EA is having severe launch problems for SimCity today. Many people, including us here at Den of Geek!, are having issues even connecting to the servers to play the game. All North American Servers are full or busy, and unconnectable. And, you can try joining another server not in your region, but you're unable to create a city to start playing.
We're beyond frustrated because we cannot even play the game to review it for you guys, but we're not alone. There are numerous enraged gamers around the net due to not being able to play SimCity.
Some games force online-only measures onto people. It sucks! Especially when some titles, like these seven, 100% didn't need it.
i meant what to gain from this knowledge, this list, whats the point of it why make it why should i know these games, sure yeah i do recall some games needing me to be online even to play single player but, why should i know this "seven times" thing
You are either sort of young or very old and have memory issues.
Besides the internet can go down for various reasons.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, “Simulated.”
EA has something of a reputation when it comes to awkwardly handling much-loved franchises. Here are 7 that Screen Critics feel they ruined.
Need for Speed as well. Here's to hope that the new one will be a return to form for the franchise.
Dead Space was the worst ruining... micro transactions in a full price game, with co op that was mandatory to get all the story and access to certain areas. Sure Rock Band was oversaturated, and Burnout was basically killed off even though it sold a ton on PS3 back in the day.
I really liked Burnout and Need for speed and thought no one will able to destroy this game.....I was WRONG!
Stunning.
They know a lot of people would purchase it, and instead of ensuring servers are ready (using the beta, and pre order figures), again they slip up.
All that money, you'd expect EA to get their servers right for launch. Might want to consider sorting out other parts of your business, before you implement micro-transactions into your games.
Oh, EA...
for those Twitter users out there, search for the #simcity tag and read what comes up. Hilarious!
Stupid DRM. This is why I will never buy a game with such restrictive DRM.
2013 and still have server issues. Sigh.