Growing up, one of my heroes was Mayor McCheese because I was really inspired that a man could govern an entire land despite having a giant and delicious cheeseburger for a head. So when the new Simcity launched I was eager to try my own hand at becoming Mayor, inspiring my own community through excellent service provision and thoughtful city planning. But then, of course, disaster struck. Amid overwhelming criticism for its always-online DRM and scaled back city size, the Simcity launch was an large-scale catastrophe. As the beleaguered servers promptly shat themselves many players were unable to play for over a week!
That’s where my story should have ended, but I oddly began to discover that disaster bred desire. It was kind of fun to read about the Simcity fallout, and every major game site that realised this fact seemed to be cranking out as many articles about EA's very public failure as possible. Before long I was watching people complaining about it on youtube, and this led to me watching videos of people - believe it or not - actually playing the game! And the more I watched, the more I wanted to play it. So now, two weeks post release, I took the plunge. It may have been bad publicity, but it worked. As a Wilde man once said, it’s better to be talked about than not to be talked about at all.
Find out what I thought about Simcity... after the jump!
