I was on the fence about buying SimCity because of all the errors people encountered on the first night so I thought for sure the issues would be worked out after some time. Now, two weeks on, my cousin and I (we both threw in money on it after buying some drugs) have lost city after city to this problem.
The first time it happened, our city went up to about 200,000 people and then my cousin was a moron with austerity to get us out of bond-related debt, causing us to lose 80,000 people and about $1 million. After we get all of that taken care of and get back up to about 190,000, finally making $$$, and we get the error... and could no longer get into our city. It showed it 100% wiped out and trying to enter it resulted in an eternal loading screen.
Again, we reached for the sky and ended up about about 190,000 before, of course, we were really making money and the same error happens.
Now - two weeks later - we have had city after city fail.
EA, we hate your DRM. It's all your fault for this. When Spore came out, the DRM and "always online" BS caused countless problems, so much that after a few weeks I just gave up on it. My nephew tried playing it and with the same problems, he gave up. I tried playing it a year later and the same problems happened.
So between Spore and SimCity, no money of mine went to you. None. Zero. Nothing. 5 years because of your DRM-related problems. 5 years. No cash. I am an avid gamer, buying hundreds of games every year - but not yours. No more. If you don't solve this problem, which far outweighs all the other problems with the game, you will never, NEVER see another dime of mine again. You've already lost my cousin and my nephew.
Despite all the OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE experiences with EA games, we decided to give you a chance to make things right. It seems that 5 years on, you still can't get it right and can't take a hint. EA, you don't understand something fairly simple: releasing a product that could EASILY be called PRE-alpha is going to severely hurt your already horrible reputation.
Do something about this and do it quickly. Gamers are getting really tired of your nonsense. If I buy a game, I am buying it on confidence that it will at least be playable. I, and others like me, have seen repeatedly that buying EA games means it won't be playable for long. Fix. This.
