SimCity 5 coming March 5, 2013

[mctoad]

We all knew it was going to happen, and since everyone bought it, EA is encouraged to keep making games full of DRM.

[MRA]

It's a nightmare so far. left a city that had a population of over 100k went back and it was like 30k
almost every time I go back into a city in any region i'm in it's not how i left it-like it saved an hour or two before i left. is there a 'save' button i'm missing or some procedure i'm not completing correctly? very discouraging.

You city plays on turtle speed while your away .......maybe u just lost 70k Sims lol

[MRA]

I keep getting login is closed try again later, then it retries and tells me my info is not right...arrrrrgh

[JoeLouie]

I couldn't get the game to launch at all, whether I tried the shortcut on the desktop, or from Origin. I ended up running Simcity Recovery in the start menu and after a few minutes up fixing whatever was wrong it works now. Still troubles logging into some of the servers, but at least the game launches now.

[soxfan5]

I keep getting login is closed try again later, then it retries and tells me my info is not right...arrrrrgh

Yea it's fucked up again, it keeps saying you're starting and stopping the game. I got an update when I started it up, now after a restart it still says checking for updates. It won't let me select a server. I can finally see everyone I added to origin though.

[JoeLouie]

It launches tomorrow in Europe and Friday in the UK, so I can't see it getting much better over the next few days as more people are trying to play. I can understand servers being Busy because of the amount of players, but it's annoying to log into a city to see that I've lost 1/3 of my population, and the last time it saved it was actually half an hour before I last quit.

[chainsaw]

I may check this out in a few months then when they have the launch bugs somewhat straightened out lol

[JoeLouie]

People are pretty much lining up with pitchforks on the EA forums over the launch of this game

[mctoad]

[PDizzle]

lol
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Art...cm_rdp_product

[JoeLouie]

Notice the 1.2 out of 5 stars? lol

The actual gameplay itself is great. I have no issues at all as far as the game is concerned. I just want the server issues resolved so I can actually play this game that I paid $70 for 3 days ago and have only been able to connect on the first day.

[arsehole]

392 of 415 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Simcity, an overpriced 20 minute countdown timer., March 5, 2013
By Mark (GA, USA) - See all my reviews





yeah...I'll wait this one out for a Origin sale haha

[Boots]

So I just got back from Ottawa. What's the status on the servers?

[Boots]

Answered for myself. Game won't even load. Weak.

[MRA]

I can not connect at all

[Bandit]

i spent all day wanting to come home and buy this game. maybe i should just wait

[soxfan5]

Definitely wait. It's not worth the frustration right now.

Why do people still buy EA games? This shit happens every time.

This will be the last one for me.

[MRA]

DRM is no big deal you all told me...it's fine....................See I could be playing right now if there was an offline mode....I told you EA servers suck balls

[nb132]

This is crazysauce. Oddly there were no delays processing payments. Then again, that's all they are good at though-taking our money

[Bandit]

i was just on ea's site, not even a mention of the issues that if found

[Bandit]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03...r_server_woes/

Amazon has pulled the game

[Wayne]

Glad I didn't buy it yet due to being busy...I think I will wait it out or pass altogether. It's too bad, game looked awesome.

[JoeLouie]

The game is awesome once you get past the friggin' server problems. I notice that they've opened up a few more servers yesterday/today. Still couldn't get on, but at least they're obviously doing something.

[Boots]

Have you tried it today?

[MRA]

Have you tried it today?

30 minute login timer right now

[Scott]

this is almost worst then the shitty Real Racing 3 app they put out that makes you wait an absurd amount of time to do things.

[Boots]

30 minute login timer right now

Have you tried an alternate server?

[JoeLouie]

I've been able to connect to servers most of the time but once I'm there I can't start or load a city.

[Boots]

sweet!