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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Mar 11, 2013, 11:45
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Re: SimCity: Now With 92% Less Crashing; Maxis Walks Back from Offline Comment Mar 11, 2013, 11:45
Mar 11, 2013, 11:45
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deqer wrote on Mar 11, 2013, 11:42:
IT IS POSSIBLE. YOU'RE SO FULL OF SHIT.

YOUR PROGRAMMERS WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT LIKE THAT. YOUR PROGRAMMERS WOULD'VE MADE SWITCHES FOR EVERYTHING, AND YOU CAN JUST SWITCH IT ON OR OFF, OTHERWISE YOUR PROGRAMMERS AREN'T REAL PROGRAMMERS.

STOP FUCKING LYING TO US ALREADY, YOU POS.

Why would they have been that redundant?
Coding for something to be done server-side and something to be done client-side is extremely different. Or, more accurately, coding for something to be done by a server is extremely different than coding the same process for a client. Extremely different. In one case it's all a system needs to do. In another case the system is doing tens of thousands of instances at the same time.

If you can avoid doing both you would.



Which doesn't excuse the decision to do it server-side in the first place, but it isn't hard to imagine that they wouldn't add these redundancies.
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