[Owain Taggart]

TheGodBen wrote:

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EA has now requested that their online marketing partners stop advertising SimCity so that fewer people will try to buy the game and traffic on the servers will be eased. I can barely believe how absurd this situation has become. Even as someone that has been strongly opposed to the always-online requirement of this game, I never would have imagined that the server problems would be this bad.

That's... truly absurd. Well, if that's their attitude, I could see this game be extremely short-lived, unless they make some heavy changes, but from the sounds of it, being online is too tightly integrated. I really don't see this game lasting very long at this rate.