American McGee Wants Upset SimCity Gamers to "Relax"

[Magmarock]

American McGee Wants Upset SimCity Gamers to "Relax"

McGee thinks we should all just get along when it comes to launch failures and always-online DRM.

Do they think all the screaming and gnashing of teeth actually helped resolve those issues more quickly?

Yes, because that's what these companies respond to: well-deserved public relations fallout

"Just because you've given a restaurant your business doesn't entitle you to throwing molten cheese fries in your waiter's face if your margarita comes out frozen instead of on the rocks," McGee continued. "People need to relax a little and stop turning everything into World War III - Gamers vs. The Man. There are no winners in that scenario."

If that margarita cost $60 up front, never arrives, & the waiter tells you that you'll be banned from the restaurant if you ask for your money back? Hmmm, lemme think...

I was going to post a comment along these lines, but you saved me the work.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Sure, they didn't intend for it to happen, but it did. EA are an old enough company to be able to predict this kind of response. ESPECIALLY after the launches of games like GW2 and D3 had the exact same issues.