really want the game now!! i always look to play such types of games!! anyone know when this is coming?
so don't buy on launch day dude,*demo*
first, then buy
Yeah.. I ordered this with my another fk id cash on delivery, thinking to cancel it.. 1.5K is too much. And dont think it will cost less than 1.5 after offer. Because the offer will apply on the US game price, that will not be any how less than Flipkart price.
To be simple.. The current price is $60, if they gave even 50% discount(thats not going to happen within some month of game release + its EA), then also the price will be more than 1500.
If the price is 700-1K, then its affordable. 1.5K is too high.
waiting for the ahem version ..
Well, EA is doing pretty well with the Battlefield series.
Well, EA is doing pretty well with the Battlefield series.
), always on DRM. But still the craze and hype for the game gave it the profits
Agree with this. EA's DLCs are mostly old-school expansions, rather than some idiotic stuffs. Here's my take on DLCs: you have a favorite genre or game, you will spend as much as you can. For others, you can just stick with the base game.
I am not a fan of DRM, let alone always online, but there's little we can do.
I have CKII in my Steam library. I can launch the game anytime, even if Steam is not running and even if it is my brother's Steam account is logged in instead of mine. It is DRM Free, once you have installed and updated it
I understand your point about DLCs, but even so, I do not like it one bit. A company like EA certainly can make DLCs cheaper in India via Origin, it just chooses not to. The lower price is the reason why I can buy games, otherwise I would have had to join the 99% of Indian gamers who are too poor/kanjoos to buy games.
EDIT: BTW, Origin's offline mode works fine. In fact, it works better than Steam.
You are comparing CK II to EA games like sim city and BF3 ?!!... the game has some of the shitty graphics and though game play is good its not much different from previous Crusader game. Do you have any idea how much production of a AAA games costs.. even a DLC like end game cost almost a full game produced by paradox.
You have completely missed the essence of CK II. It's not about graphics at all. Also these days almost every games come with lots of bugs, zero day patches have somewhat become the norm. And I just don't want to get started with NFS once again. 
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+1 on the size limit.. its small.. But alternatively.. you can take up and build a city on the rest of the plots on your overall map which is good.
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The only worth buy in the list (ofcourse the game that i dont have) is MOHW for me.Good news for people who bought the game
If u haven't purchased the game, there is still a chance to get a free game, last date is March 25, 2013 at 11:59pm PST.
Games available
Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
Bejeweled 3
Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
MOHW (Standard Edition)
NFS Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
Plants vs. Zombies
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Buy the game its really good.
Purchased the game from Flipkart yesterday. Will get it by tomorrow.
congrats.. that was fast..wow..got the delivary
Ordered it yesterday at 8 PM and got the package today at 3:30 PM. It was shipped from Kolkata to Thane.
which one has online game play ?
Got my copy of free game.
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Selected NFS Most Wanted
and its being downloaded at home as we speak. (facepalm if the power fails at home for over 40 min as my UPS can only sustain 40 min :S)
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I am already downloading my free MOHW at home as we speak. Its available now.
It was stated that they start rolling over from 18th and some countries might recieve it sooner. No idea why did we recieve it soon than what was specified as 22nd for Asia (which you have read it so and I dont even remember reading it anywhere
I read it in the EA FAQ. Not that we are going to complain about recieving the goodies sooner than promised
EDIT: I also added Simcity and the free game NFS Most Wanted to my account. Now let's see if Simcity is good enough or not. This is the first single player game with always online DRM that I am playing, although I have played World of Warcraft and LOTR Online a lot.
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will probably join after april Mid
I created a region for us to play , name : Digitcity
My city name : Diamond city.
My origin id : R30ad3d
arijitsinha i added you.
rakesh_ic wats you origin id?
Please add me so that i send you guys invitation to joint the region i created.
Anyone else wants to join, mention ur origin id, lots of space for all.
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Its the limited edition
anyone know any site selling it? i cant buy from origin because BSNL internet sucks :/
where can i buy this game flipkart and game4u are out of stock
buddy internet speed sucks
it will gonna take forever to download
buddy internet speed sucks
Where are you??
