I think I saw another thread about this somewhere. For some reason it just seems to be newegg. Tigerdirect and amazon still have them for around $600-$650.
I saw a post or trailer somewhere on IGN I think that talked about how Garrett has changed with the times and had to adapt. Something else about how fighting will kind of be a slow motion pick apart of the enemy. Think of the newer Sherlock Holmes movie where thinks the fight through then...
Yeah, I bit the bullet and bought it on Origin because of the price. I guess what I was trying to say was yes, that was just the way I wound up doing it. Sorry if the other post was confusing.
I own the game and 2.0 does have a new mess of problems. Started a new city, didn't run into the sewage problem but found a couple of others. Trains no longer run so I get no passengers and no trading via the train system. Also whatever they did to the tourism part completely broke it as I get...
I've been having somewhat of the same problem on my laptop. After reading your post
I looked in to my connections a little bit more and I reset my IP address. Now my connection works just as good as it did before. Worth a try if nothing else works I guess.