I very much hope you are being sarcastic.
Preordering and not getting to play the game is anti consumer as fuck. Always on DRM is even more anti consumer.
Preordering EA games should NOT be encouraged, or EA will keep pulling shit like this. The only one who benefit from you preordering is the publisher essentially. Developers only get paid for hitting milestones in their shitty business model. Not just that, dayone DLC is a direct result of this preordering game, time that could be spend bettering the game is spend making insignificant bonuses to preorderes.
Bottom line; no matter how much you want to play the game. DO NOT PREORDER EA GAMES.
They are never going to change their ways unless you hit their pockets.
Honestly preordering any game is a bad idea whether it is from EA or not
To this I agree, which is why I don't always pre-order. I think I pre-ordered one game and that was Borderlands 2. I usually buy my games outright, So I can wait and see what people have to say about it. It's all about personal experience, and opinion really. If you think it's worth it then that's ultimately all that matters. I personally don't care if you pre-order or not. It's when people go around saying your dumb for doing this or "your an idiot, now look your can't play the game." How was ANYONE to know 100% FOR CERTAIN that it would be this way. NO ONE can know 100% not even EA. Maybe EA was right, maybe they really didn't think the game would sell so much that it crashed their servers. Maybe sales where so high that it DID in fact overwhelm them. We don't know that for 100% certainty. We only know what we are told. Now I'm not an EA fanboy. But I'm not really wanting to bitch and whine. After calming down and laying back I realize how much of a pain it can be of what they are trying to fix. (Don't even mention the DRM, no I don't think EA would have had this problem if they had used no DRM or DRM like Sims 3 uses, which is virtually non-existent, but that's not the point. Maybe EA will patch for single players to game, doubt it though.)Anyhow servers, networking, all that can be a pain and when all the sudden the system gets pounded I actually wince. I am a computer geek and build my own computers. (Unless it's a laptop). I may not have the fastest of fastest stuff. Especially for a home server. (Old 1.6GHZ Celeron CPU, 2GB ram anyone?) But I do know what can happen when it gets overwhelmed. It's not pretty. As I've learned. So now I'm just going to sit back and wait. Am I happy, no. But there is nothing I can do about it, so instead of getting mad, I am using this time to do other stuff and attempt to plan my cities in advanced. (Unless I play with a few other people, then I'll see what the established ones have done and change my tactics.
This game isn't just plop power, water roads and zones anymore. You need strategics a little. Some people won't like this. Not saying the old simcity games were dumb or anything. I loved them and still play them and they still require strategy. But I am saying that the region setup now empathizes more strategy. This I like. It means that you can plan different cities and they will affect the WHOLE region.
As a group of us found out, we had a bummer region where one of the cities couldn't keep up with the police force and the criminals went to other's cities. Honestly, my city was going to need a complete revamp and I was readying to do so when we all decided to give that region up and go with a new build region. And that's when the server issues happened. Anyhow, my opinion still stands, it's a good game. Now that i've said that the anticipation of being able to play the game is mounting and I can't wait for the servers to be fully operational again!
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