simcity disaster-watch
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EA Honestly Believes SimCity Has Been A ‘Success’
SimCity had one of the most catastrophic launches in video game history. Even after the server problems went away, fans slowly found out the game was a city-building mirage, with many key features and mechanics simply not working. Somehow, at EA, this qualifies as a “success”.
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SimCity Now Features Disappearing Mouse Cursors
SimCity’s latest v3.0 update has added an exciting new feature to the game: a disappearing or erratic mouse cursor. It’s easily fixed, but also a ridiculous bug to come up so long after release.
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SimCity 2.0 Update Brings A Rash Of New Bugs
This week, hopeful eyes turned to SimCity as the troubled city-building game received its first major patch. Maxis has promised that SimCity 2.0 would fix a number of bugs in the game, but it sounds like the 2.0 patch has also brought with it a raft of new, equally annoying bugs.
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Coders Discover 20-Minute Offline Timeout In SimCity
Last week, two of our writers played SimCity and deliberately turned off their Internet connections, both finding their games continued normally and then abruptly ended after 20 minutes. Someone now has posted what appears to be code for the game that orders a shutdown after a disconnection exactly that long. That allegation further punctures the…