Sim City is now down, the maintenance message is amazing

Solstice said:
I'm being realistic. EA shuts down servers all the time if they don't feel they're popular enough. They go through a yearly server culling.
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You aren't being realistic - you're being ignorant. Leaving servers up for what will most certainly be (and probably already is) a large commercial platform ripe for expansions gives this game FAR more than a year.
 
bar mitzvah said:
You aren't being realistic - you're being ignorant. Leaving servers up for what will most certainly be (and probably already is) a large commercial platform ripe for expansions gives this game FAR more than a year.
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How am I being ignorant? If the game tanks because so many people either:

A) Got a refund

or

B) Didn't buy the game due to the bad press

You can bet it will have an extremely small population playing it. If that's the case, they're not gonna keep the servers on forever, man.

But I'll revise my output to three years. After all, that's about the time they cut off the servers for the sports games and whatnot.
 
I don't know if this has been said yet, but SimCity 2000 is the third best selling game on GoG.com right now, after System Shock 2 and Deponia 2.
 
Solstice said:
How am I being ignorant? If the game tanks because so many people either:

A) Got a refund

or

B) Didn't buy the game due to the bad press

You can bet it will have an extremely small population playing it. If that's the case, they're not gonna keep the servers on forever, man.
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I never said that they would be up forever - I said that your assumption of their lifespan not lasting longer than a year is ignorant.

Bad press won't keep people from buying the game once Maxis figures out their server issues and casual gamers and grandmas see that it's safe to get back into the water. I highly doubt that the game will tank from refunds in the first week.

Edit: Just gonna add this - Diablo 3. Huge commercial failure (false)
 
Solstice said:
How am I being ignorant? If the game tanks because so many people either:

A) Got a refund

or

B) Didn't buy the game due to the bad press

You can bet it will have an extremely small population playing it. If that's the case, they're not gonna keep the servers on forever, man.

But I'll revise my output to three years. After all, that's about the time they cut off the servers for the sports games and whatnot.
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The Games not going to tank anyway, once the servers are up and running without issues than people are going to move on and buy the game.

It's probably going to end up like the Sims where they release expansions / mini packs every 6 months or so. EA is definitely guilty of closing servers off for some games after a small amount of time but there's definitely examples of them keeping servers on for long periods of time.
 
Lothars said:
The Games not going to tank anyway, once the servers are up and running without issues than people are going to move on and buy the game.

It's probably going to end up like the Sims where they release expansions / mini packs every 6 months or so. EA is definitely guilty of closing servers off for some games after a small amount of time but there's definitely examples of them keeping servers on for long periods of time.
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Ultima Online says "hi."
 
Raticus79 said:
Success - phone support is the way to go I think. About an hour on hold and 2 minutes talking. No BS there, got my $85 back.
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Awesome, man. Glad to hear. Need more success stories like this. Instead of just fuming in here we as a community should do what we can to make this problem big enough that it won't fit under the rug EA is trying to sweep it under.
 
I haven't bought an EA game in a long time but could someone clarify:

When EA shuts down sports game servers (Madden 20XX), you can still play offline right?

If EA shuts down Sim City Small next year, will you be unable to play single player?
 
Parallacs said:
I haven't bought an EA game in a long time but could someone clarify:

When EA shuts down sports game servers (Madden 20XX), you can still play offline right?

If EA shuts down Sim City Small next year, will you be unable to play single player?
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Not unless they do some major patchwork that probably will never happen.
 
Nokterian said:
Aw damn Fork Parker CEO from Devolver Digital just posted this on twitter.

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BOOM!!! Haha that guy is great.

DragonSworne said:
My girlfriend really really really wants this game, but I don't want to buy it for yet until the server issues are resolved.

The last thing I want to do is give her a lemon.

Is the iusse any better?
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As of last night it was still fucked. I'd wait. Maybe a week or two. This weekend will probably be a disaster.
 
Game Guru said:
I don't know if this has been said yet, but SimCity 2000 is the third best selling game on GoG.com right now, after System Shock 2 and Deponia 2.
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This would've happened regardless of SimCity's problems, though. Sales always pick up for previous games in the series of a newly released game.
 
Gamers need to start speaking with their wallets. Considering all the complaints of the always on connection, there seems to be an awful lot of people who purchased it anyway...
 
Neuromancer said:
But not their boxed copies. So they could have run out of keys. We don't know.
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The caption hints otherwise, but it could be lack of keys, or both. However, do consider that boxed copies will take a day or two to ship and so they could be banking on the server issues being resolved by then, so makes sense to keep selling it. Nobody really knows though to be honest.
 
PsyGuy42 said:
Gamers need to start speaking with their wallets. Considering all the complaints of the always on connection, there seems to be an awful lot of people who purchased it anyway...
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The core game seems to be really solid. They just really fucked up with this whole server thing.

Also, I'm sad because I bet this will push back the mac release even further...
 
Well, if it's anything like any major MMO launch/major update., server issues should clear up in a few days. Maybe.
 
Seriously, that would have been the call from hell. Sounds like it was just a CS agent. "Should I get my manager? Nah man I've got this"
 
I bought a physical copy of Simcity on Amazon a few days before launch. How hard would it be to get a refund?
 
Sweet. Thanks.

It's actually still at the Amazon locker, so theoretically I could just leave it there and they'd pick it up again and give me a refund automatically, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea compared to an explicit refund request.
 
So, as a UK player here, Who has VPN'd and still cannot play.

Aside from the influx of people trying to play just after midnight, will anything actually change?
 
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