Poll: Worse launch? SimCity or Diablo 3
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SimCity, although by all accounts I got lucky with Diablo 3.
More persistent server issues, worse communication, more in-game technical issues if you can get connected, and less justification for the online only model to begin with.
More persistent server issues, worse communication, more in-game technical issues if you can get connected, and less justification for the online only model to begin with.
You could play Diablo III by now. This is worse. The 3 hours I got to play of Simcity in the last 3 days were great.
I'm honestly on the fence on this one. I was having a long chat online with some people, including a few who were at Blizzard for the D3 launch. It's definitely in agreement both are in the same boat, and D3 was the worst we had experience by far leading up until then, but as it stands now the jury is still out as to which I think was worse. Ask me again once a full week has passed from launch, and I can compare the first 5 to 7 days of both games and then maybe I'll cast my vote.
Sim City has had a slightly worse launch so far. While at this point in time they were both equally as bad blizzard actually told everybody before the launch this was going to happen.
I would only say D3 because I feel, perhaps wrongly, that Blizzard SHOULD have been better prepared. You could make a case that D3 has a larger audience at the gates, and they should have predicted the impact to their servers just based off the pre-order sales alone. If WoW has taught them anything, take pre-order sales, double that for first day launch sales. Just my 2 cents.
The queues are only one of the problems with SimCity. EA have had to turn off several features, including achievements, and even disable the fastest game speed in order to try to make the thing stable. Plus cites are being randomly corruopted and rolled back by several hours for many people.Fluffythepoo said:
On day 1 of Diablo III's launch, which was world wide, not stagged by several days across the world, I did have severe problems logging in, but once in, the game was stable, and pretty much lag free. At no point were any of my character rolled back or lost, and the D3 servers didn't go down repeatedly for maintenance during the first week.
And just today Sim City's problems are so bad that Amazon US have pulled it from sale.
There's really no contest, Sim City is having it much worse.
Simcity already surpassed Diablo 3 as it seems to be affecting a larger percentage of the user base. What's more there is also an "X factor" involved in that as much as people hate Activision, Blizzard still managed to have a large degree of good will built up with fans, and also a much larger and more fanatical fan base for their products. You generally don't have all that many "Maxis Fans" or a yearly "Maxis-Con" for all the people wildly singing their praises, even if they are generally liked... without the whole "Blizzard" factor the EA-hatewagon enters into this unopposed, and this is pretty much their business practices inserted on a product that has up until this point been a single player sandbox (as opposed to Diablo which always arguably had some co-op/Battlenet type features, it being online all the time as opposed to just sometimes being the change).Ickabod said:
I think the problems were worse, and the lack of any kind of large scale good will, made this the bigger problem. At the end of the day people with Diablo 3 problems could at least envision a reason for them, and people were actually looking forward to the whole "online auction house" and getting online to engage in the favorite Diablo pastime of finding ways to harass other online players. Given that your typical Simcity player was asking "WTF does this even have to be online" since they pretty much just want to build a city for their own personal enjoyment, problems related to something most of them never wanted to begin with are even more unbearable.
The only sad thing here is that enough people bought Simcity where this is going to encourage EA in doing more and more of this kind of thing in the future, and in all honesty I expect these kinds of online launch problems are going to be expected as pretty much everything with the EA name has to deal with online congestion.
huh, i was only with a friend who was trying to play so i didnt care beyond waiting times... id like to change my vote to simcity xD lag is one thing, but full on roll-backs is another level of wtfAlfador_VII said:
still blizzard, i expected better of you.. but ur better than EA, so theres that
Diablo III's pre-order numbers should have given Blizzard enough information to prepare their servers, as well as the experience of running World of Warcraft - the largest MMO in the industry.
Instead, they did nothing and sat back and waited for people to basically stop trying to play Diablo III, and waited for the the population to level out. They, quite literally, did nothing.
Instead, they did nothing and sat back and waited for people to basically stop trying to play Diablo III, and waited for the the population to level out. They, quite literally, did nothing.
Simcity is worse because there is no excuse to force people onto the always-online DRM.
The few people who can actually play online are losing save files and sometimes being forced onto other servers because of the other players. At least with Diablo 3 when you were able to log in you could actually play the damn game.
The few people who can actually play online are losing save files and sometimes being forced onto other servers because of the other players. At least with Diablo 3 when you were able to log in you could actually play the damn game.
Dunno, didn't buy either on launch. Wouldn't even have owned Diablo 3 at all if someone hadn't bought it for me as a gift and that was well over a month after the game had come out. I have no intention of buying SimCity at all sadly, I just don't feel comfortable supporting that sort of business practice with my wallet.
Same reason I don't own the new Heroes of Might & Magic game, or the new Settlers game.
Same reason I don't own the new Heroes of Might & Magic game, or the new Settlers game.
I didn't buy D3 until a week after release, so I missed most of the cock ups. That said, there was still considerable downtime going on for about a month afterwards, particularly on EU side. I seem to remember the servers would always go down right before an auction I was bidding on was about to end. I wasn't great, I must say.
As for Sim City; haven't bought it, but if I did I'd surely be expecting this kind of thing. Why are people still buying always-online games at the moment of release? Give it a few weeks and it usually settles down.
As for Sim City; haven't bought it, but if I did I'd surely be expecting this kind of thing. Why are people still buying always-online games at the moment of release? Give it a few weeks and it usually settles down.
Simcity is worse. Far worse. I haven't been able to play more than half the tutorial before the game either bugs or I lose connection and have to restart the game. Play the game you paid money for? No I'd rather prefer pressing buttons on a menu that don't do anything because the servers are down. I thought they would of waited a few years before the servers would go down, never have I been so wrong.
Well, Diablo III wasn't temporarily pulled from Amazon due to early server issues (was it?) so I'll give this one to SimCity.
That being said, I didn't have a personal experience with either launch so I can't say much. Yup, filthy console peasant here.
That being said, I didn't have a personal experience with either launch so I can't say much. Yup, filthy console peasant here.