, will change again today. See you around 8 pm. When I was playing yesterday, you were not online and I selected Asia 2 server
Can you send invite when other players are offline?
That happens when you pick and choose aspects of an MMO. I have played WoW a lot, and inviting friends and all that stuff is like a breeze in that game.
@Rakesh - you have built too many parks and high maintenance stuff in your city I think. I strongly suggest that you claim another city in the region and make it your dirty city. Gift it money if need be. In my private region where me and my brother have one city each, we have a 3rd which has coal power plant, big water plant (although it is bugged as only about 1/3 of its water is available to the neighbours) and sewage treatment plant. The other 2 cities buy these services from this city and so save space and have less pollution
I did. You are already in my friendlist i think.
That happens when you pick and choose aspects of an MMO. I have played WoW a lot, and inviting friends and all that stuff is like a breeze in that game.
@Rakesh - you have built too many parks and high maintenance stuff in your city I think. I strongly suggest that you claim another city in the region and make it your dirty city. Gift it money if need be. In my private region where me and my brother have one city each, we have a 3rd which has coal power plant, big water plant (although it is bugged as only about 1/3 of its water is available to the neighbours) and sewage treatment plant. The other 2 cities buy these services from this city and so save space and have less pollution
which allowed me to reduce some taxes which was on the higher side for sometime to cover up my loans.Ok. i shall check that today and add you up.. We shall meet at 8PM today
Ok. i shall check that today and add you up.. We shall meet at 8PM today
I am currently online.. so please ping me on origin for the invites to DigiCity
. Also, when you bulldoze those sewage drain pipes you will see a dark brown land. Which basically means that the ground is highly polluted. Which in turn will increase the germs in your city and lead to hell lot of sick people. So don't forget to build forests on that ground to eventually counter the ground pollution on that part.. Also try to plant trees in empty areas as that may help in germ situation(i am not sure about that). High Wealth people make a big fuss out of sickness. So eventually you will have to counter it. Also, never forget to add more police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, garbage trucks, trade trucks and recycle trucks. When you see crime rising, try to add more police cars rather than building a new whole police station. When it can't be contained even after maxing out the first police station then think about adding another one. Same goes for every other public service and utilities. Keep expanding them till you can and when it reaches its limit and situation still isn't under control then add a new building.
@rakesh reserve a city for me please. I am reaching home late everyday.
oor road management.
. Thats one pain in the a** . If things don't go my way then i may do that myself 
Sorry dude.. u pinged me for an invite.. But i was busy..
I will send you a request today if u can come to asia 2 server.. I have a comparitively smaller region this time with great intercity connectivity..
BTW, I stopped playing my other city in DigiCity region because the game freezes randomly and only a system restart fixes it.. and this has been repeating everytime i have played the city from past few days.. Thanks to EA, I am kinda starting to hate the game
Agree the game is awesome. The concept is good. They f****d up in the execution. When it works, it is fun to play. The problem is it hardly works properly.
I will be going home in an hr..Agree the game is awesome. The concept is good. They f****d up in the execution. When it works, it is fun to play. The problem is it hardly works properly.
I missed out on the free game that they were giving away for the mess that they made. Hoping to get another one caused by another such mess
Anyways will shift my server to Asia 2, awaiting invite
So, in the private region in Asia 2, I encountered what is probably the most gamebreaking bug ever.
The region map showed a city as having 100% oil resources and 0% of everything else. I claimed this city , only to discover that there was 0% oil in it -_-
I have no idea how this bug occurred , but I am effectively screwed with this city of 0% of everything
Ars Technica said:
• New: Added 24 new Hotel models to increase hotel variety.
• Traffic: Updated routing system to improve traffic. Routing system now understands more information about u-turns, required vehicle stops, and vehicle behavior on certain road types. This should make traffic smarter.
• Traffic: Commercial and industrial buildings stagger their work shifts to start throughout commute hours instead of at the top of the hour. This should reduce traffic.
