{"id":9447,"date":"2013-03-07T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9447"},"modified":"2013-03-08T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T06:19:56","slug":"customer-reviews-simcity-standard-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9447","title":{"rendered":"Customer Reviews: SimCity &#8211; Standard Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The hours upon hours since launch that I haven&#8217;t been able to log in, whether it be sitting in queues, or server busy messages, or just plain old not working screens, I&#8217;ve managed to do a heap of things that I never do when I&#8217;m locked in my man cave playing video games.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve washed the dishes, the laundry, changed the oil in the car, mopped the floors, dusted, did a spot of gardening, greeted my children who I hadn&#8217;t really seen since Christmas, walked the dog, asked how my wife&#8217;s day has been and listened to the entire response, restocked the groceries and many more things! My family has never been happier that they&#8217;ve got a father and husband again.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I feel like Simcity has given me a new lease on life. This wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without the seemingly crazy decision to have constant online connections and server side save points even for single player.<\/p>\n<p>So I can only thank EA and Maxis. Your failures have been my rewards. 5 stars!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Electronic-Arts-41018ted-Edition2-SimCity\/product-reviews\/B007VTVRFA\/ref=cm_cr_pr_btm_link_next_3?ie=UTF8&amp;pageNumber=3&amp;showViewpoints=0\">Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: SimCity &#8211; Standard Edition [Download]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t ever recall a product launch that went this badly.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been playing Sim City since version 2 and was looking forward to this.\u00a0 This needs to be filed under what were they thinking?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hours upon hours since launch that I haven&#8217;t been able to log in, whether it be sitting in queues, or server busy messages, or just plain old not working screens, I&#8217;ve managed to do a heap of things that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[976,661,903,183],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-business-methods","tag-gaming","tag-simulators","tag-system-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9452,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions\/9452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}