Comments on: Review: SimCity (iPhone/iPod Touch)

By: Chaaaaaanelleee

Chaaaaaanelleee — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:12:37 +0000

I just dont get how you get money to build the city . and how you knock the whole city over to start again coz i stuffed mine up . oh gossh . its to hard !

By: aj

aj — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:27:37 +0000

i need to know how to get residents on a tutorial city i hav an awsome city

By: Jayden

Jayden — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:27:19 +0000

of course the smaller app designers do better becoz they dnt make large apps like SimCity. I love simcity on PC but Im worried to purchase it for my iPod. Of ur wondering I wrote this on my iPod lol

By: Tyler Tschida

Tyler Tschida — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:35:13 +0000

@Richard – EA doesn’t seem to have an answer either. They have released updates stating that “crashing issues” have been resolved but to no avail. There are a few other big name games at the App Store that are poorly programmed and just aren’t worth a dime. It’s sad really, the smaller developers seem to be doing a better job.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:56:55 +0000

About 300k, May 7, 2006, like clockwork. From everything I’ve read, it seems like this problem is almost universal, though the time of onset seems to vary within certain parameters. If this doesn’t get fixed soon, how can I ever buy an EA game for my iPod ever again?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:56:03 +0000

Crashes every time I play (my city is about 350k.) How can a gaming company as big as EA take so long to fix this major bug/flaw in a $10 game???

By: martyn

martyn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:16:59 +0000

Soooo frustrating! Do you think it is likely they will ever fix it?

By: Tyler Tschida

Tyler Tschida — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:09:57 +0000

@martyn – Mine crashes sometime in 2056 so it’s not the date that causes it. It does crash consistently though in 2056 for me. Odd.

By: martyn

martyn — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:10:44 +0000

My half finished city has a pop of around 150k. I have been playing on it for ages to get it up to there. It crashes on the same date every time… Sep 13 2026. Just wanted to check whether anyone elses crashes on this date. It is the only time mine has crashed, and I have been playing on it for 2 days!

By: Tyler Tschida

Tyler Tschida — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:37:39 +0000

@Shaun – I love the game too, my favorite app until recently. The problem is that I defended this game when everyone asked, “does it crash like everyone says it does?” At that point I assumed it just didn’t crash and everyone was crazy. Like I said before, I am not certain the city size is what makes the game crash but I can’t attribute it to anything else. The game was fine up until that point.