A new construction set of SimCity Societies screenshots has been accompanied by some literally educational news concerning the game.
EA, ya see, has teamed up with BP to educate y'all on climate change.
"The low-carbon electricity choices and monitoring of SimCity's carbon emissions provide an entertaining, fully-integrated and accurate look at some of the causes and some of the major solutions available to combat rising levels of carbon and to help address the threat of global warming", is the word.
SimCity Societies marks something of a departure for the series. Not only is it NOT in development at Maxis, city building is now all about dragging and dropping prefab houses, businesses, corrupt police stations and coffee bars onto a map - and your culture or urban persona you create is reflected in the music and detail of your city.
Seems a bit weird to me - an oil company fighting climate change? Won't they go bust if we switch to an alternate fuel source?
The BP logos are understandable on oil wells and petrol stations, but on a solar panel array? British Petroleum? Let me guess - their next move will be to change that to British Power instead...
Seems a bit weird to me - an oil company fighting climate change? Won't they go bust if we switch to an alternate fuel source?
The BP logos are understandable on oil wells and petrol stations, but on a solar panel array? British Petroleum? Let me guess - their next move will be to change that to British Power instead...
No, they diversify and adapt and partnering up with EA to help raise awareness is a way of increasing their revenue when they switch to be being a green energy provider!
Cynical in-game advertising at its worst! Yet again it's the major companies trying to "cash-in" on the latest political fad to score brownie points and increase sales!!
Whatever your political beliefs regarding "global warming", "global dimming" et al...force feeding that crap in gaming is pretty sad and i think gamers on the whole are smart enough to know that the "Green Debate" is better served elsewhere!
Seems a bit weird to me - an oil company fighting climate change? Won't they go bust if we switch to an alternate fuel source?
The BP logos are understandable on oil wells and petrol stations, but on a solar panel array? British Petroleum? Let me guess - their next move will be to change that to British Power instead...
Are you an idiot or somthing Bp does not stand for British Petroleum any more way back in 2001 they changed there name to Beyond Petroleum or Bp and promesed the world that they would become the world leaders at battling climate change and finding solutions thanks to bp in colabration with tyota we now have hybrid cars
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