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It looks really nice. I played for about an hour but it started crashing so I'll have to wait for them to patch it before I can really dive in. They've done a

It looks really nice. I played for about an hour but it started crashing so I'll have to wait for them to patch it before I can really dive in. They've done a great job improving a lot of the UI issues of earlier games. In fact, the entire UI is really nice. I'm not too bothered by the small city size. It seems like by the time I'm done filling up an entire city's land area, I'll have pretty much dealt with whatever growth issues there are and any further increases will simply be more of the same. I don't really care about the DRM because, for all intents and purposes, I am always online. I'm curious about the ongoing plans for the game, though. I have to admit I'd be surprised if they don't eventually increase the limits on city size.

TillE 14y ago
> I don't really care about the DRM because, for all intents and purposes, I am always online. Sure, but what do you do when you want to play the game again in 10 years? 20 years? The servers will be long gone. DRM is going to steal away vast swathes of videogame history, which is a bit tragic. It's teaching us all to treat videogames as a disposable commodity rather than something to be treasured. How much poorer would pop culture be if The Godfather or Lord of the Rings disappeared shortly after their creation, never to be seen again? SimCity 2000 is nearly twenty years old, and it's still a great game. It's still important and worth remembering for all its innovations.
- jamesaguilar 14y ago
  I don't have enough time to play all the good games that come out. I don't think I'll be broken-hearted. But I admit you have a point that it would be better if it was DRM free. It is still not a super big problem to me.
  - tl 14y ago
    If you view DRM as a negative and you believe that there are more good games than you can play, you can subtract every game with DRM from your list, and still have enough good games!
    - jamesaguilar 14y ago
      It certainly doesn't annoy me enough to skip a game that would otherwise be at the top of my list.
rbrcurtis 14y ago
My guess is that the city size has a lot to do with the CPU cost of running an AI for so many agents so until hardware improves or their algorithms improve they won't allow larger sized cities.

TillE 14y ago

> I don't really care about the DRM because, for all intents and purposes, I am always online. Sure, but what do you do when you want to play the game again in 10 years? 20 years? The servers will be long gone. DRM is going to steal away vast swathes of videogame history, which is a bit tragic. It's teaching us all to treat videogames as a disposable commodity rather than something to be treasured. How much poorer would pop culture be if The Godfather or Lord of the Rings disappeared shortly after their creation, never to be seen again? SimCity 2000 is nearly twenty years old, and it's still a great game. It's still important and worth remembering for all its innovations.

jamesaguilar 14y ago
I don't have enough time to play all the good games that come out. I don't think I'll be broken-hearted. But I admit you have a point that it would be better if it was DRM free. It is still not a super big problem to me.
- tl 14y ago
  If you view DRM as a negative and you believe that there are more good games than you can play, you can subtract every game with DRM from your list, and still have enough good games!
  - jamesaguilar 14y ago
    It certainly doesn't annoy me enough to skip a game that would otherwise be at the top of my list.

rbrcurtis 14y ago

My guess is that the city size has a lot to do with the CPU cost of running an AI for so many agents so until hardware improves or their algorithms improve they won't allow larger sized cities.