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 12, 2013, 08:56:
Better late than never.

Yeah, I guess so. It would have been better had it been done from the start. Had people shunned Diablo 3 for its bullshit, and had sites like RPS called Blizzard out for it, SimCity would now have simply had a single player mode that's offline. But the message after D3 was loud and clear: Always-on DRM? NO PROBLEM!

I do agree with his statement that all this must really confuse the fuck out of Ubisoft.

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