![]() Many cities with towering skyscrapers are boring. Even 10 years ago it was way down the list. Actually, the closest anything so far is to the vast canyons of buildings is Dubai, which is now in the top 5 skylines in the world, can you believe it. ![]() Yes Shanghai may soon match or even surpass NYC in sheer numbers of skyscrapers. Skyscrapers and high rises is great, but there are plenty of other factors that make a city and place great.Ī city/place does not even need skyscrapers/high-rises to be a great place. Some pictures I saw of Shanghai does have a vastness feel that can compete with New York City. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. I read somewhere that it soon will have the most skyscrapers in the world and more than New York City and Hong Kong soon. I am sure you know that though because seem to enjoy plenty of different cities/places in general.Īlso Shanghai is rapidly developing its high rise skyline. However, there are plenty of great cities in the world and plenty of cities that still have their own big city vibe. That is true Manhattan does have a vastness feel to it. I am not sure why Milan is in the Alpha+ category. Tokyo is still cosmopolitan even if it may have a very high percentage of Japanese and a low percentage of other ethnicities.For two examples, Tokyo gets a ton of foreign visitors, and Tokyo has a ton of restaurants with all types of foods from different countries. Within 10 to 15 years, they probably will reach that category too. Yeah, I agree Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo can easily be Alpha++. ![]() The Alpha+ and Alpha++ stuff can get confusing!Īt first, I thought you said Paris and Tokyo are not Alpha+, but then I saw you meant the different Alpha ++ category instead. Shanghai, too, is probably not too far from approaching ++ status, as it's the economic hub of China. They are definitely the upper sub-tier of the Alpha+ category, and Milan sticks out as being very different from the four we're comparing. Tokyo is let down for being the least international of the mega-cities, especially being like 96% Japanese. They're definitely straddling them though. I feel Paris and Tokyo could easily be Alpha++ cities, although they don't have quite the global influence of NY and LDN.
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![]() ![]() I've done it, and I would do it again if I couldn't afford the games I wanted. So, if I buy a good pack and a bad pack for $40 total, it still evens out in such a way that I don't feel ripped off for giving EA my money, ya know?Ģnd edit: also, no judgment on people who do pirate. Some packs aren't even worth the $20 sale price tag. It's almost always more cost effective to wait for a sale to get the newest pack (I say "almost always" because if you're a paid content creator or modder, buying the pack early is an investment into your income).Īnd with sales or other less savory acquisition methods: some packs are (imo) worth the full $40 price tag. ![]() I don't do those things now, but I still won't ever buy Sims 4 packs at full price, anywhere: I've purchased them from EA direct, but only on sale.īeing an "early adopter" of new Sims content is almost always just a bad idea: packs come out broken or bugged and they break the mods that make the game playable. That said, in years past, I pirated when I was under- or unemployed, I've shared CD keys with friends/family so we could each have the whole set, and I've purchased packs from sketchy online retailers. I've purchased everything I have for the Sims 4, on account of the fact that I'm gainfully employed and enjoy the Sims franchise (I've played 1-4, starting when I was 12 years old). Those are the people who are likely to pirate a game-because it has potential, but that potential is not worth breaking the bank over. While this Reddit isn’t indicative of the larger offline sims community, it does represent a dissatisfied section that has a point about how much sims 4 has dropped the ball time and again. There is absolutely a subset of people who pirate games because they want stuff for free regardless of how it hurts the creators, but a much larger population only go to piracy as a last resort, when the thing they want to support isn’t giving them viable options to support it. Rather than giving my personal opinion, I think EA is going to see piracy increase the longer they rely on people buying the game because of FOMO or brand association rather than fixing issues within the game, or issues within their company/industry (such as low pay, resulting in less people working on the game). For a very long time they have been considered too pricey for the amount of content, even back in the earlier sims. Piracy in gaming is similar-games with a hefty price tag that don’t have a good Return On Investment get pirated-like the sims games. Once every company and their mother began to have their own streaming service, resulting in monthly fees that were as, if not more expensive than cable-what streaming services were meant to replace-piracy went back up again. We will walk you through how to download from Pirate Bay safely in a step-by-step guide in the next part.Ultimately, piracy comes from accessibility-when Netflix reigned supreme, piracy of movies and tv shows markedly went down. Yet, there are several caveats which concern the use of The Pirate Bay. You just need to search for your wanted torrent and then leave the rest to a BitTorrent client (think it as a TPB downloader). Believe it or not, The Pirate Bay is currently the best torrent repository, and you can count on it to have almost everything you want, games, software, music, books, movies, TV shows, you name it. The reasons lie in its reliability, usability, and popularity. In our previous article Best Torrent Sites, we have reviewed ten torrent sites that are faster and safer to use, and The Pirate Bay has topped the list. Please ensure your action is legal in your country/region. This guide is for educational purposes only. Disclaimer: We do not advocate any piracy or other illegal activity. |
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