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ggrobot
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 Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:20 am Post subject: SimCity Is Going Down [34777] |
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Looks like EA has managed to fuck things up even more  In order to
offer better stability, EA removed the Cheetah mode of SimCity and as you
may have expected, a lot of PC gamers got angry with that decision.
Funny thing is that things did not improve and EA's servers went down
once again. In an unexpected turn
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Source: GGMania headlines
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Thudo
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| Gawd.. EA... PAATTHHETTIC! McDonalds of the Gaming Bizz except McDonalds doesn't remotely f-up like this. |
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Csimbi
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| Rest in peace! You won't be missed. |
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heretic
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PCMag.com - An Open Letter to EA on SimCity: You Could Have Prevented This.
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Dear Electronic Arts,
My mother always told me that it's petty to say "I told you so" when proven right. That's why I really hope she isn't reading this, because I have a message for you: I told you so.
But it's not just me; a big chunk of the gaming community feels the same way. I don't want this to seem petty, but I genuinely want you to learn from your mistakes, so you don't repeat what's shaping up to be one of the most embarassing game launches in years.
So far, Amazon has 1,091 one-star user reviews for SimCity out of 1,213 reviews total (and I'm pretty sure several of the five-star reviews are being sarcastic). A Change.org petition has raised over 35,000 signatures in two days demanding that you offer a single-player, offline mode in SimCity and eschew always-on online for games. Polygon has revised its score of SimCity increasingly downward from 9.5 to 4. At PCMag, we even came up with seven SimCity alternatives for players who don't want to deal with server problems.
You could have prevented this, if you listened to us. We (gamers, game journalists, tech journalists, and the online community in general) have been warning you about the problems of an always-on multiplayer feature in a game that doesn't inherently have a multiplayer aspect. We talked about Diablo III and its problems at launch, and how the game had a much, much more compelling reason to be online dating back to the early days of Battle.net. We talked about how people like to play SimCity when they have no Internet access, or when they're traveling, or want to revisit a beloved game years from now but are thwarted by server issues.
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