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 12, 2013, 19:42
Re: SimCity: Now With 92% Less Crashing; Maxis Walks Back from Offline Comment Mar 12, 2013, 19:42
Mar 12, 2013, 19:42
 
Kajetan wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 19:17:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/simcity-server-not-necessary/

As it says: Servers are not necessary!


Crazy, and not totally unexpected. Thanks Kajetan.

Also found this:

http://kotaku.com/5990165/my-simcity-city-thrived-offline-for-19-minutes

19 minutes, no server.

If you think people were pissed about the slow server BS before, wait till the masses find out that the server isn't doing squat for the current city.

Ugly as it has been, it's about to get a lot worse.
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