You're not really refuting my point. The fact remains I bought a game for $60 that I couldn't play because I couldn't get online. We can play "if" this and "if" that all day long - I didn't know my mom's router password, and I shouldn't have had to in order to play a game I purchased and had installed on my laptop…

I agree - most of the reviews, even beyond the server issues, were way, way too kind. It's par for the course for any big new game from a major publisher, but it's particularly egregious with SimCity, which has such a high bar that's already been set. I don't believe a game should be able to get away with being 50%…

Have you placed school bus stops?

Problems of what kind?

I've got a lot of problems with the new SimCity, but I honestly have not been able to get the all-residential thing to work - and I've tried it. People move out if they can't find jobs. You end up with a bunch of abandoned houses.

The multiplayer is responsible for that.

There's no such thing as an "unlicensed" production. Licensed content is stuff that was not originally produced by the channel but licensed from the copyright holder. It's not really that complicated.

Not sure where you work, but I've worked for one of the cable channels you probably watch for the last 9 years (given that they're mentioned here about every other day), and that's the context in which it's used.

It's been working for me without issue except that all the criticism of it definitely *is* true, and even with the servers working, there's no way it deserved the review scores it got. Remove the multiplayer features and it is basically a stripped down, smaller SC4. And the big problem with multiplayer is that it's…

I didn't mean licensed as opposed to unlicensed, I meant licensed as opposed to originally produced.

It's true that a lot of Japanese uniforms aren't anything special and certainly aren't sexy (as I said in one of my other comments in this thread). Some do have the look of a nun's uniform.

Because they're trying to be fashionable. What's hard to understand??

Japanese uniforms are based on UK uniforms.

and fingernails that shine like justice.

That is the theory, and I wouldn't say that it doesn't generally work in Japan. Overall, Japanese schools have higher graduation rates, higher test scores and less violence than American schools, at least. So clearly their educational system is working fairly well.

Having "options" doesn't really equate to the word "uniform" in my view. The word "uniform" means "one form", by definition. And that's why they have uniforms, so everybody's wearing the same thing. It takes the focus off the clothes while you're in school, in contrast to a place where people can wear different…

My wife's schools in Japan have always required ankle-length skirts. I was, needless to say, originally kind of curious to see her pictures in her sailor uniform... but I admit to being a little disappointed when I saw the length of the skirt. This was in the 1980's. And she told me it was for just this reason.

The industry has already stagnated. A lot of people in Japan have been complaining about it for years. There's currently a vicious downward cycle going on, where audiences are dwindling, leaving less money for investing in new titles, meaning corners are cut on those new titles, meaning they appeal to fewer people,…

Most of the changes are just down to different artists and the use of digital tools. The look of anime has changed a lot due to digital drawing tools and CGI. (A lot of anime isn't really drawn at all anymore - keyframes are created and then tweened, like a glorified Flash animation, the end result being that a…

On April 22, G4 will be no more.