In light of SimCity's disastrous launch week, publisher Electronic Arts has suspended the marketing campaign for the game, according to an internal email obtained by Polygon.
The email, which was sent to all of EA's marketing affiliate partners, informs them that EA is deactivating links through LinkShare and that "we ask you to please remove any copy promoting SimCity from your website for the time-being."
Some games force online-only measures onto people. It sucks! Especially when some titles, like these seven, 100% didn't need it.
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Need for Speed as well. Here's to hope that the new one will be a return to form for the franchise.
EA should just announce there is a offline mode patch coming in a few weeks and then i would buy the game for sure. Cause it does look pretty good but there is no reason for it to be online only and im not gonna support that its not like the game can have goldfarmers or bots.
I wish Maxis could sever itself from EA before they get shut down for lackluster sales.Sad to see Will Wright's franchises get destroyed by EA's moronic decisions.
EA is great!
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I guess they are in damage control mode now and not let the fire spread as far as it has, which is pretty damn far!
I have a wonder. When EA sends out a memo, how fast does it take to become news?
this should have been predicted,diablo 3