news=174605/the-shattering-patch-4-0-3a-the-official-extended-dow... : LoioshDwaggie
                        • Dammit Loiosh, you're bringing the good posts lately. Great stuff, thanks. : Nitrium
                        • No it wasn't resolved in 24 hours because people had Error 14 for weeks and weeks. Fanboy much? : Curike
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                    Now it's theoretically, mathematically conceivable. Over 30 years before online only DRM. Walked th... : Wheatloaf
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                      I think he switched from 'waiting a week for the game to work' to 'any update which causes a product to be unusable' cloud or not.
                      
                      Now as I recall from the product I support, if this were to happen, we inform our customer to downgrade while we escalate a patch. Our customer is able to continue using the older version of the product while we work on the patch and provide it to them. In this case, there is no downgrade, there is no alternative. It either works or it does not, but either way, customers paid $60 for it.
                      
                      He's mocking people for expecting something they paid for to work within 'an extra week or less' and complaining about that fact.
                      
                      I will say that even though EA offered a consolation prize, the offer is irrelevant to the discussion as the point of the discussion is that a product legally paid for is completely unavailable for usage.

                      Mar 09, 2013 2:06am PST
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                      I think he switched from 'waiting a week for the game to work' to 'any update which causes a product to b... : LoioshDwaggie
                      • Lets ease up on the guy a little, he's a frontpager but at least he is getting involved and having a disc... : Borrowed Ladder
                  • There is a huge difference between bugs and what EA did/is doing with Sim City. You are correct, all sof... : merloin
                  • no. this is beyond bugs. this is their architecture, their design. this was flawed before development beg... : Downforce
                  • I know I'm feeding a single-serving troll poster but here goes: none of the issues they're having would h... : Schnapple
          • Your username is as memorable as your posts. i.e., not very. : Broken Canoe
      • This would be an awesome ironic boy band. : losder5000
      • Sounds like you have your head so far up your arse, that lump in your throat is your nose. : Mr. Goodwrench
  • This comment is fucking stupid. I want a free one in return. : jake
  • horrible post is horrible : thewindcriesmary
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    I like that paying up front for a product that is then defective/broken, and being mad about that fact, i... : thetangent
    • ^^This : Volatus32x
  • Are you a master in Wrong-jitsu? Do you hail from Wrongtopia? Because you are wrong. : Kojak2000
  • This word has lost all its meaning and potency because people like you use it everywhere. : The Grolar Bear
  • You know what you're entitled to when something you buy doesn't work? YOUR MONEY BACK, not some product f... : dpgagnon
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    Nice try, Cigarette Paper : shirif
    • hahahaha Z : Nitrium
  • You're dumb and so is your name. : Rehevkor
  • Congrats. You got my first Ugh tag ever. I buy a product with my hard earbned money, you better fuckin... : Solstice
  • I know that's a little contrived," she said. "Kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did so : mobab
• Everyone that has an active key should at the very least get all the Digital Deluxe bullshit and a workin... : hashd
• thats pretty cool of them.... I was never really to concerned with the server issues. Iv come to expect p... : godm0de
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  I guess it's cool that they're doing something to try and make it right. Honestly, I wouldn't have been ... : boarder2
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    Businesses almost never apologize. They'll bargain, they'll give away free stuff, they'll even feign tra... : the archvile
    • Exactly! I only saw a mention of the issues they were having, but never an apology for them. Free game ... : Alpha Geist
    • And maybe it's because they don't, it made it all the more special when John Carmack came out on stage an... : Peanut Fox
• Well that's something at least. : thetangent
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  Ooooooo EA giving away free games ???? I never saw that in the common. : RuskiSnajper
  • Cheapena the industry : loke662
• Everyone gets a free copy of darkspore : FreshwaterAU
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  "I know that’s a little contrived -- kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something : the archvile
  • and note, this came out late on a Friday.. : watcherxp
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    The only reason they give a shit is once it makes 'real news' it will start to hit their share price. : Beady
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      The developers WILL feel bad about this, nobody wants to spend years working on a game that is then poorl... : Borrowed Ladder
      • Oh sure the devs will be. But the developers arent the guys who get to make the decisions about shit like... : Beady
• EA REP: "How do we fix this????" EA MANAGEMENT: "Offer them one of our old shitty games they don't wan... : ajvitaly
• SimCity DLC : Ziz
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  Hey Blizzard. Take a note. : DragonSire
  • Please don't encourage Blizzard and EA to take notes from each other. : Psigun
• i was honestly going to buy this game, but won't anymore and glad i didn't. : xxiv
• Anyone else not able to claim other cities in their region? : Crimsonbeak
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  advanced glassbox simulation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g418BSF6XBQ : Foxhawk
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    Blech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdyzx_ecbQ Even if they fix all the server issues there is s... : Nixx2004
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      I'm sure they'll fix this at some point, but yeah, it is really frustrating to create a big open highway ... : boarder2
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        They need the traffic copter from SimCopter to tell them where the fastest route is, not just the shortes... : Nixx2004
        • That will be in upcoming paid DLC, no doubt. : kwperley
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      If you know how A* pathing works it's 10x more stupid. The way to fix this is part of the basic algorithm... : Tchest
      • Lol youre cute : frush
      • And to be perfectly clear this doesn't make the algorithm run any slower either, it's genuinely the same ... : Tchest
      • First thing you should think of when deciding how cars will pathfind should include how they account for ... : the city
      • A higher cost to "worse" roads? And what's what? If the smaller road isn't congested, it's going to be fa... : Curike
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/19yv00/is_simcity_glassbox_engine_all_bells_and_whistles/ : Foxhawk
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    hahahahaha ohhhh man. facepalllmmmmmm. : Downforce
    • They just patched it... : frush
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    I have little doubt the simulations in the older games were just as weak or weaker but were harder to ins... : derelict515
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      but this game is the one with the simulation that is apparently so fucking revolutionary that you suggest... : Mr. Goodwrench
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        I haven't seen anyone throwing around the words revolutionary. And they're the ones who talked about city... : derelict515
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          I'll leave it this after this comment because you're so pigheaded when it comes to this kind of thing. ... : Mr. Goodwrench
          • have you seen me in a single Simcity thread this week defending this debacle? I didn't buy it and now I w... : derelict515
  • Haha, holy shit. : Mr. Goodwrench
  • it's a Maxis game. if people expected any solid gameplay systems or AI... I wonder if they've played any ... : thebigbeefsandwich
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  Interesting discussion on their twitter: https://twitter.com/simcity/status/310482745732259844 I'm cur... : LoioshDwaggie
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    did you ctrl-v'd your password? : umegastar
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      No but some EA apologist in the thread above claims that how he created his username, using a random pass... : kwperley
      • Apparently he puts the same amount of consideration and time into formulating his opinions as well. : wfalcon