Each time nothing happened and I went into task manager and it said the application was "not responding" each time. I am DSL using a router and a firewall. Has this happened to anyone before and what did you do about it?

If you have a router (as you said you did), you have to open many of the ports listed in the ReadMe for Play the World.

However, the "not responding" thing sounds like you have more problems than the router...

I experienced the same sort of problem, I would recomend turning off the firewall.

Have you patched up?

Have you got gamespy arcade...is that patched up?

I happen to know a little bit about computer programming and the directx technology currently in use is quite advanced. The fact that this game fails completely on all fronts with respect to "online" gaming points to the blatant fact that firaxis (or infograme) put a buggy, nonfunctional product on the market. I paid the money for the game and will patiently wait for the patch (which by the way shouldnt be published so the game actually works) and see what happens. But, I am very wary of all products with either logo now printed on them now. In my view any corporation which would put out such a product has their bottom line as the primary consideration and not that of the consumer.


Forget suing for this guys, just realize that this company will screw you for some up front bucks. Personally, I hope this will ultimately work. But as a gaming community we should let our feelings be known that this is unacceptable and that the repurcussions for junk such as this will have long lasting consequences.
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I agree with fangnasher, I don't want my money back but I'll wait patiently for a new patch and not buy anything from these companies again. But those of us with routers shouldn't have to open ports and open ourselves to attacks by hackers just because we want to play a game.

But those of us with routers shouldn't have to open ports and open ourselves to attacks by hackers just because we want to play a game.

You're kidding right? If you have a router you're not playing any online games successfully without the proper ports being open, I promise you that.

Originally posted by Nelson1379
I agree with fangnasher, I don't want my money back but I'll wait patiently for a new patch and not buy anything from these companies again. But those of us with routers shouldn't have to open ports and open ourselves to attacks by hackers just because we want to play a game.

What are you smoking? The routers are doing their job!! You don't want a router with a lame duck firewall that doesn't work. That would be bad.

Of you have to open up the ports. This is by design. This is correct. There is no other way that is not insanely stupid.

Besides, I have a friend behind a router and everything works fine, as long as he doesn't try and host. If I host, it all works well, and there are no problems, as his router supports stateful packet inspection and is intelligent enough to let requested packets through.