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Re:EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban by xtracto on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:29AM (#5343580)
Actually, there are already games similar to Sim-City (we could call them city building simulators) such as http://www2.citiesxl.com/ or http://www.worldoftropico.com/us/index.php

I definitely with the strategy you bring forward. Just let the Sim-City franchise (it is only a name at this point, Will Wright and the majority of original Maxis crew are out), any other studio can get a better game with less stupid DRM.

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Re:EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban by fennecfoxen on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:41AM (#5343647)
Cities XL tried the same thing EA was pulling. Their launch was also a debacle, everyone got mad at them, and they had to shut all their online servers down for lack of money, leaving people with a functional single-player game but a fraction of the functionality they had anticipated (for example: no railroads, subways, or anything like that.)

Which is a bit of a shame, since _City Life_ (the predecessor) was an okay game.

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