SimCity: Now With 92% Less Crashing; Maxis Walks Back from Offline Comment

SimCity Update #4 is penned by EA Maxis SVP Lucy Bradshaw, who is "happy to report that the core problem with getting in and having a great SimCity experience is almost behind us," saying they have "reduced game crashes by 92% from day one." She admits she's not able to offer the "all clear" for the game she'd hoped to, but seems optimistic that they've turned the corner from the game's rocky launch. There's also a new tweet on the SimCity account quickly walking back from this tweet they posted over the weekend which said: "We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that as part of our earning back your trust efforts." It seems there is a disagreement among the operators of their twitter account, because the new update states this isn't actually possible: "The game was designed for MP, we sim the entire region on the server so this is just not possible."
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Verno wrote on Mar 11, 2013, 09:27:
Assuming it's feasible to reverse engineer in the first place, I'm not sure there is the interest level to bother unfortunately. I haven't heard of any efforts to do so yet.

I was going by the crack / emulation from one of the first "always on-line DRM" games that Ubi had... Driver San Francisco? Or maybe it was one of the Silent Hunters. I forgot which game it was... anyway... they came out with a crack / server emulator about 6 months after the game launched.

Granted.. that was probably a little easier, since it was more like "downloading small parts of the game as you go", and once you finished the game... you had a full copy locally, or something like that.

The tough part is breaking the encryption. Once they're over that hump, they can figure out what the server sends.
Get your games from GOG DAMMIT!
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