EA making progress fixing SimCity problems

March 10, 2013

Electronic Arts isn't able to say Game On quite yet to all SimCity fans, but it says it has made "huge progress” fixing problems that tarnished the March 5 release. Its servers are now responding 40 times faster than at launch while the franchise is seeing reduced downtimes. While the server upgrades are good news, the improvements are late coming. For days, players have complained of problems connecting with SimCity’s servers, while some players who did get online lost progress in the game, were kicked out of their games or were forced to suffer long downtimes after each failed connection. Problems with the online-only game were so egregious that at one point Amazon even stopped selling the city-building game . To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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