Comments on: Cities XL Demo Goes Countries XL

By: chadplusplus

chadplusplus — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:08:05 +0000

Well, I’m stateside and d/led the euro-only demo and had various compatibility/performance issues at first; however, they released a patch last week that apparently fixed all of the issues I was having.

Assumedly, last weekend, I was still playing on the Euro servers and everything ran peachy. It was a fun game, but IMHO, not worth a monthly subscription. Let’s all hope for a mod that allows private server hosting.

By: A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:21:12 +0000

Armless – it’s hardly pandering to the Americans. I’m Canadian and I couldn’t get it to work either. Of course this version may not work either, but I hope it does. Furthermore, being a Canadian, we seem to get screwed whichever way. US release first: great, now English Canadians have to wait while the back of the box is translated into French (or some similar bullshit excuse). Game comes out in Europe first: great, we get screwed again! Not to mention (going slightly off-topic) DiRT2 being seemingly unavailable anywhere in Toronto for PC, but there are oodles of PS3 and XBox360 copies – if I wanted to pay more and have shittier graphics, I’d buy them!

By: jim

jim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:40:08 +0000

This worked for me on Windows 7, right off the bat, no compatability changes at all. It’s Sim City MMO basically. I like it so far.

By: armlesscorps

armlesscorps — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:12:17 +0000

I find this really annoying how theres a post aimed at americans on RPS. Why pandering to the americans all of a sudden? i preferred it like it was a few months ago. I dont want any chaff on the site which Iv no interest in reading, if I wanted that id go on one of the lesser sites.
Dont usually rant about this kind of stuff but this really annoyed me. pls no more!

By: Nallen

Nallen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:04:06 +0000

Very easy, this game. Well it seems to be from the demo.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:28:02 +0000

It’s still giving me a login error, even with the compatibility kludge.

By: dingo

dingo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:26:27 +0000

European only? Do whut? I’m a USian and I downloaded the demo linked from your previous story; played for me just fine.

Seems you live in the part of the US that we already quitely invaded…

By: badoli

badoli — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:34:05 +0000

Spitfire, i gladly second that.

By: Blast Hardcheese

Blast Hardcheese — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:18:47 +0000

Maybe Valve can give all the confiscated hats to hobos?

By: Mister Adequate

Mister Adequate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:28:14 +0000

It’s playing Cities XL makes me want to hurt hobos. America was spared, briefly!

By: Wisq

Wisq — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:35:38 +0000

@Jason Leftkowitz: Uh oh, you broke the anti-Rest-Of-The-World embargo. Now the gaming police are going to come over and lock you up for good.

The good news is, you’ll at least have lots of hats. Valve ran out of space at their HQ and is using the gaming prison to store all the ones they confiscated.

By: Jason Lefkowitz

Jason Lefkowitz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:14:01 +0000

European only? Do whut? I'm a USian and I downloaded the demo linked from your previous story; played for me just fine. Which isn't to say it was a very good demo (it wasn't), but my problems were with the poor game design, not with being locked out of it or finding it laggy...