Zynga's hugely popular CityVille, once one of Facebook's favourite games, will close at the end of next month.
Between his work at Zynga engineering CityVille and FarmVille 2, and his current work as founder of indie mobile sim studio SomaSim Games, it's safe to say that Robert Zubek has a good handle on what's coming up next on the tech side of the games industry.
FleshEatingZipper writes: We’ve come up with so many different ways to brand them, but nothing so distinctive as to accurately pinpoint what kind of a game they are until you’ve already invested far too much time – or potentially given out your credit card number. From the same guy who brought you the November Release Death Schedule – or NeRDS – to describe the onslaught of games during the holiday comes MOMCOT, the new name for what we commonly call Zynga-likes.
Publisher Electronic Art’s latest city-building game is struggling. SimCity requires a constant connection to the Internet, but its servers are collapsing under high demand. Gamers can’t even start playing. Others are losing progress as connections timeout and the game fails to save. It’s a mess. EA is trying to fix the problem by adding new servers, but that could take a couple of days.
In the meantime, plenty of similar games are out and available even if you don’t have a reliable connection.
Anno has junk DRM, too. Not always-online, but activation limit without any revoke tools. I wanna try Cities XL, though.
Cities xl needs to be optimized. Once you reach a certain amount the game just slows down. Regardless of how much your pc can handle it. I have it and it pretty good. Just thats one of the major issues about It
I dont know if its just me but sim city 4 was Hard i could never balance it hospitals cost too much
Cites XL 2012 looks really cool. Might check that game out when I get the money. Any other recommendations?
