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I posted this over at simtropolis.com in the forums but wanted to add it here as well.

http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=367&threadid=90207&enterthread=y 

Basically my point is that Simcity Societies is not Simcity, that much is obvious. So lets stop comparing it to Simcity and look at it as just another game. Like City Life. For me games like this are no fun. Simcity is it or nothing at all. I’m sure I’ll take a peak at the SCS demo when it arrives, but aside from that I could care less. It looks like a boring silly game. I did hop on the band wagon when I first read about and wrote a nasty blog to coincide with my view. But in hind site that was silly. This is just another game not even being developed by Maxis. So I am going to consider it as just another game with Simcity in the title only. It is Simcity in name only.

Below is my original forum post: 

SCS looks like a horrible game imo. But I don’t view it as a replacement to Simcity seeing as it’s so radically different. In fact I don’t understand why Simcity is in the name, you’re not simulating a city, you’re simulating sims on a broader scale. If they have a demo I’ll give it a shot, but it’s not like I am going to uninstall SC4 and replace it with SCS.

Yes I am sad like the rest of you that there is no SC5. But there still is Spore which looks like an awesome game that I can’t wait for. And I’ll always enjoy hours of detailed city building and scrolling through the Stex looking for new buildings and mods. As long as there is new content for SC4 I will be thrilled.

The grahics don’t bother me at all and I don’t base a game off the way it looks alone. I still enjoy playing tetris on my game boy. even the original Simcity is fun from time to time. I don’t think any of us on this forum are focused on the look though. I’m sure everyone who comes to these forums is interested in game play and taking full advantage of SC4.

But what about what we’re missing that we we’re looking forward to in SC5? We already have fixes to the transportation system through NAM. You can get civic buildings which cover broader areas for more realism. You can download larger regions for massive cities. We even have rural highways. And this isn’t the end.

So what exactly would an SC5 offer that we don’t already have aside from better graphics? I know there’s something I’m missing, but maybe if we start putting down ideas one of the great mod/batrs out there will take a peak and think, that is a nice idea, I’m going to make it

As for SCS, who cares? It’s Simcity in name only. Lets focus on other things like the Simtrpolis 1000 project or adding even more custom features and perfecting mods for the current game.

ps: I just noticed this post as well