SimCity (2013)

[Garrett67]

JMS, I'm on my 4th city. This is the first one where it feels like I'm actually being productive and things are flowing well.

I actually just made this city last night and now I'm running out of room, but I believe that is where the density comes into play. As things expand, the high rises start showing up and such

. I do hope they expand the cities soon and allow the expansion to be on current cities.

[jms493]

I figured out my mistake. No need to build so much education when ur whole economy is based on mining. I am going to wait a while and then probably destroy all the mining stuff and focus on tourism and high wealth industry. Then export chips and such while running a tourist community.

[Chrispy]

Our SimCity Mayors are incredibly important to the team at Maxis. We know we messed up and want to sincerely thank you for staying with us. The good news is we have solved most of the major issues and players are really enjoying the game. We're getting great feedback from our fans and know that many of you are having fun and are exploring this whole new expression of SimCity. As a small token of our appreciation, we are offering you a free EA PC game download on Origin*. Mayors who have authenticated their copy of SimCity on Origin by March 25 can select a free game through a redemption portal inside the Origin desktop client later this week. We'll be opening up the redemption portal country-by-country so some of you may see it a little sooner than others. The portal will be live worldwide for everyone to select their game by March 22. We don't want any of you to miss out your free game, so please note that you must register your copy of SimCity before March 25, 2013 at 11:59 PM PST and you must claim your free game by March 30, 2013 at 11:59PM PST. For more information, including instructions on how to get your free game and a list of eligible games, please read our FAQ. We've included some of the hottest games in the EA portfolio, so pick one and add it to your Origin library on us!

Sincerely, Maxis

From email from them

[jms493]

There are some great pictures on their facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/SimCity?fref=ts

[jms493]

From email from them

Free Games from EA if you bought Sim City

1. Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
2. Bejeweled 3
3. Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
4. Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
5. Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition)
6. Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
7. Plants vs. Zombies
8. SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

I am thinking Bejeweled 3.

[Primetime]

Which games are available?

Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
Bejeweled 3
Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
MOHW (Standard Edition)
NFS Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
Plants vs. Zombies
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

[Primetime]

I think we should all get NFS Most Wanted and have racing nights.

[Garrett67]

I think we should all get NFS Most Wanted and have racing nights.

Most of us have it on PS3 already.


I was going to buy Sim City 4 Deluxe, maybe I will get that.

[jms493]

Most of us have it on PS3 already.


I was going to buy Sim City 4 Deluxe, maybe I will get that.

that game is much harder than this version. Also running pipe and power lines....ugh.

[Garrett67]

that game is much harder than this version. Also running pipe and power lines....ugh.

Yeah, I know , I used to have it but I don't want those other games.

[jms493]

I am slowly making to movement from mining to tourism. I built a computer chip plant and I am importing plastics and making alloy. I am thinking I will start importing alloy and shut down my plants. I am making good money running Shows and Monster Truck Rallies. I shut it down last nite after scheduling a 300K rock concert. Right now My city has some tourism, education and industry.

[Garrett67]

I am slowly making to movement from mining to tourism. I built a computer chip plant and I am importing plastics and making alloy. I am thinking I will start importing alloy and shut down my plants. I am making good money running Shows and Monster Truck Rallies. I shut it down last nite after scheduling a 300K rock concert. Right now My city has some tourism, education and industry.

This sounds familiar :p

[BigBucs]

EA Disabling User Accounts Because It Thinks Any Contact With Amazon Must Be A Refund Request

UPDATE: Electronic Arts has announced that CEO John Riccitiello is stepping down. His last day on the job will be March 30. Interesting timing, eh?
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It’s now been almost two weeks since Electronic Arts launched its newest, always-online SimCity game. Since that debut, EA has apologized for slow servers and said an offline mode wasn’t part of its vision, further inflaming customer ire. And now it’s time for another chapter in this unending saga of fails: We’re hearing from readers as well as reports online that any users who’ve contacted Amazon for any reason regarding SimCity are getting kicked out of the game.

This phenomenon has been chronicled on Reddit as well as in gaming forums, and each story sounds a lot like what happened to Consumerist reader Jeff. He writes in that he had ordered the digital version of the game from Amazon, and decided to play it recently.

But when he tried to play, he was told that he had an invalid key and that the game code had already been used. He figured maybe it was a glitch as he’d had to update the game, and went to sleep thinking such. The next morning it was the same story — SimCity wasn’t going to work for him. So he went to Amazon first, where he had purchased the game.
Amazon was more than happy to provide me with a new product key. I put the key in, SimCity re-appeared in my Origin game library. All is good, right?
Wrong.

After yet another forced update, the game once again told me that the key is no good, that it had already been used. At this point, Amazon offered to refund me, which I declined because I want the game, I enjoy playing it, and I was one of the few that was patient enough to sit through the server issues, AND I’m one of the few that realize life is too short to worry about the always-on feature (although, I could totally live without it, but that’s an argument for another day).

So now, I contacted EA Origin through chat, and they said I need to call them. The problem is – I’m deaf, and a phone call is the only way to do this. EA Origin chat guy suggested I find someone to call on my behalf. What a jerk.

I used the relay (a service for the deaf where the middle-man relays the message in typed format). After an hour on hold, I was hung up on before I could answer. So here I am, sitting, waiting for someone to respond while being on hold for a second time. I realize that EA is backed up in the CR department due to the various gaming issues people might have. But this is ridiculous.

So I looked into the issue, and guess what? It’s happening across the board. Anyone who even remotely contacted Amazon about the game got their accounts cancelled – by EA. EA blames Amazon. EA claims that I (along with possibly thousands other users according to a thread) have been issued a chargeback. Except the thing is – I never asked for a refund, nor was I given one either. I had this confirmed by Amazon, which is why they were more than happy to provide me a new product key.

Jeff says he was finally able to use the relay to talk to EA, and found out that indeed, he’d been banned from the game because Amazon had instituted a chargeback. Except, it didn’t, because he never asked for a refund or chargeback of any kind. He adds that Amazon was nice enough to give him a $40 credit for the problems it hadn’t caused, while EA simply gave him a 15% discount off his next Origin purchase and blamed Amazon for his troubles.

According to the post on Reddit, an Amazon CSR said EA is “aware of the issue” and will be busy re-enabling user accounts.
Further proof that the word refund is a dirty word to EA these days? If you needed evidence, that is: EA is reportedly replacing its own support number with asterisks in the SimCity forum, just because players don’t already have enough hoops to jump through and hey, why not make it even more difficult to log complaints?

Now’s a great time to remind y’all that EA, winner of the Worst Company In America 2012, is up for a repeat on that title very soon. Something to think about.

http://consumerist.com/2013/03/18/ea-disabling-user-accounts-because-it-thinks-any-contact-with-amazon-must-be-a-refund-request/

[jms493]

So WTH? My city is going broke because my trade centers wont deliver alloy to the processor plant. I import plastic and it is delivered no problem but alloy comes in and goes somewhere else. WTH???

Also what do you guise do with your garbage?

I picked up NFS on the PC.

[TeflonDonny]

So WTH? My city is going broke because my trade centers wont deliver alloy to the processor plant. I import plastic and it is delivered no problem but alloy comes in and goes somewhere else. WTH???

Also what do you guise do with your garbage?

I picked up NFS on the PC.

Do you have a great work in progress? if you want to know where your alloy goes turn on the trade map and watch the trucks when they leave your depot.


Burn the garbage. It will potentially trigger a godzilla attack but if your dump is far enough from anything important you will have minimal damage.