Return to Oz.

But, in fairness that had to happen. After all, this is a prequel to the Wizard of Oz. What point would there be in Glinda becoming the ruler? It wouldn't have made any sense...

I was actually going to say the same thing. Especially having lived in New Jersey.

I think losing the subways, having the city sizes nerfed at around 200k max population, dumbing down the utilities, no local saves and a few other things are pretty horrible to be honest. The online problems just keep heaping on issue after issue.

Then you probably won't be buying another EA game for a long time. They've pretty much flat out stated that every game they're making in the future was going to be "live 24/7/365" with some form of always on.

Not a science? Don't tell that to any archeologist out there, you'll likely get a trowel stuck in your eye. Sure it's kind of a "social science" as far as the figuring out of what people did with things...but the actual unearthing and discovering said artifacts is extremely scientific.

Um, actually it uses the servers for algorithmic stuff that plays into how the simulation of the game runs. So yeah, there's that.

It won't happen. Consumers don't get the full game, a lot of things are 100% dependent on EA servers. Good luck with someone getting all that code...and good luck for your machine running all of it at once..

Aliens: Colonial Marines

It would be nice if some other studios actually picked up the IP's....I think that may actually be the best situation. Hopefully the developers could remain intact after the dismantling...

Plenty know of Whiplash. Iron Monger was definitely out there in the first movie though, but the Obediah back stab had to happen at some point...

The WiiU is the 2nd best console launch, behind only the Wii in the first couple of months. (3.2mil Wii, 3mil Wii U).

I'm with you there. I can't believe that they're taking the company in this direction at all. It's like they don't even care.

The thing is, this time they have support from Sony. The PS4 has all this wrapped up in there for them. Probably why Nintendo wouldn't play ball with them. They didn't want all this in there.

I was a bigger fan of Sega Marine Fishing...that was even more batshit crazy fun...

Yep, they've come out saying it in a few places. First article I could find about the matter:

This is the future of EA right here....considering they came out and said every game was going to require this kinda crap from here on out...

The game is useless. Unless Maxis ends up delivering a massive patch to the game that allows for you local machine to do the calculations currently being done in the cloud.

This whole new site hit a new low a while ago...it's so haphazard that I can't tell the difference between official posts and fan posts. Actually, some of the fan posts are better...at least they have more than the headline...