• Traffic: Fixes one issue where a car won't move causing traffic to back up behind it.
• Traffic: Vehicles can now make right turns on Red. This should improve some cases of traffic.
• Traffic: Trading polish that will improve regional traffic when one city has a lot of jobs and its neighboring city has a lot of workers.
• Air Pollution: Fixed more issues where cities that placed air polluting buildings received large amounts of air pollution from unknown sources.
• Service Vehicles: Fix for disappearing service vehicles on cities that whose vehicles had disappeared before update 2.
• School Buses: Fix for issue where school buses were getting stuck at neighbor's city or arcology.
• Audio: Tuned audio on French Police Station.
• Trading: Fixed issue where fire services were not trading consistently between Brakeman's Folly and Twain in Whitewater Valley.
• Trading: Sewage trading: Sewage will now take a more direct route to regional sewage plant instead of throughout the city.
• Trading: Made gifting more reliable.
• Ferry Terminal: Ferry Terminal can now send its sewage to the output pipe and treatment plant.
• RCI Tuning: Fixed issue where sims going to a park via transit would sometimes lose their money or happiness on the way home.
• RCI Tuning: Bulldozing abandoned or rubble buildings will now prevent new developments for 6-12 hours.
• RCI Tuning: Less Happiness is taken from wealth 2 and 3 buildings when rent is due when no money is present.
• RCI Tuning: Fix for issue some users experienced where buildings would stay abandoned because moving trucks would not be able to move in.
• Trees: Trees now last longer, but also do not eliminate as much ground pollution.
• Radiation: Radiation causes less ground pollution than previously.
• Transit: Changed thought bubble suggestion to add more trains to deal with crowded passenger trains to suggest that you add more train stations.
• Transit: Improvements to lights to make rail look better at night.
• Transit: Streetcar stops can now be placed directly on standalone streetcar tracks, and passengers can walk along the tracks to them.
• Transit: Tuned the chance buses or streetcars will go to high-traffic stops first as a minor traffic improvement.
• Roads: University pedestrian paths can now cross streets.
• Manufacturing Trucks: Fixed issue some users experienced where manufacturing trucks left the city and were lost permanently.
• Delivery Trucks: Fixed issue where some users would experience a loss of resources is their delivery trucks returned to garages without proper storage.
• Sports Parks: Tuned the amount of skateboarders and neighborhood athletes at the sports parks.
• Data Layers: Zones are now visible in heavy data layers.
• Edit Mode: Added more valid snap points in edit mode. This improvement is most noticeable on Parks.
• Buildings: Addressed some cases where buildings would stack on one another.Update 4.0 Notes
• [COLOR="#FF0000"][SIZE=3]New: SimCity Launch Park, an exclusive new park just for our dedicated fans who were early adopters. [/SIZE][/COLOR]
• [COLOR="#FF0000"][SIZE=3]New: Region: Edgewater Bay. Seven city sites in one cluster around a beautiful bay with one great work site. [/SIZE][/COLOR]
• New: Your current server will now be shown in the options menu.
• New: More detailed rollover information on buildings telling player’s if their Sims received happiness from a park or from shopping. Previous to this fix, this information was generic.
• Re-Enabled Feature: Global Market prices now dynamically change during gameplay.
• Re-Enabled Feature: Leaderboards will be active on EU West 3, Pacific 1 and Pacific 2 at the release. We will enable them on additional servers throughout the day.
• Re-Enabled Feature: Region filters are now enabled on all SimCity servers. Players will be able to search for open games by Map Name, Sandbox Mode, and Abandoned Cities.
• Rain Clouds: Fixed an issue where some cities would not have rain clouds to replenish their water table. If you had a city with this issue, you will start seeing clouds again within a game day.
• Fire: Improved response time of fire trucks to fires. Improved the time it takes for a fire signal to reach a fire station.
• Mission updates: Tuned Metals HQ and Community College missions. These were appearing too early, making them difficult to complete. They now appear later in a city’s development.
