SimCity V (2013) - screens/artwork and information

PaulC2K said:
If it wasnt Origin, but Steam, you wouldnt hear a peep from anyone about the price. God only knows why, apparently everything is acceptable when Steam do it, and digital distribution + steam is an absolute must.
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Garbage. It's EA who have set the price here. Whether it was on steam or not, it's a bloody ridiculous price.
 
Deific said:
Garbage. It's EA who have set the price here. Whether it was on steam or not, it's a bloody ridiculous price.
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So from everything which i said, you've chose to quote only the bit which point out if it was steam nobody would bat an eyelid, you've ignored the bit where i call Origins pricing scandalous... we're just focusing on the first sentence being 'Garbage'? :rolleyes:
Instead of being so defensive of poor innocent full RRP charging Steam, you'd make the effort to read whats someones wrote, rather than skimming the first paragraph and posting something stupid.


Just how often do you pay full RRP for a game?? You're honestly telling me that because the RRP is £45 that means you've no other option, the fact that countless places are selling it for £35 isnt an option for every single person in this country??
There are countless games which are £45 or more, and lets not forget console games. But who actually pays RRP? Nobody who doesnt have more money than sense.
I'll also bet the last time you and most people paid full RRP on a retail game was done on Steam, because theres hardly a retailer out there who charges full RRP, its an irrelevant guide price. Yes its a stupid one, WHICH I POINTED OUT, but then you've probably stopped reading by the first paragraph anyway.
The difference is, when steam do it (and they dont set their prices, they're forced to sell launch titles at RRP - brief 10% preorder sales asside, still pricing them higher than other retailers) all its accepted and people find a way to justify it because its Steam, and steam can do no wrong to so many gamers. But Origin, people get their knickers in a right twist over it. If their price is so high, then dont buy it from Origin, how complicated do people think it is to be able to understand that?

PaulC2K said:
If it wasnt Origin, but Steam, you wouldnt hear a peep from anyone about the price. God only knows why, apparently everything is acceptable when Steam do it, and digital distribution + steam is an absolute must.

I guess theres still a few more of us out there who dont give a damn what steam have, if its cheaper elsewhere then it gets bought elsewhere, but places like this it seems to be akin to urinating into the wind. Use the O word and it makes peoples blood boil. :rolleyes:

Anyone who buys from Origin at full RRP is a fool, and clearly money isnt something they need to worry about, lucky for them, but as with the majority of things as long as you buy a retail copy of the game it'll be unlocked through the digital distribution platform and you'll have the exact same product (possible exclusive DLC deals asside) and 99% of the time at a fair old saving too.

Platforms like Steam & Origin have to charge full RRP really, shops dont, if they charged only what it cost to take the same profit the likes that OCUK or any other online or physical outlet would charge, to make say £5 on the sale of each copy, they'd massively undercut the retailers and who'd stock something they cant price competitively with the official route.
However that doesnt excuse the fact that they're claiming a ludicrous RRP price, i mean £45 is a joke, but £65 for the game and the 3 country theme buildings is simply scandalous. I think most are looking at a £35 price for launch, most likely boosted by the fact that they see this as building on the foundations that The Sims has built, and £35 is an easy sell, plus a ton of DLC for junk bits n bobs because theres a gullible audience for that stuff. So the RRP needs to be £40+ and EA being EA figured lets push it to £45/65 and go fishing for fools who arent put off by that price.

Im lucky i was able to get in when EA India were doing their unjustifiable prices of £11/17 for the 2 copies, and for £17 figured what the heck, but theres not a chance i'd have paid more than £25 under any circumstances. It would have been 'acquired' and then bought when there was a sale on. :o
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£65 DD version on Origin, wow.

For a Sim city game which doesnt look that impressive, thats.....almost £70 for a non physical product :eek:

Ive seen amazing collectors editons for that kinda money!
 
Looks like a pale husk compared to the original SimCity greats. SimCity was supposed to be about building a giant sprawling city, not some compartmentalised mini-cities that this looks to offer.

Like BF3, EA have just missed the structural foundation that was needed to make this a great game, but I can't really say I am surprised.
 
Steam got me away from pirating games - all games eventually go in the sales or on a weekend deal - RRP never an issue because of that.

EA seem intent on pushing me back.

£65 or free? Cheers EA :D
 
Hellsmk2 said:
Steam got me away from pirating games - all games eventually go in the sales or on a weekend deal - RRP never an issue because of that.

EA seem intent on pushing me back.

£65 or free? Cheers EA :D
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So true, but probably not worth pirating for the 4 minutes of play it would get before deletion. One would have to assume EA destroys franchises deliberately, because it seems genuinely inconceivable that they could make things so bad whilst actually trying to make them well. Meh.
 
They actually have some great ideas. Such as expanding individual buildings and upgrading them. However everything else I love about SimCity is just gone. No purchase for me unless they radically change somethings.
 
Looking at the comments on their youtube page it's quite clear that EA are on to a winner here. Lots and lots of positive comments and a healthy looking like bar on every video means this will probably sell well, it shouldn't, but it will.

A city with a population of 1090 lolwut? :(
 
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