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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Quboid wrote on Mar 11, 2013, 18:05:
That's looking at it the wrong way anyway. EA should be looking at increasing customers, not decreasing pirates - they don't actually matter.

Sadly, this is something that EA will NEVER figure out. They would apparently rather lose tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of customers because of their stupid DRM AND their stupid decision to drastically under-invest in infrastructure, than to try to actually gain any customers.

And like Kluwe said, he probably cost EA several thousand customers. I have no doubt people are malleable enough to see him rant about how fucking terrible the game is on Twitter, and decide to forego their purchase.

So it's basically just another EA clusterfuck all around. Which is pretty much the norm for them nowadays.

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