Comments on: Quick App: SimCity for iPhone

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By: sunnshine_

sunnshine_ — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:05:59 +0000

waste of cash. really cool game, but the crashes are totally bs. if anyone finds a fix, email me at xhaleyannx@gmail.com. thanks

By: Seabass

Seabass — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:55:53 +0000

Crashes on startup every time, restarts/resets do nothing. Should be pulled from the App Store. [16gb iphone 3G v3.1]

By: Yumi

Yumi — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:23:35 +0000

Can’t get water in my city. Idk y

By: Damo

Damo — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:48:21 +0000

I have a 200K population city and ever time i go back to the saved game, a bunch of streets and pipes are not there anymore. It’s different streets and pipes every time.

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:11:02 +0000

I can’t get any power Help??? it’s driving me crazy I’ve rebooted…. reinstalled ….. Still no power what can I do??

By: Dondie

Dondie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:54:58 +0000

FYI: I couldn’t get people to move into my town. It was on pause. You have to hit the triangle Play button on the bottom right side and mess with that a little. People popped up instantly.

By: abby

abby — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:06:07 +0000

how do you get people to move into your town..

By: Ohio Magician

Ohio Magician — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:26:43 +0000

No idea what everybody is complaining about. I installed the app, rebooted my iPhone, and have not had a single crash of freeze up. I’m at a population of 420,000 and a budget of 2.5 Million. The game is still running fine. The only bad thing I found is if you don’t save often, you’ll beat your head against a wall when you get a phonecall, because that closes your game. iPhone is not multi tasking like Windows Mobile. Only 1 app can run at a time. After my budget being at 1.7 million, I had to go back to 800k after getting a phone call. Aaaargh!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:09:05 +0000

Mine worked ok… Some crashes… but bearable until things got to the point where it was just starting to get fun. Then it crashed every 10-20 minutes or so. I downloaded the latest version that promised more stability and now it crashes just a few minutes after opening everytime. I did everything they said but it just won’t work. Shame. EA should give us our money back, fix the game, them give us all a working copy to pay us for being their unwitting beta testers!

By: maddognico

maddognico — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:22:48 +0000

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! THIS DOES NOT EVEN OPEN TO CRASH – I’VE TRIED EVERYTHING AND FOR A $10 APP, THIS IS NOT COOL – EA figure it out or give everyone their refund. Why waste my money and time for something that doesn’t work at all… FEELS LIKE A SCAM!

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:30:43 +0000

My city population is at about 349,000 and it’s no longer playable. I was experiencing lots of random crashes before that, but now it’s impossible to do anything in the game. I have the oldest 8gig iphone with 2.2 jailbroken. Except for the annoying crashes and population limitations which cause more crashes, this is actually a good game. It would be nice to have different music or actually be able to play your ipod files. The graphics are excellent but that probably lends to the instability. I also noticed when you shake your iphone during gameplay it brings up a cheat dialog, here’s three cheats I googled so far. Nerdz Rule = industry builds tech. I am weak = build at zero cost. Pay tribute to your king = unlocks all buildings. I hope EA does something about the crashing/slow loading (which also leads to crashing if you get tap happy)

By: va1d1v1a

va1d1v1a — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:20:23 +0000

Yup…crashes….i have been playing this game all weekend. I started over about 3 times. Each time I can play for 5 hours non stop (no joke, its addicting) and then once the city reaches over 100,000 citizens, it crashes. So, I build a lil…save…crash…build a lil…save…crash…build a lil…save…crash…build a lil…save…crash..build a lil…save…crash…build a lil…save…crash..until I get frustrated and start a new city.

By: Pinny

Pinny — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:56:08 +0000

I too find that with a large population it crashes constantly.

By: James

James — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:19:41 +0000

I can’t get the game to open… it sticks at the loading screen….. thanks for wasting my ten bucks….

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:40:32 +0000

Once your city size gets above 300,000 or so the game is unplayable. Crashes every time you play.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:44:35 +0000

Four weeks ago I bought the Sim City game for iPhone at the iTunes Store, but I’t crashes a lot. I downloaded the last update, and restarted the iPhone twice, but still not working, what can I do? I’m very disappointed

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:13:54 +0000

Do not buy!!! Too risky. It will simply NOT even open after several reboots and re-installs. I paid 10 bucks plus tax to see the Sim City logo!!!!

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:02:59 +0000

no matter what u do Simcity will not download on my iPhone. WTF?

By: JoeC

JoeC — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:55:53 +0000

Just amazing this game, I downloaded it about 2 weeks ago, and I have to agree, it looks so nice, and it’s been amazing to play and zoom in. Unfortunately it had a bad habbit to crash the iPhone, even to the point that it would freeze up my iPhone for a few minutes.

Finally, a few days ago, EA released a free update to “increase stability of SimCity on the iPhone”. And I have to agree, it’s just an amazing update! The app no longer crashes and freezes my iPhone! No instead it just crashes the app itself after about 10 seconds, so much about “increased stability of SimCity”!

