Worse yet, the minority of existing Sims aren’t the dynamic individuals we were promised, but a shambling horde of mindless, indistinguishable zombies entirely incapable of any situational decision making.

Instead we get a population counter that shamelessly inflates the modeled population by up to a factor of ten. We were told this revolutionary SimCity would at last achieve the coveted dream of simulating an entire city of individuals, and that from these individuals the social dynamics of modern life would fantastically emerge before our eyes. Perhaps some may have found it in themselves to forgive the onerous DRM policies and unreliable server issues, but the final nail in the coffin is the stream of blatant lies which were marketed.

And so your city will crumble as uncontrolled inferno erupts in factories while 16 fire trucks dutifully douse a smoking kitchen on the other side of town. Finally, even the game’s cities themselves cannot function with these sewage-brained Sims and they inevitably collapse in a sea of asinine gridlock as the entire police force prioritizes individual criminals in sequence, as do the firefighters with fires and the workers with jobs. They are all as mindless and generic as the water, electricity and sewage that all travel the same streets.

Not a thing about them resembles a real life. There are only generic nomad agents which assume the first job they stumble into that day, and sleep in the closest available house that night. There are no doctors, no engineers or scientists no teachers or real police or firemen. Quite literally, the sewage agents are no different in their one-track behaviors than the Sims themselves. Cities that reach populations of hundreds of thousands of individual Sims – revealed to be another lie – the supposed hundreds of thousands of Sims being nothing but a number displayed on the screen desperately hoping you won’t notice your actual population is but a tenth of what it displays. A supposedly required set of server-side calculations to allow for a simulation engine so complex and powerful that your puny computer alone wouldn’t be able to handle it – revealed to be a hollow lie concocted to justify not allowing any offline play. Little did most suspect that these issues would only be the tip of the iceberg. You thought you purchased this game and own it, but soon realize you’ve only been granted tentative permission to borrow it, and only when it’s convenient. You must play under the strict EA terms and only when they allow you. Horrendously unreliable servers wholly incapable of supporting the number of players. Draconian DRM which monitors you at all times, requiring you to be online to report in at regular intervals. The list of offenses is egregious and growing: So as the week has passed, it’s become more and more evident something – no many things – are horribly wrong.

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