CO has a dig at Maxis: SimCity 2013 through Chirper ... ?

[Tim Bo]

Playing away in my city yesterday, and suddenly a very, very odd chirp appeared ...

Is this a not-so-subtle dig at the failures of SimCity by our CO friends?

Perhaps it's more a dig at the shortcomings of the DRM system?

Or is this cheery chirp the work of a humourous modder, a bit of a hidden easter egg wrapped up within some other mod amongst the many I have running ...?

 

[hert]

It has to be a mod. Because all of CO chirps have a ton of hashtags in them.

 

[Co_Karoliina]

Those are not official content. Our chirps are written so that they stay within the 140 char limit (or very close, there's no actual limit but they keep the feeling of short twitter-like messages) and have hashtags.

 

[Greenslade]

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news/citiespds/

I approve of this new announcement!

 

[SimonJM]

CO are classier than to openly bash a competitor so candidly. That's for the fans to do

 

[Tim Bo]

Those are not official content. Our chirps are written so that they stay within the 140 char limit (or very close, there's no actual limit but they keep the feeling of short twitter-like messages) and have hashtags.

CO are classier than to openly bash a competitor so candidly. That's for the fans to do

So it would seem.

Wonder what mod it is that this was wrapped up within then ...

I have around 10 mods running, and many, many dozens of assets.

Not seen this chirp, or anything else non-standard, appear since ...

 

[simonmd]

Youre a day late for April fools.

 

[Greygor69]

CO wouldn't be so unprofessional as to produce something like this, at least IMO.

 

[TotalyMoo]

CO wouldn't be so unprofessional as to produce something like this, at least IMO.

Thank you Making fun at others expense is very distasteful.

 

[Shiggs]

well lets be honest, EA/Maxis got what they deserved. Though I still think the decision makers there got off easy, some of them still have jobs making decisions, you know.

 

[Stargatemunky]

"#EA are a bunch of fuckwits"

yeah totally legit.