I cannot recommend this game, for a game created by one of the largest computergame companies in the world, it feels like a huge deception, especially for 9$99!

Sincerely,

Joe

By: buttmunch

buttmunch — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:59:35 +0000

i love ballsack

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:31:46 +0000

Mine crashes every time on opening. Is there any news of some updates to fix this major bug? Kind of thinking I want my 10 dollars back…

By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:19:25 +0000

Unbelievable. This thing crashes constantly. EA used to provide the best quality games back in the Amiga, early PC days. For them to put this out shows how far they have come (backwards) Avoid like the plague until they actually TEST this thing BEFORE releasing it.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:06:01 +0000

To avoid crashes, make sure you’ve updated to 2.2, and reboot immediately after you download the app. I have had no big problems, other than the fact that it takes a long time to load initially…once the game begins, everything works pretty well. There are a few problems; for some reason it doesn’t want to let me build any bridges, and the way it is calculating the budget seems off somehow, but I expect they will fix these problems in the next update.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:38:14 +0000

Works amazingly!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:57:53 +0000

Not really a crash for my put plays the music and I just get a white screen. Have to do some crazy sleep button home button combo and it comes back.

By: Milad

Milad — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:05:23 +0000

Ok so I ran (well tap my way) to the app store.Im a huge fan of the original simcity games.However 10 bucks later, Im fighting the urge to throw my beloved iphone against the wall…the app CRASHES constantly,the music is cute for a hot minute till you decide to listen to something else and realize you are STUCK with the same jazzy tunes over and over again…cute graphics tho…(from the few minutes the game actually runs before crashing ofcourse…)

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:36:43 +0000

It crashes every time for me. Never launches. Tried uninstalling and restarting the iPhone. Still nothing.

By: lev

lev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:10:35 +0000

darnel= you have to update to 2.2 it did the same thing to me for another game.

By: Darnel

Darnel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:38:15 +0000

I can’t buy this app because it says that is not compatible with my phone. The same happened with monopoly. Can someone shed some light on this issue?? I’m running version 2.1 jailbroken.

By: shon

shon — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:24:18 +0000

Yeah, this thing is buggy as all can be. I had only placed a power plant and some power wires and it crashed, then it crashed on boot the next time. then I got like 3 power lines and a road and then it crashed… This app definitely needs a ton of work. I feel like they could have sacrificed some of the visual candy for some function.

By: Luke W

Luke W — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:09:58 +0000

Damn! I have to go out and buy another iTunes card now! I only have $11 left and the game is $12.99 (I live in Australia).

By: Brian Rubin

Brian Rubin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:45:02 +0000

I’ve only fiddled with the tutorial city so far, but so far I think it has a lot of potential…especially once I get used to the controls. It certainly had the same “wow, this is all mine” feeling that earlier versions of SimCity had, so I’m pretty positive so far on this one.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:48:14 +0000

You need to manually search for it. Because it is the international version that is available to us.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:22:39 +0000

@Dalekkiller

I've heard from numerous UK store users that it is indeed there. You may want to try searching for it manually in the UK iTunes store. Sometimes when new items are added to iTunes, it takes a while for all of the links to connect between the different intra-national stores. I don't know technically why this happens, but my experience is that when new things are added to multiple stores, they are available in the US store immediately and over the following 24 hours or less, they populate the other stores.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:09:26 +0000

Just in time for Christmas break. I’ve already downloaded, and played a little bit. The graphics and control are very nice. Although it is a little buggy. I recommend you reboot your iphone after you install it. Great game though!

By: Brian Hart

Brian Hart — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:55:57 +0000

Yay I remember the days of the original SimCity. So much for my spare time.

By: Emeus

Emeus — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:38:54 +0000

@ Riv runs on my JB iPhone fine. Fist impressions are pretty good. This is a very intuitive game so it will take some getting used to and figuring out. Read the instructions? pfff thats for losers. lmao

By: Riv

Riv — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:20:09 +0000

This app crashes every time I run it. I'm on a 3g 2.2 firmware jailbroken phone.

Has anyone got this to run on a jailbroken phone?

By: mattwlk2

mattwlk2 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:09:01 +0000

Good point tom

By: msbaylor

msbaylor — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:02:12 +0000

downloading…

By: Dalekkiller

Dalekkiller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:45:51 +0000

I was looking forward to this but am very sad as I’ve just got a “not available in the UK store message”. It really annoys me that apps like gas buddy and traffic cams for US cities which are useless to me are available in the UK store, but games like this and gamelab are not available. Anyone know why this happens?

By: tom

tom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:44:12 +0000

do you work for free, bob?

By: steve

steve — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:43:11 +0000

Because it’s EA and money is still green

By: frog

frog — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:41:37 +0000

Looks great.

By: bob daye

bob daye — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:26:50 +0000

Isn't the desktop version free? If so, how come no free version for iPhone? At least a trial version.

Bob