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.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, “Simulated.”
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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.
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.