“I’m happy to report that the core problem with getting in and having a great SimCity experience is almost behind us.”
The Best words I have heard in a long time. I am of course referring to the problems Maxis has been experiencing with its new SimCity game.
So what exactly was the problem, basically in stupid English the servers crashed and caused too many people logged on at once, which is more than they expected. I say stupid, they say “Dumb” actual words from Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw. I think a reason for this was because of the not so successful previous game SimCity Societies and the fact it was only line play. Kind of makes me hope that Elder Scrolls online doesn’t crash either, that would be horrible :O
Okay so what now? Well a blog release on their website yesterday told us that..
“players have been able to connect to their cities in the game for nearly 8 million hours of gameplay time and we’ve reduced game crashes by 92% from day one. A combination of optimizing our server architecture and response times, deploying these enhancements on both a series of new and the original servers and issuing a few critical client updates has achieved getting virtually everyone into the game and, once in, having a great time building cities and sharing regions.”
She noted that she had hoped that all would be sorted on the night of the 9th but that they need a few more days to have everything all sorted, I feel sorry for them, maybe because I am a huge fan of the series, but also their apology was so heart felt and made me want to give her a big hug, Sad I know.
Another thing that made me go awwwh, was there apology included a free game, I know right.
“and to get us back in your good graces, we’re going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio. On March 18, SimCity players who have activated their game will receive an email telling them how to redeem their free game.”
So I am still in love with Maxis the question is are you? and is this little blip going to stop from buying it? let me know, actually if you have anything bad to say just don’t bother, I can moderate the comments.
JMK
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