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In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download

Posted by timothy on from the drawing-board-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Geek.com: "In what must be a big blow for EA and Maxis, Amazon has stopped selling download copies of the just released SimCity. The game has at time of writing received 833 reviews on Amazon, and has an average rating of just one star. That's because 740 of those are one star reviews. Only 20 people gave it 5 stars. There's few better ways to gauge how a game has been received, and this is pretty damning as to how EA has handled the launch."

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  1. Geek.com doesn't know EA by l0ungeb0y · · Score: -1, Troll

    Amazon deciding to stop selling your product should be ringing alarm bells and costing EA a small fortune in lost revenue.

    The only alarm bells that will be ringing over at EA is that Amazon is full of libelous astro-turfers from "the competition" and internet trolls who are jelly of EA's success. The "poor sales" will be seen as a sign that their new-angled DRM is working since most people are Pirates and can't handle their masterful security scheme.

  2. Re:"Always on" is "Mostly Unusable For Several Wee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doesn't matter because the system works and forces piratetards to buy the game.

    Look at Diablo III -- crashing servers, and thousands of butthurt rage posters screaming "I told you sooooo!". And the game sold 10 million copies because when you remove the piracy option, people will pay for it.

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