• Solar Farm Great Work: Reduced fire risk at the Solar Farm Great work. Local fire engines were spending too much time at the Solar Farm.
• Messaging: Improved pre-requisite messaging for Trade Port, Casinos, Smelting Factory and Oil Refinery. It should be clearer on how to unlock these buildings.
• Graphics: Fix for flickering low wealth buildings on NVIDIA graphics cards.
• Education: Fix for an issue some cities experienced where commuting students did not return from a neighbor’s city. This was causing a problem where students would disappear from a city in some cases.
• Tuning: Sims will lose a small amount of happiness if they don’t have a place to shop. Cities without places to shop will see complaints and feel the effect of unhappy Sims. This will emphasize the importance of commercial zones.Update 5.0 is focused on improvements to Multiplayer and Multi-city Play
• New: Historic Price charts for Global Market resources are available from the SimCity World button on the main menu.
• New: The Region Wall chat has been completely updated with a new look and new functionality! Chat functions more efficiently and it’s much easier to communicate with other players. Time stamps show on chat messages on rollover. Regional events are easier to read and can be toggled on and off.
• New: Added a filter for friends’ regions in the join region section.
• New: Trading control. Added feature to give players more control over their utilities. Players can now choose whether or not to keep their power, water, or sewage local. This setting can be found on the information panel accessible by clicking on the power plant, water tower, or sewage pipe or plant. Sharing with the region is on by default.
• New: Regional Missions: Added seven new regional missions: Drink It Up!, Plug In, So Stoked, The Wheels on the Bus, Ferry Dust, Station to Station, and Riding Coach.
• New: Regional Achievement: Added a new regional achievement, Field Trip!
• Gifting Improvements: Cash gifts are now delivered electronically, not by truck. This should improve the efficiency of gifting.
• Resource gifts: Resource gifts will happen more reliably. Multiple trucks can make deliveries at once if they are available in the sending city and the truck capacities have been increased.
• Great Works Improvements: Delivery trucks will mark their resources as dropped off as soon as they reach the Great Works, instead of when they arrive back in the city. This will make tracking time more reliable.
• Great Works Improvements: Update to have all resources at Great Works handled at the regional level. This will address players in different cities seeing different resources once the server has processed the region and cities.
• Great Works Improvements: Fixed an issue where an Arcology would maintain power from the region and fixed an issue where shoppers would not increase at the Arcology as it was leveled up. This will update in both existing and new Arcologies.
• Great Works Improvements: Tuned the Solar Farm.
• Regional Unlocks: The advanced coal mine unlocks regionally. Fixed issue where the Trade HQ sometimes did not unlock.
• Fire Advisor Trading clarity: Tuned the Fire advisor so they do not tell you that neighbors are sending fire trucks when your neighbor has no fire stations.
• Trading: School buses that travel from a neighbor’s city will show that city’s avatar.
• Regional Commuting: Fixed an issue where Sims would not be able to take transit out of cities with lots of streetcars or shuttle buses. This could cause some cases where commuting Sims could not return home and their homes would go abandoned.
• Garbage Trucks and Recycling Trucks: Fixed an issue that some cities experienced where garbage and recycling trucks do not leave their buildings or disappeared when trading service with neighbors. Existing cities who have trucks that have disappeared will have to demolish their missing trucks’ garages and plop new garages.
• Text Clarification: The “Out of Money” message now says “Can’t find work” when appropriate in rollover feedback and the approval rating UI. This is to clarify your Sims’ actual need.Hi Mayors -- below you'll find the notes for Update 6:
• New: Granite Lake Region - New 10 city lake region: *www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/building-granite-lake
While creating Granite Lake, we had a few key goals:
- Provide a region with a new visual style that is highlighted by vistas from each city.
- Two clusters of five cities that are connected by boats traveling across the lake.
- Create a scenic central lake around which the city sites will be placed. Includes shipping lanes to keep that gameplay option for cities on the shoreline.
- A region with unique and challenging terrain to provide a different experience than the previously released Edgewater Bay.
