SimCity Mac Launch Runs Into Trouble

[Haakmed]

Maybe this is how EA will stop having to make Simcity titles. If they just keep fumbling launches eventually even the die hards will give up.

 

[cerebus23]

Or how about giving people the full game some servers to play on if they so desired, hell maybe ip to ip play, personal lobbies the whole 9 yards.

Shocking want sim city? buy sim city 4. its the last proper one and it dont look too bad even today.

 

[Ayay]

Anyone that bought this crap after the screw up on Pc should have their head checked.The fact that a few players got it to work at all is the suprise here. But i have to give EA some credit it takes some serious moves to run such a big title into the ground after only one try.But hey maybe they can try selling Simcity on Wii U

 

[Teoes]

This is funny and all, but it's also quite a shame. EA did rather a lot in the space of a few weeks to earn them some good karma and try to fix up their reputation; however quickly they resolve these Mac issues and however small the percentage of affected users is, surely for the most part the bad press from this will just override any good they were able to do.

 

[lancar]

They almost always say "small number of players" no matter how many or few are having problems. It's par for the course to try and make the issue sound as insignificant as possible, as a matter of PR.

We can add it to the list of things publishers say because they think we'll fall for it, along with such favourites like "broadening the appeal" and "player choice".

 

[King of Asgaard]

Surprising no one ever...

You have to give it to EA though: No OS inequality from them, it sucks on everything.

Captcha: margin of error.
I ain't gonna lie, this made me chuckle.

 

[Marak Daga]

I have a question, has the pc version gotten cheetah speed back yet?

 

[Nurb]

Ha ha ha, isn't that just terrible for little ol EA? It almost seems like they're pushing things onto customers that they don't want it and making them suffer for it. May they suffer bankrupcy quickly.

 

[Somethingfake]

I must congratulate EA, never before has there been such an authentic and accurate port of a AAA game from one platform to another.

Damn, that's one good burn there, thanks for the laugh.

 

[rofltehcat]

This is just hilarious... you'd expect them to learn at least a little from such failures.

 

[Strazdas]

Well, at least they are used to things not working.
And ea is probably using same crappy system that it use for PC hence the problems.

 

[The AmeriCanadian Gamer]

I'm certain all 5 people who bought it are just terribly disappointed.

I think I love you, that just made my morning xD

 

[Milanezi]

Say it actually works out in a couple of months... Does anybody know if interaction between Mac users and PC users will be allowed?

 

[CriticalMiss]

Is it possible that Maxis didn't actually port the game to Mac at all and just repackaged the PC failure? If they have been working on the Mac version for months and can't get that right, then they should probably leave the industry or start work on a spiritual successor to Big Rigs.

 

[alj]

Just a little PSA you can get a refund

https://help.ea.com/uk/article/returns-and-cancellations

But i mean come on who expected this to work in the first place?

 

[fwiffo]

EA figured any sales for this game, would be from people who don't read gaming news, so they wouldn't know what a piece of shit it is.

Sadly (I liked simcity 2000), I hope this is the last we hear of this game.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I must congratulate EA, never before has there been such an authentic and accurate port of a AAA game from one platform to another.

You, sir, win the Internets. All of the Internets.

Seriously, EA. You had one job, and yet you STILL manage to screw up the launch of a title that people legitimately still wanted despite the bad press on a platform that is in desperate need for good games. I mean... what's wrong with you guys?

 

[Atmos Duality]

It appears that EA gives no fucks.
So why should its potential customers?

I wonder how many fuckups or signs of contempt EA has to provide before people finally realize that maybe it's not a good idea to keep giving them money.

 

[Cpt. Slow]

Maybe it's time for EA to hang up the coding pads and sell their rights to games. Because apparently they can't make a decent game or port it to another system for that matter.

But I'm already done with the whole Simshity disaster. It's waiting for Battlefield 4 to bomb, and then they come full circle and it's adiós for EA.

 

[Genocidicles]

Why would anyone actually buy it in the first place? Surely the PC launch would be a good indication that EA has no fucking idea what they're doing?