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SimCity Mac Launch Facing More Problems
The launch of the new SimCity back in March made headlines for the problems caused by the game's always-online DRM. EA Maxis even decided that people who bought the game early deserved a free game for their trouble. They also decided to postpone the launch of the Mac version of the game. Well, the delay is over; SimCity has arrived for Macs, and players are now facing a whole new set of installation and launch problems. "Those issues include a 'mutexAlert' error, which can be resolved by switching the OS to English. Another simply doesn't allow a player to install the game once downloaded. The suggested solution for that is to re-install Origin and opt in to the new Beta version. The game also apparently doesn't currently support Mac OS X 10.7.4 nor the upcoming 10.9 beta release." There are also reports that the game won't function on high-resolution display settings.
I think there's some sort of secret meta-game here. They planned it all along. The actual "winning the game" is getting it to run at all and "playing" is all the troubleshooting. It's actually more of a realtime strategy puzzle game than a simulation, that was just the cover. That or EA absolutely sucks.
Ah yes, the warning sticker, made famous by LJN games during the NES era. If it said LJN, you knew it sucked.
someone that i know that works at EA (actually she work at Maxis) told me that an Experimental Linux port of the game may have 0 Problems if released, but apparently (according to his boss) they wont release it because they have not yet implemented a "good" DRM scheme for Linux.
Well, there goes all the love and goodwill that EA has built up over lo' these many decades.
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This is a Mac afterall.
They have been building up an impressive amount of awards to match.
The fault of management? How can that be. Software is easy right? I mean, I can use the Excel... kinda. How much harder is it than that.
If these are our best and brightest programmers shoveling out this software, can we try the worst and dullest to see if they can do better?
We need more attitudes like this in management if we want to truely succeed as an engineering discipline.
Did anyone expect anything less from this series of disasters?
i see what you mean but it's usually fire, tornados and godzilla coming through and wrecking the place.
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