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Free EA Game as Apology for SimCity
Posted on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 09:36:08 Eastern

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http://www.ea.com/news/a-simcity-update-and-something-for-your-trouble?sourceid=Origin_AFF_LS315&c=TnL5HPStwNw&LSsiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-_bUtfEocdmECC_52X3

Looks like EA is doing damage control big time, offering a free EA title to anyone who has activated SimCity by March 18th. The article says any game in the EA portfolio, so it is the assumption that this includes brand new games like Crysis 3.

I personally was holding off (and am glad) on SimCity, but I'm tempted to grab a copy in order to get Crysis 3 for free now, a game that I was more interested in buying in the first place.

Those of you who have bought and been frustrated with it already, is this enough? I think that this is quite generous especially coming from a company that everyone complains is only in it to make money.

Of course, the real way to please owners of SimCity would be to simply turn off the DRM that is causing all the problems, but they don't seem interested in doing that any time soon.

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sandineyes
Joined: May 2008

Posted: Mar 10th, 2013 at 7:57 pm
Yeah, I think it is pretty good of them. I really don't think what has happened with SimCity has been any worse than what happened with Diablo III, and I don't remember getting any free stuff from Blizzard. This is also kind of nice, since I got a $20 promo code for pre-ordering the game as well. I am not sure that you will be able to get Crysis 3, though. It is left rather ambiguous if you get to choose a game, or if they are going to offer a specific game, or a list of games. It seems somewhat unlikely they would give away another 60 dollar game as an apology.

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Fieperskaivu
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Mar 15th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Just saw there's a big EA sale right now on green man gaming, Crysis 3 for $40 so I think it's definitely a possibility.

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Sinlaeshel
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Mar 16th, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Maybe the article changed, but right now it says "a free PC download game from the EA portfolio". This doesn't necessarily imply ANY game, or that you even have a choice in game. I suppose we'll find out March 18th!

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LinksOcarina
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Mar 17th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
I would like to point out that this is complete damage control regardless of what the intent is. Also the only way they can avoid being sued for breaking their EULA.

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