Electronic Arts Suspends SimCity Marketing - UPDATED
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"Listen, we've been running some projections and have decided it's no longer in our best interests to market the game."
"What?! How can that be?!"
"Well, according to the server stats, we've already sold as many copies than there are people who exist on the planet, so it would be physically impossible to sell even more copies than that."
"LETS KEEP TRYING, THE SERVERS CAN TAKE IT."
"What?! How can that be?!"
"Well, according to the server stats, we've already sold as many copies than there are people who exist on the planet, so it would be physically impossible to sell even more copies than that."
"LETS KEEP TRYING, THE SERVERS CAN TAKE IT."
The fact that they only do it in countries they are legally obliged to do it and not in nations where they can get away with not doing it does them no credit.direkiller said:
It's also a sign that consumer laws in the United States are a joke.
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! STOP SELLING OUR GAMES!!!
We can't handle it anymore! It's a disaster! We fried 7 server farms already just trying to handle all the login attempts! Please stop buying our game! We beg you."
You know things are FUBAR when EA takes steps to prevent more game sales.
EA refunds. Ha! They refuse to offer refunds because the current situation is "not exceptional" enough to qualify.
We can't handle it anymore! It's a disaster! We fried 7 server farms already just trying to handle all the login attempts! Please stop buying our game! We beg you."
You know things are FUBAR when EA takes steps to prevent more game sales.
Guess we should just accept it and move on. Also yes getting a refund from EA would be nice. Next I am going to ride my purple unicorn of into lala land where you are apparently permanently residingKarathos said:
EA refunds. Ha! They refuse to offer refunds because the current situation is "not exceptional" enough to qualify.
To be fair EA needed this, i'm not going to hate on them it's a company that makes money. Anyway EA had become complacent over it's abilities to 'churn' out games. It thought it had unlimited resources and the capacity to sell anything. Turns out it doesn't and the community at large is ripping it a new one.
Is Sim City a good game in its self? I wouldn't know I haven't played it but considering the questionable business practices of EA has employing over the past few years. It seems to have made the slide to shareholder friendly firm with total focus on draining as much from the customer as possible. Sim City is the epitome of what EA has become, maybe now is the time to rethink its strategy.
Is Sim City a good game in its self? I wouldn't know I haven't played it but considering the questionable business practices of EA has employing over the past few years. It seems to have made the slide to shareholder friendly firm with total focus on draining as much from the customer as possible. Sim City is the epitome of what EA has become, maybe now is the time to rethink its strategy.
Say what you will about Halo, at least Bungie/Microsoft said "Okay, we need to test our servers and make absolutely sure they work."
Here, it's not even attempted.
Here, it's not even attempted.
I think the greatest crime here is that SimCity is supposedly REALLY GOOD when, you know, you can actually play it.
But I'm not willing on spending $73 USD to buy the damn thing in New Zealand and I am not comfortable in voting with my wallet for a product that has an always online requirement.
But I'm not willing on spending $73 USD to buy the damn thing in New Zealand and I am not comfortable in voting with my wallet for a product that has an always online requirement.
Seconded. Hooray for schadenfreude. Especially after that argument I had with a coworker about whether or not always-on DRM can piss right off--my position is that yes, it actually can, and the sooner the better. I assume that, by now, he's beginning to reconsider his position on the matter.The Philistine said:
The servers had issues from too much of a strain. This means that there was a ton of users connecting, for else the servers wouldn't have had issues. This means that a ton of people bought it, for else they wouldn't be users.kyoodle said:
EA does not process refunds. This means that there will be no retracted sales, for else a refund would indeed be processed.
Conclusion: The game did sell very well, for else there wouldn't have been a ton of people who bought it while no sales are retracted.
-- Please note, I'm speaking in hyperboles here. EA apparently does offer some refunds and EA probably didn't even calculate how many users they'd have to anticipate to break even ... Soo ... yeh, in practice, this logic doesn't work out, but it's a nice theoretical construct.
TL;DR: People will probably still lose their jobs because EA likes to blame devs and customers rather than themselves, but the game sold well.
The only person who will be fired is the hamster that powers their SimCity servers.kyoodle said:
My guess is, a massive glitch rears it's ugly head X number of days that stops the game recognising peoples legit online passes (I've not really looked into this, but it's an EA game, there's got to be an online pass right?) meaning none of them can actually play the game anymore. EAs attempts to fix the issue ends up destroying the multiverse.Longstreet said:
I'd say this is funny, but I was a real big Sim City fan back in the day, so it's also kind of sad to see, in a way.
