It's a bullshit excuse for DRM. Previous SimCity games didn't force multiplayer down players' throats, because you don't need it in a city simulation game. Having it as an option is always great; making it integral to the game functioning is a cheap excuse for DRM.

What if I just want to run my own city without having to hope that whoever I join in a region isn't a raging dick? Making multiplayer compulsory (either that, or manage an entire region) for a game franchise that never had it as a requirement is an idiotic idea, especially considering how many pre-pubescent morons get…

Serious question: Are you a paid commenter?

I wonder how much EA is paying for the "aw shucks, lay off EA, they're good guys!" comments. They're not really getting good product for their money. Regardless, EA screwed the pooch by making this game 1) be horseshit if you just want to run *one* city on your own and 2) need to always be online to play. These are…

This is hilarious. Did you just walk out of 1955?

"Scrappy" and "gritty" white players and "athletic" and "lazy" non-white players. That's the spectrum used by shitty sports writers.

No. It was, and is, a dumb, lazy word used by dumb, lazy sports writers. Grinder and gritty mean nothing. These words are commonly used when sports writers can't find a logical and fact-based reason for why a shitty ballplayer is employed by an MLB team. It's like when all-around shitty catchers make a team and lazy…

I know what you meant. My point is that trying to emulate an EA server, bugs and all, sucks, but proper EA servers aren't very reliable either.

You win the internets.

As opposed to rock-solid EA servers.

Lucky I didn't buy it. Thanks for taking a big steamy dump on a franchise I've been in love with since I was a kid, EA. That DRM measure, I'm sorry "cloud gaming", you implemented for this game has been a marvelous success.

That's lovely. Except you have a picture of a 2007 Orion VII bus there.

Does it still have the weird pitching motion and animation bugs from years ago? What about the awful swing follow-throughs of The Show 12? Serious question. The CPU managing of RttS pitchers (sliders seemed irrelevant) made me want to throw my controller many a times.

It's been happening in baseball for quite a while. Miguel Cabrera is a few DUI's from attending AA. MLB just doesn't give a shit.

I like how MLB is moving more of their playoff games to cable TV. Brilliant strategy. Now I can miss all of the playoffs except the World Series. I know lots of people have cable, but lots don't. I'm one of those who isn't getting cable just to watch MLB playoffs and the Yankees' shitty propaganda network. MLB is…

Excellent

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My old shitbox back in the day handled all the insane calculations of SimCity 4 just fine. Also, you're basically suggesting this game does things so complex that EA must have a bunch of goddamn Watson supercomputers crunching the data in their server buildings.

This whole online/need multiplayer mess + no subways in the game* = EA no haz my money.

Their politicians were very eager to get kickbacks and perks in exchange for fucking over their taxpayers. New Yankee Stadium fucked the city of New York out of over a billion dollars in bond payments alone. I'll never forgive this franchise (my favorite team...) for doing that to this city.