EA Forums are under Siege

I am sure a lot of people who bought or got their copies of SimCity today are not having good time with game... I got mine an hour ago and couple minutes not far from now I started my fabulous travel through wasteland. People with physical copies are not able to see their game in "MyGames" window, in Origins. It is visible only under your profile. What did people do after seeing such a thing? Of course they started spamming EA forums like crazy with the same topics over and over again. I hope EA, or Maxis, or whoever is responsible for this will repair it. It's my third game in a row when I cannot play the same day I got it. It shameful to let it go like this, specially when you hear this is a most single player game(most of it). When D3 launched Blizzard wrote some things to make people calm for the wait, or that they are trying to find the issue, but with EA forums I cannot find such an answer. Only riot and burning flags. Well at least I know that not only SimCity has problems... it seems that The Sims University has almost the same issues.

This reminds me a lot of the Diablo 3 launch.

Let's burn EA.

Wat?

I have some sticks I never use..

It is pretty ridiculous that some people (myself included) can't even download the game on release day after they pre-ordered, let alone play it without issue. Could have been easily solved by allowing preloading, but EA decided to drive a car with flat tires for some reason.

Lol origin

So glad I bought this worthless physical copy. I mean why did I think installing from a disc would avoid these problems, silly me.

I saw this happening a mile away, why I canceled my pre-order.

Origin supports preloading, pretty sure...

It does, correct. But for some reason they decided not to allow it for SimCity specifically.

Can anyone confirm there are also still queues to get into the game?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/05/gamers-line-up-to-play-simcity/

Got to love these required online games at launch, I am not falling for it anymore.

@bourbon_warrior said:

I like it when I see sense on the internet

I can wait....

Good job guys.

Keep this industry fresh by buying games on launch before finding out if it's good. It's really fucking funny that DMC fans are the only ones with self control to not buy stuff they said they wouldn't buy.

You got what you paid for. Everyone said it would happen.

Really disappointing. Forget problems with connecting to a game, I can't even install the thing. Origin says the game isn't released yet. Uh, what? Still extremely excited to get in there and play this game though.

You would think they could just rent extra servers for launch week.

I got a physical copy, after entering my CD key into origin it proceeded to "installation failed". Going through the install process again resulted in it telling me my key had been activated already. It took like 15min for origin to register that I had activated my key. But it eventually did and i'm installing the game now.

Right, because installing and downloading the actual game is a determining factor of the quality.

@mstrmnybgs: We all knew from Diablo III shit won't work at all for most people at launch. Even Reddit and NeoGAF are laughing at the people who bought it on launch, everyone knew this would happen.

Remember why everyone hates Always On DRM? Yeah, this is why. It's bullshit.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/15/9335158.page - well... I don't know EA... it's a little bit... bad...

"You knew this was coming Pete."

I wanna say I'm surprised... No wait, I don't. It was obvious this was going to happen. Silly, silly people.

I think it's hilarious that you have to sit in a queue to play a singleplayer game. Good fucking job, EA.

im kinda not buying this game.

I love a good nerd-rage shitstorm.

This is why people pirate not dealing with this shit

Who could possibly not have seen this coming?

@professionallytrainedrapist said:

Look out everybody! One of the PC Master Race done come here to lern us sumthin'.

Wait... this is on PC and the result of always on DRM. What does this have to do with consoles or DLC?

Some people are even saying that people who pre order can not get into the game wile people who JUST picked it up are able to log in fine.

Kinda glad I won't get my copy till this weekend, bummer to hear about all this shit. Again.

Fuck off please you pretentious passive aggressive buzz kill.

Nothing, but, as we all know, consoles are the root of all evil and blahblahblah mouse and keyboard fps something something something

Not sure but to answer: Consoles are "hardened DRM platforms". As bad as it is on PC with the always on stuff, it is much more strict on consoles.

Sure am glad I didn't jump on this one. Confirmation bias!

I was with you up until "You got what you paid for."

Bummer some people are having problems. I downloaded the game pretty quickly last night and played for a good six hours straight with only a few problems.

This seems like more Internet Freakout to me. I downloaded the game 30 minutes after midnight last night and played for 3 hours with no trouble. Not saying some people aren't having issues, but until the launch day smoke clears I doubt we will know the actual score on what is busted and what works. I'm not a fan of DRM or Origin, but that aside I've had nothing really to complain about. That could change at anytime I guess, but I'm not near my home PC at the moment.

I have the problem where my game wont unlock until March 7th at 4:01PM. Im in California and the game should have been out today. That needs some explaining.

Well that's a bit strange.

Play for 3 hours today and no issues... People are really blowing this thing out of proportion. I agree its shitty theres issues at all, but you would swear EA shit on our lawn the way some people are acting.

@dudy80: I agree. I played for about 2 hours without any issues (occasional disconnect/reconnect within game), but considering games like Diablo 3 were literally unplayable for about a week, I'd say this was a good launch.

Other then trying to install the game being a nightmare because my Origin install was fucked, I have had zero problems playing the game until a few min ago when I quit the game to check something and now it won't connect to any servers. Have not seen any ques and have not had any other problems. Still think it's insulting that there's no single player option however, and the tiny maps really suck and hindering the games enjoyment. All not having a single player does is inconvenience people and offers zero upside to the user. It's fine if you want an online component to it, but make it optional. Always online DRM is BS.

I played 4 hours right at launch and had no issues, same today.

How so? I can play all of my consoles games (those without multiplayer) without being connected can't say the same for a lot of PC games even when using a service like steam you still need to be connected unless you enable de offline option right?

This is the saddest form of fanboyism I've seen in a long time. Also there's no way your username is okay.

not on the same scale whatsoever

TL,DR: shitty launch, shitty game design philosophy.

Servers just went down for like half an hour and when they came up the games I had made are all now gone. Anyone else have this happen? I was going to delete them to restart anyways so I'm not mad about it, but I'm wondering if this is something happening for other folks.

There was another thread where a guy lost 2 hours of progress because the game didn't save when it was supposed to.