Downloaded this off Origin the other night.

Great series, poor execution on EA's part. some things that annoyed me:

- Currently it's very buggy and will crash your computer often.
- The city tiles are very small.
- Regions are all pre-made, no more terraforming.
- Over simplified city management.

There are some very cool features though, hopefully EA can fix the issues.

Amazon has stopped selling the downloadable version of SimCity after hundreds of incensed gamers gave the just-launched game one-star reviews.

The SimCity – Standard Edition was removed from Amazon's virtual shelves on Thursday. The always-online game has been mostly unplayable since it launched on Tuesday because of problems with EA's servers.

"Currently unavailable, we don't know when or if this item will be available again," Amazon's product page reads.

Amazon has also published an "important note" which tells fans of the urban-planning simulator that many customers have had issues connecting to the SimCity servers.

This latest version of SimCity needs a stable internet connection to work, unlike previous titles in the series.

EA says this is necessary even for single-player games because the processing for inter-city modelling is done in EA's server farm. Critics of the system have said it is merely a hyper-cynical form of digital rights management.

It is much more difficult to pirate a game if it's built partially around a client-server architecture. But if your servers fail, customers who have stumped-up hard cash for your title can be left out in the cold.

Seems to have crashed and burned



https://help.ea.com/article/why-cant-i- ... to-simcity

Boogie was not happy with the release at all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2NTxSyb_uQ

and his funny version of the rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9VClRhU404

I think I came across these today while watch xjawz videos.