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Their message is clear: What happened with SimCity is not OK. Their demands are simple: Remove the always-online requirement from SimCity and future games.
And they are legion.
Their change.org petition has almost 75,000 signatures. Who knows if it will have any real-world effects, but at least it’s keeping the dialogue up. That’s what we’re doing here, after all. Hell, they could have done this on whitehouse.gov and forced Obama to chime in.
Thanks, simpsonfreak1120!
Sure, let’s remove the Online component!
Minus the fact that would break the game and render it useless. Online was never secret and it’s integrated into the game. Remove it and the game ceases to be.
Seriously? You played the game? Hardly, when you see how you can play a region on your own. The storing of cities on the server would be the hardest part, and even that would be just simply writing the data to a local file rather then to a database on their server, and loading from that. In another sense, the game is already useless in its current state. After about 5 hours of playing on a city, it will slowly start to fall apart no matter what you do, as all sorts of pathing glitches occur.
The DLC controversy and ending debacle that happened with Mass Effect 3 was enough to make me lose trust in EA. I know the quality of BioWare’s products, and that wasn’t it. Since then I’ve just decided to avoid every EA game that is launched and I seem to always find myself on the “I told you so” side of things.
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