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CabalPowered

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12. I think the EO author has jumped to conclusions

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 01:05 PM

Dec 2012

The dev says nothing about DRM. It's about regions and econs. This is SimCity 5, in the year 2012.. of course they're going to put most of this in the cloud. What I see is a sort-of meta economy with real-time demand indicators. SimCity 4 was cool becaue it had a built-in meta economy with regions but it was very simplistic in nature. They need to get your session state at the end of the session because you're contributing to a real-time, virtualized economy. I see no more evil here than usual..

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New SimCity to require constant internet connection [View all] ibegurpard Oct 2012 OP

I hate non-MMORPGs that require internet to play. SilveryMoon Oct 2012 #1

Obviously there's a need because you are stealing the game jp11 Oct 2012 #2

that's it exactly ibegurpard Oct 2012 #5

"try to sell you more shit for the product you supposedly 'bought'." Occulus Oct 2012 #6

I post against it on every Sim City facebook post, fuck them, I won't buy it DainBramaged Oct 2012 #3

haha same here ibegurpard Oct 2012 #4

They want to make it the Facebook of online gaming DainBramaged Oct 2012 #7

I am against this horrible trend Occulus Oct 2012 #8

that's just bull mjrr_595 Oct 2012 #9

Agree completely. LeftOfSelf-Centered Oct 2012 #10

More on this from an "ask the devs" forum ibegurpard Dec 2012 #11

I think the EO author has jumped to conclusions CabalPowered Dec 2012 #12

nope ibegurpard Dec 2012 #13

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