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RIP Simcity

Well, EA ruined Simcity for me.

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3160151

http://simcity.ea.com/

Thanks EA. I'm fine with waiting on Maxis to finish Spore. I can play that while they hack out the next Simcity.

Simcity is obviously a game of micromanagement. Wright is correct, the game is difficult. But that's what makes it fun, the challenge of building a major city, even re-creating real life cities on your computer. Dealing with traffic congestion, fighting rising crime rates, trying to budget. Even laying power lines and water pipes is fun. But what I really don't understand is that Wright is making a game like Spore, where you control the evolutionary path of an alien being up to the rise of it's civilization and then conquer other planets, and he says Simcity is hard? Why not just make a simple mode for Simcity 5?