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Urban planner's single-player offline paradise!

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, the fan-favorite iteration in the long line of legendary urban planning simulations with a myriad of design options and factors to tweak and track, creating the ultimate sense of life-like complexity, is available 75% off on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 for the next 72 hours! Includes the Rush Hour expansion pack.

It all started 30 years ago, in 1984. An up-and-coming brilliant game designer by the name of Will Wright created an incredibly believable virtual city that astound the gamers with its level of detail and the amount of little things that were constantly happening in it. The city, though, served only the purpose of an interesting background to an action-focused title, Raid on Bungeling Bay. It would surely feel like a waste to see such a sophisticated simulation only as a "bells-and-whistles" addition. Luckily, 5 years later, Will Wright gave the gaming world the first SimCity game. The one we offer you today, the fourth--and according to many gamers, the best--part of the series is the result of almost a quarter of century worth of a concept's evolution.

In SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition you don't just build your city, you breathe life into it. Create a megalopolis by weaving together a tapestry of cities ranging from a bedroom community to a high tech urban center or a vacation destination to a farming village. You can create a region of interconnected cities sharing and competing for resources that are linked by a fully integrated transportation network. Use "god-like" powers to create mountain ranges, carve valleys, and lay rivers to construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. The new simulation engine offers immediate feedback so you can react to the needs of an expanding metropolis. Now individual buildings and their lots provide you with feedback. Use the My Sim features to personalize your Sim and immediately move him or her into any area and watch them experience life around town and get instant feedback on the city's progress. Each decision has a greater impact and gives you the ability to respond more effectively. The DRM-Free Deluxe Edition offered here, comes complete with the Rush Hour expansion, for an even more in-depth urban experience!

Every game in this great series offers the player hundreds of hours of fun and easily adjustable challenge to create a sense of immersion in a living, breathing metropolis. They all come with their very own special flavor, but most gamers agree that SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is the most delicious dish of them all. Grab it now, on GOG.com, for only $4.99! Remember to hurry, because the 75% release discount offer lasts for 72 hours only, that is until Sunday, June 1, at 9:59AM GMT.
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htown1980: I thought this release would make people happy but it appears people are still willing to complain.
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tinyE: "Build it....and they will complain."

That being said the automated streets in #4 can, as I said before, be a pain but I'm willing to bet some of our local experts have some tips on that so I'll probably be in here all week pestering people for tips.
I found Simcity 2000 was too complex for me. Original Simcity was all I could handle. I don't think I will try this.
I am so incredibly overjoyed by this release! Thank you thank you thank you GOG for coming through BIG!
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Matruchus: On that we agree but there are several old games with that price on gog and nobody is complaining.
You should check the release thread of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, or other older games that are priced above $9.99 ;) I don't like the base price either, but I see where it's coming from. Just look at this "awesome" release discount. People go crazy because it's 75% off. 9.99 with 50% off would be the same, but 50% isn't a noteworthy discount to most gamers anymore.

You want to sell your game? Double the base price and do 75% off sales really often. You want whining? Set a reasonable price and do 50% off sales every now and then. I don't complain anymore... I just buy my games at silly discounts, instead of buying them at a reasonable price whenever I want to.
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htown1980: Computer say its $5
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Impaler26: Sure, that's the release discount. :D
But the base price is $20 which is way too high.
But you can buy it for $5.

Why are you complaining about a price that you cannot even buy it for? If you want it, buy it for $5. If you don't, don't buy it. If you want it, but not now, buy it later when its on sale for $5. I'm sure there is plenty of other theoretical problems you can complain about while you wait… :)
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htown1980: I thought this release would make people happy but it appears people are still willing to complain.
[facepalm]
My loved GOG´ers, please stop complaing and start buying it NAO! No doubt best release this month (and second this year, losing to STALKER only). What is your problem folks? The need to find something to complain is too high here.
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vulchor: I am so incredibly overjoyed by this release! Thank you thank you thank you GOG for coming through BIG!
Yay!
The ultimate SimCity game, you should definitely buy this one if your into building/managing games. So hurry up while it's discounted.
I already have a boxed version so I can allow myself to pass this one. :)
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GOG releases a ten-year-old game that has about 2000 votes on the wishlist and people still complain.

Maybe I should stop reading the release threads, they are really depressing...
Post edited May 29, 2014 by PaterAlf
awesome! thanks!
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PaterAlf: GOG releases a ten-year-old game that has about 2000 votes on the wishlist and people still complain.

Maybe I should stop reading the release thread, they are really depressing...
Probably the same people who bitch that GOG doesn't monitor the wishlist.
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Matruchus: On that we agree but there are several old games with that price on gog and nobody is complaining.
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real.geizterfahr: You should check the release thread of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, or other older games that are priced above $9.99 ;) I don't like the base price either, but I see where it's coming from. Just look at this "awesome" release discount. People go crazy because it's 75% off. 9.99 with 50% off would be the same, but 50% isn't a noteworthy discount to most gamers anymore.

You want to sell your game? Double the base price and do 75% off sales really often. You want whining? Set a reasonable price and do 50% off sales every now and then. I don't complain anymore... I just buy my games at silly discounts, instead of buying them at a reasonable price whenever I want to.
I know, as I said there several games on gog at that price category with around 10 year since release and nobody is complaining its just strange to see a game being sold for 3.73€ at the moment and people are complaining. And the game is going to be discounted for 3 days at that price. Obviously I bought the game. I think its probably the genre they don't like.
Post edited May 29, 2014 by Matruchus
Great news, I'd love to see more old EA stuff in the store. :)
Like a C&C complete collection. ;)
Really pleased to see this here, though a bit torn as I bought it last year on Steam for €2,99. Buy & support GOG/DRM free releases or save the money for another game.

I absolutely loved the "Single player offline paradise" jab. Well played, though I'm surprised EA approved the release text with that :)
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HWsGC: Great news, I'd love to see more old EA stuff in the store. :)
Like a C&C complete collection. ;)
Yeah, I would kill for C&C for sure.
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liamphoenix: This, being the worst SimCity game with a number attached to it, I'll only pick up on sale even here. Now SimCity 3 with the expansions, that I'd hop on without trying to decide if it's worth doing, just like with SC2K.
Don't remember this being consider the worst SC with a number attached. But then its been a while since I played the SC games, I have fond memories of SC2K and I'm not sure if I played SC3 now.