News - SimCity to go offline tonight for “first significant update”

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The time chosen is 9pm in the UK, servers will be down for “a few hours”.

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So does that mean it will be in Beta after the update? lawl..

Anyway I wouldn't buy this game until it's maybe £5, Simcity 4 still seems a better game and you don't have to be online constantly. And I've heard the game is kinda lame anyways, you can't build and plan cities like you could before, it's more like managing them. Sounded fail the first time I read about it and I was looking forward to it. Lame rant over :P

Perhaps this is where they introduce larger cities.

...For just £10.

Who doesn't love DLC ;)

I was so looking forward to this game, and it still captures my interest a tad, but i'm not buying a game from a company that rush out an incomplete product.

And the whole 'always online' i might be able to tolerate if the system actually worked but it still doesn't always work properly, and it's a huge negative factor for me if it did.

I'm sticking with simcity 4 for satisfying my city-building cravings, at least it does what i want with no strings attached

I won't be wasting my money on this game, will purchase Civitas instead. I had backed the Kickstarter campaign but it seems they got offered funding from a different source. As long as they release the game with the proposed features and without unnecessary DRM then it will get my money.

I'm definitely not buying this game until DRM is taken away. Also, the price has been static since the game came out, still too high for my liking.