Soooo, carrying the pi, we see that EA is already out 5,000 more sales than if they had just created a normal, single player offline capable game with multiplayer components. We’ll say half those people listen to me and haven’t bought the game already. I just told those 50,000 people NOT to buy SimCity because EA cannot handle its s***, and the game is unplayable. I have 160,000 Twitter followers, of whom around 50,000 follow me for gaming. We’ll assume that for an amazingly successful game like SimCity, about 20,000 people will end up pirating it (those who have the technical knowhow and Internet savvy to find a working crack). Sadly, EA seems to have failed to do some very simple math. Streaming the other night, the only times I DIDN’T have latency was when I was disconnected from their servers and my computer had to run all the game operations), but in reality it’s to try to combat piracy. The fact that EA requires an “always on” connection is ostensibly because so many operations are taking place server side that your computer won’t be able to handle it (which is a blatant falsehood, since when I was
Having access to other players’ cities is cool, but I want to build MY city, and I don’t want some, totally unnecessary “always on” DRM to keep me from playing the game (full disclosure: PC Gamer was kind enough to provide me with a download code for the game, so you can only imagine my rage levels if I had actually put money into EA’s pockets for this “experience”). SimCity is, at its heart, a single player game. EA’s servers are, to put it bluntly, utterly bug, and there’s no option to play the game offline. Of those ten, four consisted of massive latency issues and corrupted games, so (quick calculation here), I’ve had access to the actual game for maybe 10 percent of the time I’ve had it. Of those 62 hours, I’ve been able to log in for around ten. And oh boy, does it hate working.Īt the time of writing this piece, SimCity 5 has been active for almost 62 hours. Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.Unfortunately, the reality did not quite live up to expectations.ĭon’t get me wrong, the game itself is great.ALL DOWNLOAD FILES ON THIS SITE ARE 100% CLEAN, REGARDLESS OF WHAT NORTON, AVG, MCAFEE, ETC… PICKS UP System Requirements NOTICE: MAKE SURE TO HAVE YOUR ANTIVIRUS DISABLED, NOT DOING SO RESULTS INTO THE GAME YOU ARE INSTALLING TO CRASH AND NOT OPEN. YOU MUST HAVE DIRECTX INSTALLED TO AVOID DLL ERRORS. Don’t forget to run the game as administrator. SimCity 2013 Torrent DownloadĬlick the download torrent button below to start your SimCity 2013 Free Download. Make sure anti virus is disabled before installing and running the game.
Note: When you start the game, it’ll ask you to update the game.
If you encounter any problems, run the game as administrator and be sure to update your video drivers and have DirectX installed which you can get here.