I grabbed it on Steam last year after losing my hard copy some years ago. If one waits for a big Steam sale or adds Sim City 4 to their wish list, they get notified when it goes on sale and the typical price is 4.99 with all the addons as well. Lots of community mods out there for the game for anyone interested that fix some bugs like traffic issues.
Yeah I just loaded SimCity 4 onto my wifes Eee PC over the network and it runs fine (not even ridiculously low settings).
SimCity games were always able to hit the casual gamer, you never needed a hardcore gaming PC to play. Why SimCity 5 needs things processed server side is just for the sake of bullshit DRM.
The only way for EA to recover from this will be to release it DRM free (or at most with the serial key DRM of days gone), otherwise SimCity 5 won't even be remembered beyond the news articles of 2013. As an avid SimCity player I can recall every game, I'll never recall SimCity 5 as at this point I'll never get to play it.
> As an avid SimCity player I can recall every game, I'll never recall SimCity 5 as at this point I'll never get to play it.
Likewise :)
Played all the Sim City games all the way back to Sim City Classic (though I played it on SNES). Played the rest on PC and also rebought Sim City 2k on gog.com a while ago for nostalgia. Even my brothers, who I would only consider casual gamers were always able to play them without a problem.
I'll never touch Sim City 5 though unless it comes to Steam and without the always online DRM.
