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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 $4.99! Remember to hurry, because the 75% release discount offer lasts for 72 hours only, that is until Sunday, June 1, at 9:59AM GMT.
Yeah, SimCity 4 with 5$ is insta-buy for me as well.
The game has solid mechanics like all other SimCity games, but much more depth in terms of options to adjust in order to achieve maximum city efficiency.
Played this for a lot some years ago.
The turn-offs then were 1) frame rate issues (I think it's wasn't due to hardware, but due to graphics optimization)
2) Frequent crashes to desktop. very annoying.
Oh, and the traffic algorithms were not perfect.
However, as previous posters have mentioned there is a HUGE modding community for practically everything, from curved highways to public transport traffic optimization.
I'm surprised you don't have the Mac edition as I though GOG had a commitment to that platform. Is it because it's £14 on the Mac App Store?
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Tomatko: This was something awsome gog. I was really hopping to get something from EA. You made my day.. and the price (for 72hrs) is something that can't be overlooked. Now, some more games to add to catalog:

NFS 1,2,3,4,5,6 - They were a benchmark for racers (well, except 6, maybe 5, but 5 was really great)
C&C - as westwood is belonging to them, it would be also great :)
Harry Potter - hehe :)
NHL - yeah.. some cool good old NHL :)
FIFA - i remember that 97 and 98 :)
BATTLEFIELD 1945,2 - WHOOOAAA.. yes, i know that they shutdown servers but for LAN ;)
Black and white - anyone ?

Once again.. thx :)
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park_84: I wouldn't hold my breath for those games tied in with third party IPs...
Exactly, have you seen how many EA games aren't even on origin because of licenses?
GOG, you guys never cease to impress me. Not only is this a fantastic license for GOG to have, but the super generous discount (I really thought the $5 was a glitch at first) upon release is just perfect for an impulse buy. Done and done :)
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park_84: I wouldn't hold my breath for those games tied in with third party IPs...
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BananaJane: Exactly, have you seen how many EA games aren't even on origin because of licenses?
Like Battle for Middle Earth and Battle for Middle Earth 2 plus expansion?

It is hard not to notice all the EA Titles not offered on Origin...

However, I did manage to pick up this new GoG release of SimCity 4 Deluxe edition,
which was hard to pass up at 4.99 as an introductory discount... ;)
Awesome release + great discount = instabuy. As simple as that.
Discount aside What the hell gog? You've released newer games than this claiming they're good old games with the appropriate price point... now you release simcity 4 at a higher tier than $9.99?

(edit: I did buy it to support gog and to have a drm free version but I still think that normal price of $19.99 is cheeky.)
Post edited May 29, 2014 by serpantino
Great to finally have SimCity 4 here. I hope we'll get SimCity 3000 too.
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serpantino: Discount aside What the hell gog? You've released newer games than this claiming they're good old games with the appropriate price point... now you release simcity 4 at a higher tier than $9.99?

(edit: I did buy it to support gog and to have a drm free version but I still think that normal price of $19.99 is cheeky.)
We don't control the prices, we can suggest a price but the rights holder/publisher has the final say :)
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serpantino: snip
One quick Google search would tell you that it goes for a regular price of $20 on every other digital retailer. That's EA's, not GOG's doing.

So why not take advantage off the GOG release discount? I sure did! ;)

Edit: Ninja-ed by a smurf. Who'd a thunk? =P
Post edited May 29, 2014 by mistermumbles
Good release GOG. If I did not already have it on disc I would get it. Keep up the good work :)
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serpantino: snip
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mistermumbles: One quick Google search would tell you that it goes for a regular price of $20 on every other digital retailer. That's EA's, not GOG's doing.

So why not take advantage off the GOG release discount? I sure did! ;)

Edit: Ninja-ed by a smurf. Who'd a thunk? =P
Staff advantage is why I am able to ninja folks on certain topics :P
So... I am with people who have questions about the stability issue of this "SimCity 4 DE - GOG version". Or maybe anyone from GOG team could explain ? Does the stability got improved somehow ?

I remember played it and sometimes the game crashes, which is also crashed my cities after built if for one hour. Plus I forgot to save frequently.
Need. More. Sim. Games.

That being said, I might seriously consider picking up another game this month. Damn! :)
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serpantino: Discount aside What the hell gog? You've released newer games than this claiming they're good old games with the appropriate price point... now you release simcity 4 at a higher tier than $9.99?

(edit: I did buy it to support gog and to have a drm free version but I still think that normal price of $19.99 is cheeky.)
It's easy. EA thinks:
- sales are cool
- 75% off is cool
- selling SimCity 4 for $5 in a sale is cool
- $5 x 4 = $20

Yeah, you could tell EA that 50% off with a price of $10 gives th same result... But 50% off isn't 75% off.