The release of SimCity will likely be studied for years as a case of how not to launch a product, and the story keeps getting stranger and stranger. Six hours ago, an anonymous redditor posting under the name "DisappointedEA" made a thread containing an open letter expressing his disappointment in the company's handling of SimCity. The twist? He reportedly works there.
Good gosh yes! This guy understands how business works. Leadership is the absolute most important thing in any enterprise. And I do not mean the head-of-the-student-government-pointless-do-nothing position that somehow stands for leadership. I mean the John Maxwell type of Leadership where you walk with integrity and practice what you preach. You influence and achieve things with people.
This man should be on their board. Knowing nothing about his business experience, I won't say he should be CEO, but he's got it right when it comes to running a company.
OT: This employee, if real should know those values only apply to the rank and file types. They are meant to keep you from ripping them off, not the other way around.
I was looking forward to this game the most of all the games coming out this year. I knew ea was making the game and even though I think they are a terrible company. I still preordered it. Always DRM is such a dick move.
The funny thing is SimCity is not a bad game at all; it is actually a great game. Just the server nonsense is bothersome. I'm sure it'll all be fixed in a week or two.
SimCity has to be the best thing to happen to gaming since this is all over the media instead of being limited to gaming and tech blogs/sites. Thank you EA for shooting yourself in the foot.
SimCity has to be the best thing to happen to gaming since this is all over the media instead of being limited to gaming and tech blogs/sites. Thank you EA for shooting yourself in the foot.
Right... They'll buy advertising with the media outlets that also put their good press (the free games, when they announce server stability, ect) on the front page. This really won't have much of an effect 6 months from now. Believing otherwise is just being hopeful or simply ignoring how the system works.
Would you have a problem if you just bought the game you've been waiting to play for a long time, and once it's done downloading the servers were down because they couldn't handle the amount of people playing "online" because of the DRM?
Would you have a problem if you just bought the game you've been waiting to play for a long time, and once it's done downloading the servers were down because they couldn't handle the amount of people playing "online" because of the DRM?
You must of never played a MMO, because this same thing happens for pretty much every single one that launches. I mean don't get me wrong, I can see why DRM can be intrusive to some but its not nearly as big of a deal as people make it out to be.
The server issues will be fixed and the game will be smooth as ever and nobody will care after next week. This is just the week the internet is hating on EA, next week we will be back to Apple.
You must of never played a MMO, because this same thing happens for pretty much every single one that launches. I mean don't get me wrong, I can see why DRM can be intrusive to some but its not nearly as big of a deal as people make it out to be.
The server issues will be fixed and the game will be smooth as ever and nobody will care after next week. This is just the week the internet is hating on EA, next week we will be back to Apple.
Sim City was originally a single player game client that EA and Maxis decided to make require always online access DRM. SINGLE PLAYER. Always online access, that consequently ruins a user's experience, on a SINGLE PLAYER game is just atrocious. Its a hell of a big deal and has been for quite some time.
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