I understand someone hacked SimCity and was able to play it offline, something EA said wasn't possible. A video was posted to youtube as proof.

And you thought people hated EA before...

 

What was their reasoning for making it online only?

 

I believe it's DRM-protected online, but I'd bet my Shelby it's so they can get more money out of the people that buy the game.

I mentioned before that I don't play games much anymore, but even if I did I'd never touch anything sold by EA. They have turned gaming into farming people for their money and they don't care if anyone knows about it anymore.

 

Now that makes perfect sense.

EA is at the top for money-grabbing gaming companies. Followed very closely by Capcom

 

It's not a hack, the game just doesn't really need online to function, I think it can go 20-30 mins without being online before it kicks you.

 

Lol.. The government gets hacked all the time.. An they think thier game wont? Bwhahahahhahaha!

 

Which someone will make a patch for it... Lol

 

SimCity never interested me in the least. I've never played any of the titles

 

none of the civilization type games interest me either

 

It's a lot more fun and addicting than you'd think. Roller coaster tycoon, simcity, zoo tycoon. All fun games, but you'll need a pc course you've never played them, console and all....

 

I'm pretty sure roller coaster tycoon was on the PS2 but I am not 100% sure on that.

 

not to mention Sim City was on SNES

 

Those games on console, what a nightmare. Defiantly need a mouse for those.

 

*definitely and I don't know, I was never a huge fan of the tycoon games.

 

Lol **** auto correct

 

rollercoaster tycoon was cool.. until they tried to go all 3d with it... rollercoaster tycoon2 was the last one i bought

 

3 wasn't bad but I agree 2 was awesome.

 

The guy who posted the youtube video was able to play for an unlimited amount of time. He changed quite a bit of code, got it to work just fine and was able to play the game in ways EA said were impossible. I'll see if I can find the site that had it up.

I'm a railroad buff and enjoyed the railroad tycoon series back in the day. However, the game I miss the most, without question, was Jane's Longbow and Longbow II. I think those games are 20 years old by now, but I've never played a more involving or enjoyable game.


EDIT: re: SimCity, here is an article (though a different one) detailing what I was talking about--and the anger being directed toward EA (and rightfully so).

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...emains-silent/

 

not the best but better than normal. great ping and jitter numbers

 

21.18 Mb/s is your normal DL speed? **** that's fast. My cable provider has a 10 Mb/s, a 15 Mb/s, (the one I use) and a 30 Mb/s. With 100 Gig, 150 Gig, and 200 Gig data limits respectively. Upload speed is pretty similar to mine, though. Not that it's that big a deal, I never got buffering on Netflix even when I was getting 1.5 Mb/s on DSL.