{"id":19985,"date":"2013-03-18T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=19985"},"modified":"2013-08-30T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T19:41:42","slug":"electronic-arts-announces-the-game-you-also-got-when-you-got-simcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/03\/18\/electronic-arts-announces-the-game-you-also-got-when-you-got-simcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts announces the game you also got when you got SimCity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"19985\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/RCI_indicator_not_included1.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/RCI_indicator_not_included1.jpg\" alt=\"RCI_indicator_not_included\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19992\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mostly uninterested in the ongoing SimCity furor, partly because I&#8217;ve been playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/03\/11\/simcity-societies-better-living-through-knitting\/\">a really good EA citybuilder instead<\/a>, but also because the furor is focused on the wrong things.  The issue I care about isn&#8217;t the launch problems (those tend to go away) or that EA lied (for politicians and videogame publishers, that&#8217;s called &#8220;talking&#8221;) or the inherent evil of always-on DRM (we&#8217;ve long since lost that battle, because while everyone was beating up on Ubisoft, Diablo III sneaked into our rear) or that the simulation isn&#8217;t simulating an actual city (abstraction isn&#8217;t just for boardgames anymore).  The issue I care about is the one getting the least internet furor mindshare: the fundamental design of tiny interconnected box cities lending each other a hand doesn&#8217;t work as it&#8217;s supposed to work.  And furthermore, assuming it will work in a later update, it&#8217;s not implemented very well.  But because everyone else is gnashing their teeth about one of these ancillary issues &#8212; Server instability!  EA lied!  Down with DRM!  Sims should only sleep in their own houses! &#8212; there&#8217;s little incentive for Electronic Arts, a publicly owned company that changed the ending of Mass Effect 3, to actually make their potentially good game that already sold 1 million copies work the way it was designed.<\/p>\n<p>But the good news is that EA, the publicly owned company that changed the ending of Mass Effect 3, is going to give you another game!  In a press released titled &#8220;SimCity make nice&#8221;, which sounds like poorly translated forced cheer from across the Pacific, Electronic Arts announced that players will soon receive a free game of their choice from the following list:<\/p>\n<p>Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)<br \/>\nBejeweled 3<br \/>\nDead Space 3 (Standard Edition)<br \/>\nMass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)<br \/>\nMedal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition)<br \/>\nNeed For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition)<br \/>\nPlants vs. Zombies<br \/>\nSimCity 4 Deluxe Edition<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s definitely a make nice list, since it has only a single stinker.  Care to guess which one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-19985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-simcity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electronic Arts announces the game you also got when you got SimCity - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/03\/18\/electronic-arts-announces-the-game-you-also-got-when-you-got-simcity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electronic Arts announces the game you also got when you got SimCity - 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