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EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems

Posted by Unknown on from the replacement-game-broken-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The SimCity launch earlier this week was a complete disaster. Single player games that require an Internet connection to enable forced multiplayer features (as well as acting as a form of DRM) is bad enough, but then to not be prepared for the demand such a popular franchise has, well, that's just dumb, and Lucy Bradshaw, EA's general manager for the Maxis Label, has admitted exactly that." They did not provide much details, but supposedly anyone who has SimCity now should get "a free PC download game from the EA portfolio." They are unrepentant about the always-online requirement though.

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  1. They obviously thought... by Zemran · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... that with all that really bad DRM shai'te no one would actually buy it... so they were not prepared for actual sales.

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  2. We are sorry our products are so shitty. by pclminion · · Score: 4, Funny

    In order to make you feel better, please choose one of our other shitty products. Two shitty games are better than one!

  3. Download a free game??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Isn't that... piracy?!

  4. Pet Hotel Tycoon! by BenJeremy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I expect, given EA's greed, that this will be the "free game" they give to every victim of their ineptitude. ...that or they'll give away free copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic

  5. Re:Too little, too late by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice to know the employees are treated well. Any chance of asking them to do the same for their customers?

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