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EA Disabling "Non-Critical" SimCity Features To Help Server Problems

Posted on Thursday, March 7 @ 08:31:56 Eastern by Keri_Honea


According to EA's forums, they are doing everything they can to help alleviate the server problems that has plagued SimCity players over the last few days. As a result, they are "deploying a hotfix to all servers," meaning that they are going to disable a few "non-critical" features of the game, including leaderboards, achievements, and region filters.

Obviously these won't grossly affect anyone's game, but they fact that they have to do this at all (not to mention, who knows if it will even help), doesn't bode well for EA's image. It especially doesn't help that it's these features that are part of the justification for the always-online DRM in the first place.

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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 8:42 am
    Or, you know, just disable the DRM. Herp derp.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 8:47 am
    Ah the joys of online games or just games in general. Release it broken, wait for people to complain, release a hasty fix afterwards.
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 8:59 am
    lol

    (spamlious)
  • SolidSevchinko78
    SolidSevchinko78

    Joined: Jun 2012
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 9:18 am
    Sounds like EA is blowing smoke up people's butts. I agree with De-Ting up top get rid of the DRM. Always online is not the future of gaming because so far the only thing that seems to happen is what is going on right here. I would like to present EA with Derp Award for pulling a Blizzard and creating another Diablo 3 style fiasco. Congrats EA on this "intelligent" business decision!
  • NecroWolf
    NecroWolf

    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 9:37 am
    EA will never get rid of the DRM, they're too ignorant to realize that is the problem to begin with. To them, they'll see the broken servers as, "HA! WE ARE AMAZING AND MADE THE BEST GAME EVER! LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE, ITS BREAKING THE SERVER!"

    That's pretty much how they'll view this, it won't be a problem with their business strategy. This is just another example of big publishers' own arrogance blinding them to the way business works.

    I dare any employee from EA that's in EA's management to come here, or anywhere, and say otherwise. Always-on DRM isn't service, they're just trying to fool you into thinking it is. Don't believe the lies, and don't buy the game. Don't support it. Just play the old games, they've got more features anyway.
  • Ashalar
    Ashalar

    Joined: Jan 2008
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 11:26 am
    ^
    This.

    After all this nonsense, I've decided to skip SC2k13 and install SC4 instead. Loved the terraforming aspect as much as building cities. Great game, still worth playing.
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
    This is a disaster. EA is likely to be voted worst company of 2013 just as it was in 2012.
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
    I don't know. EA won't release a console version on their online only game with more features and offline mode.
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
    And somewhere, there's a down chemical rep who, after turning down another Bhopal disaster lawyer, just sighed in relief from Jonathan's remark.

    "Man i thought for sure it was gonna be us for sure this year! Thanks again, EA!"
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
    Every online only title deserves to fail. For the future of gaming to be enjoyable this must not be purchased.
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 4:32 pm
    You know what's the worst in all this? The fact that only the maxis employee are admitting the issues behind the DRM and the servers malfunction.
    But for EA? It's like they refuse to admit there's a monkey on their back. Heck, blizzard had the same problem but at least they made an open letter apology for the first weeks' "server error" with Diablo 3, admitting this was the main turn off for new players... but this? Man! Is it so hard for EA to admit the DRM was going too far? Or are they gonna do the ubisoft excuse that "90% of games are pirated" and that we are going to far to complain about "the new norm"? Do they really think that fixing the server downtime will help to promote this game?
    BAH! *goes to GoG.com and reinstall simcity 2000*

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