Yes, as console gamers we should still be concerned about what is going on with PC games, because it will sooner or later be a console problem too.
That's what you get SimCity!
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 On 03/12/2013 at 09:48 PM by NSonic79 See More From This User » |
Looks like someone didn’t learn from Diablo III's release.
Oh how the mighty have fallen! I tried to hold off in writing this, I really did. I’m not a PC gaming so this game really doesn’t affect me. I will probably NEVER get around to trying this game out. Others have already done a thorough job in kicking EA for the huge failure in SimCity’s release. So why should I join in given that PC gaming is not my forte. The answer for that is simple: as a console gamer this is something we ALL should be concerned about, PC game or not.
We all should’ve seen this coming. After what we saw with the game release of Diablo III it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone that SimCity (also a single player game) would run into the same issues as what plagued Diablo III. Both games are forced to have a secondary program running in the background to allow the game to load. And both games force a constant-on DRM to even be able to play the game PERIOD, even with the single player modes. But you’d think that given the game’s pedigree one would be able to overlook the shortfalls that have suffered SimCity.
And for the most part their right. Look at what happened to Diablo III in the end. People still soldiered on and were able to enjoy the game once all the bugs of the new system implementations were ironed out. Yet people seem to forget is that despite the fact the problems were overcome, the damage to the game franchises name was already done. They don’t like to talk about how many people just game up on trying to play the game or tried to pirate the game. Despite the high number of subscribers to Diablo III, no one will say out loud about how those numbers could’ve been better?
And the sad part about all of this is that this entire situation could’ve been avoided if no background programs or constant-on DRM was even used. Diablo III didn’t learn this lesson
And now it looks like SimCity didn’t learn it either. It’s like the exact same situation. All you have to do is replace the wording “Diablo III” with “SimCity” and this writing could easily be interchanged between two completely different games, and yet stay on subject!
It’s come to the point with this failed game launch that EA is going to give a free game to SimCity players to help appease the fact that the game they paid full price for wasn’t even accessible day one. But like the above mentioned game before it the damage is already been done. I wonder how many gamers out there gave up altogether in just trying out this game upon hearing the headaches one received in just getting it to work. Think of all the lost sales of this game, the damage to the SimCity name and all the gamers that use to care for SimCity, turning to Sim alternatives.
There's really no point in me joining in on kicking the dead horse (since the horse I'm sure has been reduced to a bloody pulp by now) so instead I'll just say I recall the very warning during my Diablo III blog in reguards to SimCity: Trying to justify a single player game to have a MMORPG type constant-on connection is never a good idea. It’s bad enough that both games require a secondary background program to run in but the constant on just doesn’t make sense. I hope that makers of console games (and the console makers themselves) think twice about trying to pull this off in the next gaming generation. One of the first thoughts that came into my mind about hearing word of Diablo III being ported to the PS4 was “will it require a secondary program to run? Will it require my system to be online to even play?”
After seeing what happened to SimCity I sure hope the people behind Diablo III’s port-over are thinking twice about that notion. As I’m sure many other games out there will reconsider a next generation console purchase if Microsoft and Sony decide to try these PC exclusive features. I know it would herald my move to retro gaming all the more quicker.
Ta-ta
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