But one thing I remember hearing around the time that people were complaining about this was that it's just not possible for Sim City to have an offline mode. Apparently the game was SO advanced and there was so much shit going on in the game that it absolutely had to be online. I think anyone with half a working brain knew that was a load of crap but that was their story and they stuck to it.
UNTIL TODAY!
On March 18th 2014, Maxis released a patch for SimCity that allowed the game to be played offline and it stores all your shit locally so you don't have to worry about server wipes of whatever crap was going on around release time.
People are understandably happy about this development, people love the Sim City games and rightly so, they are really good. But just forget that you get to play your latest instalment of the series offline for a second, why are people not more angry about being lied to? Why is this an acceptable practice for publishers and developers to just flat out lie to their consumers to get their money!? Why aren't people marching into EA to punch whoever runs that absolutely shit stain of a video game company in the face?!!
Now I'm picking on SimCity because it's the most recent example I can find but it's not the only one doing it. Remember how awesome those Dark Souls 2 gameplay videos looked?
Not that this reflects on the quality of the game itself, and I'm still hoping that the PC version will look as good as those preview videos, but it's a little bit annoying to be told it's going to look good and then it comes out and it looks no better than anything else.
Like I said about SimCity, I'm only using these examples because they are fairly recent but this trend of just lying to people has been going on for a long LOOONG time and it's really sad and needs to stop. How about instead of lying to consumers to get their money, how about you just make a quality product that people will want to pay for?! Fucking idiots.
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