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Origin Is Currently Having A Huge Sale
The narrative surrounding EA at the moment is currently a pretty grim one. Customer dissatisfaction, its CEO stepping down, Sim City woes. So how do you change the tide? I suppose a sale is as good a place as any! Right guys, right?
Origin Breaks Its Concurrent Users Record ‘Thanks’ To Sim City
EA’s Origin service is hardly the most popular service amongst gamers. From reactions on here, many folks seem to grudgingly use it for their Battlefield 3 fix but still — it’s a growing service. This week, most likely as a result of SimCity sales, and possibly even SimCity’s very public online woes, Origin propelled itself to new concurrent users record.
Rumour: New Video Shows SimCity’s Debug Mode, Allegedly Has Near-Unlimited Offline Play
Well, that didn’t take long. A video recently uploaded by Redditor AzzerUK shows what appears to be the game’s fully unlocked debug mode.
SimCity Boss On Game’s Failure: ‘This Is On Maxis. We Own It.’
After fielding some 1900 questions in a 45-minute Twitter Q&A, Maxis, the maker of SimCity, directly answered about eight regarding the game, which has been inaccessible to many since it released last week.
It Would Take ‘Significant Engineering’ To Make SimCity A Singleplayer Game
Overnight (Australian time), Lucy Bradshaw, the general manager of SimCity maker Maxis, took over the studio’s official account to answer questions from gamers who, four days after the game’s release, are still unable to play the thing they purchased. Beforehand, she’s also previewed an answer to the question: Why can’t this game simply be played offline?
Why South Korean Gamers Are So Pissed About SimCity
Upset about the rocky SimCity rollout? Take heart. You are not alone. Gamers in South Korea are also not happy campers. But it’s not just due to the inability to play.
Can You Actually Get A Refund For Sim City In Australia? [Update]
Today, EA announced via its Twitter feed that it would not be providing refunds on digitally bought copies of SimCity via the Origin store. But what are your rights in this situation? In the case of SimCity, where a product is clearly not working as advertised, are you able to demand a refund? Turns out it’s a bit of a grey area.
SimCity: The Kotaku Review
To many fans of the original city-building simulation series, the idea of an online multiplayer game that required even solo players to be connected to the internet at all times seemed like a recipe for disaster. Maxis’ latest creation is easily the most compelling SimCity I’ve played since the 1989 original. It’s also a disaster.
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