Wish I bought the Windows version

I am exptremely disappointed with the Aspyr version of Sim City Complete Edition. It lacks the public play ability the Windows version has. It seems that this missing part precludes the fact that this version of Sim City was made specifically for public play.

This is my first Sim City game. I will only buy the Windows version of any other Sim City titles I may be interested in. I may buy the Windows version of this game when I want to play publicly, if that’s still possible now with the demise of Maxis.

Since this is my first Sim City game I now see why there are negative comments about city size being too small. They’re thinking of the old titles of big single cities while this game is more of a multiple city game where you want to play multiple cities, or play publicly with others playing other cities that cooperate. I find that I’ll have to play all 16 cities in a big region to fit all of the different important technical HQ and Division buildings. I do have to agree that city sites are too small.

Aspyr technical support is rather pathetic. The 1.01 update created some serious problems, obviously it was poorly beta tested before release. One tech helped me solve one problem but in doing so created a new problem for me. When I tried to contact AspyrJason again via chat I saw him enter and then leave, rather rude. Another, AspyrLucy, was much better about staying in contact via e-mail even after I had to restart my iMac. Unfortunately she had me download and install it again only to find that didn’t solve my problem. Lucy suggested to hide the Library files again that Jason had me show so I could delete a plist file. I sent Lucy a reply that that fixed my street upgrade problem yet several days later she sent me a clueless reply to an earlier e-mail telling me she didn’t know how to fix the medium street upgrade problem and that I had to bulldoze them before making high density streets from scratch, a big waste of Simuleons.

After these problems I will never buy another Aspyt title and any other Sim City games I’ll buy the Windows version. I’ve so wanted to find good games to play on my iMac yet can’t seem to find them. I’ll stick to buying Windows versions of games, I find I use the Windows mouse and keyboard with the games ported over from the Windows world. How idiotic is it to have an Alt-W command on a Mac keyboard? Yet that is what SimCity Complete has in it’s instructions.

OmniusPrime about SimCity™: Complete Edition