Pants on fire, emergency teams unable to get to the location:
Yes, I know, it's the same site I decided would be regarded as suspicious because they ran a headline about life MOST CERTAINLY coming from asteroids. But I've read this on other sites to which I dasn't link. Too much cursing. Gleeful cursing, though. People want to see EA burn for this. Burn!
It's not just the DRM issue - someone posted a video to YouTube showing how you can play off-line, and connect highways outside of your city zone which also appear to be saved between plays, and -
Hold on! Come back! Please! This matters, in an insignificant way that affects a lot of people doing something you don't care about. Unless the video is faked, then it seems as if certain features are built into the program, and will be unlocked in the future.
As in "IKEA furniture Expansion Pack for Sims 3." Everyone expects EA will sell us the features the game should have, but doesn't. Larger maps. Subways. Different buildings. That will keep the game fresh for a few years and ensure an income stream. A business decision that looked great on paper. Worked with the Sims, after all.
But the reviews hae a common theme, aside from the DRM issue: it's a sixty-buck program with lackluster game play. Let's return to the Amazon reviews, which have grown to 2,000+ furious screeds.
I'm hearing that last one a lot. Cars never take the sensible route, they take the shortest route - even if it's backed up for blocks. Fire trucks just drive around aimlessly instead of going to the fire. You'd think this would be something they noted in beta testing.
"Say, I've noticed that the police never respond to 911 calls by going to the house; they drive across town then go around a traffic circle for 30 minutes. Should we fix that before release?"
