Comments on: We Built This City: New CitiesXL Footage

By: Pod

Pod — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:32:04 +0000

Yankee style grid cities = teh bore.

By: Flimgoblin

Flimgoblin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:54:41 +0000

Liked playing the demo, but the whole online thing felt decidedly lacking, especially for the sub fee.

By: basil

basil — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:35:18 +0000

Exactly. In my country we drive on the right, but driving on the left makes more sense.

By: mejobloggs

mejobloggs — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:50:30 +0000

Pretty sure I clicked on ‘Reply’ to the left hand driving discussion

By: mejobloggs

mejobloggs — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:49:29 +0000

NZ too :)

By: innociv

innociv — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:28:37 +0000

$6.50 a month. :/

I MIGHT buy if it came with 3 months of online free and then was $30/year or something.

But $100 a year + $50 for trading an a chat box is pretty much telling you to pirate it.

I’m sure tinypic, imageshack have much beefier servers that cost them more pennies per person than this game does, and they’re free.

All paying $6.50 a month gives you is a chat box(Hi, IRC? IRC is free. Sure, the servers cost thousands a year for large networks that have hundreds of thousands of users, but they’re able to make them free to end users.) and a trade, of which a stock ticker again is going to use more resources.
So where does $100 a year go to? It’s a ripoff for something that should be really cheap or free.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:45:27 +0000

I’m gonna build a city and then flood it with immigrants then hit it with a credit crunch and see what happens.

By: Blurr

Blurr — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:07:11 +0000

Recently I dusted off an old copy of sim city 4 and was frankly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. This looks looks kinda like what i expected the next installment of simcity to look like same thing just bigger and better looking. But if the interface is bad then the game is lost i hope they fix it this looks fun.

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:40:28 +0000

I played the demo of this last month, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I probably won’t be paying the subscription for the MMO section, but the singleplayer looks fantastic.

By: Jayt

Jayt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Australia does to :>

By: Akimbo

Akimbo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:23:21 +0000

I gave the demo a try the other day, and got a “connection lost” message twice, which took me to a screen that says “connecting” and doesn’t really do anything. Both times, it happened In the first tutorial.
Yeah, I’m willing to let this go.

By: lePooch

lePooch — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:09:36 +0000

I would be on this game in a moment but….

Are they still planning to give almost nothing with the base game and then nickel and dime you to death for stuff such as public transport, larger hospitals, police stations and so on? While I can’t find it right now, I recall there being a significant amount of grumbling about this before. Did they change their minds?