9lives.be: "Monte Cristo has just announced that they decided to put an end to the Planet Offer in Cities XL as of March 8th 2010. It will no longer be possible to subscribe to the game starting Monday February 1st 2010."
This week’s Humble Weekly Bundle, Focus Home Interactive 2, features a variety of different games which will please RPG fans to city-simulator fans. Notably, unlike normal bundles there are four tiers (compared to the usual three) — when you buy into one tier, you can’t change the size of your order without contacting Customer Support.
In Episode 52 of the Game Under Podcast, Phil Fogg explains why he's taking 20 hours to finish Shovel Knights (he is an accidental platforming masochist), and Tom Towers declines to play anything: instead he joins Phil in an all encompassing discussion on videogame criticism!
CitiesXL Platinum gets a release trailer with buildings being build to the sound of dubstep music.
I like how they put "Build Huge Cities" in there. From what I see in Simcity. Cities are so small.
WOW!
seriously I was in the Beta in August and it was a TERRIBLE game, but still, 6 months and it goes down.
ouch.
It was a great idea, but even the Sims Online had to be pulled eventually. Really not something that works too well online since micromanagers don't often co-exist in peace.
Might work better in a traditional offline-game, with online cities uploaded to a central server to be downloaded (like Little Big Planet, e.g.)
It could've been the best city sim since Sim City 3000. Instead the subscription based online play killed it. Hopefully the next developers or Maxis can built a better game from this disappointment.
I hope this means that it will be possible to play the game without having to login to a server then. Thats the only thing that put me off buying the game.
What! This completely sucks. I was a big fan of the game but only subbed for one month after launch because of other gaming commitments at the time but planned to return soon.
What irritates me about this is the fact they have given up so quickly. Why not half the sub cost - this could lead to triple the amount of subscribers. They should try other methods to work it out rather than simply outright can it. A ton of work must have gone into that portion of the game, to just remove it outright sucks...