• New: RCI Tuning - Tuning to make Industrial needed more. Commercial buildings will now lose profit if they don’t receive enough freight from industry. The demand bars will respond more accurately to which zones are needed. This change will impact existing cities: *www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/making-i...dustry-matter-rci-improvements
• New: RCI height variations for Density 3 Buildings. This will add more variety to the look of your cities: *on.fb.me/14fcVSZ
• New: Borderless windowed mode setting.
• Fixes for some issues of the “out of money” problem or unexplained abandonment that some players have experienced.
• Clarity around unfilled jobs and workers to make sure players are messaged that there may be an issue where workers cannot get to unfilled jobs.
• Residential and Commercial buildings are now more consistently in the same wealth in an area of a particular land value. Improves visual consistency.
• Help Wanted, no Shoppers, and No Jobs alerts have been added to the Zoning info panel as alerts.
• Data Layer: Greater map accuracy on the land value map. Residential and Commercial wealth colors added. Abandoned buildings show up red.
• Data Layer: Land Value map shows when placing parks.
• Fixed issue where RCI sometimes builds on roads.
• Fix performance slowdown in cities with more than one million tourists.
• UI Clarity: Show which city hall modules are already placed in the region on the palette UI.
• Garbage UI: fixed issue where garbage UI sometimes showed bins that had already been picked up.New: Brand new tool to create bridges, overpasses, and tunnels when you draw your roads.
When building your road, pressing the N key or M key will lower or raise the road accordingly creating overpasses, bridges and tunnels.
Note: Existing road layouts cannot be raised or lowered
New: Improvements for Traffic behavior to make it smarter. This should reduce the number of lines formed by all available vehicles converging on a single spot. This affects all vehicles including Police, Fire Trucks, Moving Trucks, Garbage Trucks, Recycling Trucks, Resource Trucks, Buses, Ambulances, and Civilian vehicles going home, to work, or shopping.
New: Tree tools – Place individual trees around your city. These tools are located at the end of the Nature Parks palette.
Terrain: Fixes an issue some player’s see where terrain covers sections of roads while the camera is zoomed out.
Fixed an issue where the fire animation would sometimes continue when fire was extinguished.
Parks: Sports parks are now accepting Sims 24 hours a day.
Airship: The number of Airship passenger trips should now be correct over multiple days.
Vehicles: Vehicles now accelerate and decelerate faster, allowing them to leave buildings and go through intersections more efficiently.
Freight: Freight trucks now only leave factories if they have a valid delivery destination.
Gifting: Money gifting should be more reliable.• New Feature: Tool to create bridges, overpasses, and tunnels when you draw your roads.
- While building your road, pressing the N key or M key will lower or raise the road accordingly creating overpasses, bridges and tunnels. Note: Existing road layouts cannot be raised or lowered
• New: Improvements for traffic behavior to make it smarter. This should reduce the number of lines formed by all available vehicles converging on a single spot. This affects all vehicles including Police, Fire Trucks, Moving Trucks, Garbage Trucks, Recycling Trucks, Resource Trucks, Buses, Ambulances, and Civilian vehicles.
• New: Tree tools – Place individual trees along your city roads. This tool is located at the end of the Nature Parks menu.
• New: Vehicles now accelerate and decelerate faster, allowing them to leave buildings and cross intersections more efficiently.
• Parks: Sports parks are now accepting Sims 24 hours a day.
• Airship: The number of Airship passenger trips should now be correct over multiple days.
• Freight: Freight trucks now only leave factories if they have a valid delivery destination.
• Fix for freight trucks leaving the city instead of going back to the factories in some situations.
• Terrain: Improves some instances where terrain covers sections of roads under certain scenarios while the camera is zoomed out.
IMO Yea i bought it after update 7 and i m Enjoying this game A lot
thanks! i am thinking of buying this game as i have played all its previous versions, including the SNES one
just one more quick query: how much data would it download to update the game to version 7 ?
How Many Still Playing this Game
Thinking abt making a TDF Region
